Monday Update and POWA

Parade of WEEKLY adventures!

We spent the entire weekend partying! Between our communities Fall Festival, football, the festival's parade and more.



Most of the kids activities were a wash due to the rainy weather, but they still had 2 party jumpers and some carnival games. We only had a small window of fun time on Saturday because of the Prince's football game, but they managed to get filthy and bounce them selves silly!

The parade on Sunday was a huge success, except for the rain again. It had fire departments, cheerleaders, football players (mine!), marching bands, Shriners, horses, even a float! There were prizes, but we didn't ever hear who won them.

I'm not sure what they are raising money for this year, but the last 2 years the committee made sizable donations to the new playground project (my hubby got the grant to get that ball rolling, so we were invested!).

Weekly Menu Plan
Breakfast for dinner, clean out the fridge night, mystery freezer stuff, spaghetti, hot dogs & burgers. No idea what order, depends on the activities!!!

POWA -
Monday

• Work
• scrape more siding at my Mom's
• laundry

Tuesday

• unload truck of lumber for MIL's wheelchair ramp
• The Princess is back to school
  
• paint at Mom's
• Clean children's bedrooms, they are gross

Wednesday

• Work
• Laundry
• Paint at Mom's
• Vacuum
• Clean Bathrooms

Thursday

• Paint at Mom's
• School for Princess
  
• Clean desks
• Vacuum couches, ewww

Friday

• Work
• School for Princess
  
• Paint at Mom's
• Shopping

Saturday

• Football Game - home

Stumble It!

Tackle it Tuesday #18

I am tackling a few things right now!
~ My desk, the pile is stuff, but it is in file folders!
1. Coupons
2. Resumes
3. To be filed
4. Mail

The rest is mostly cleared off! WooohooO!

~ The house

• 1. We inherited my parents hot tub, so this week has been all about cleaning it, setting it up, filling it, only to find it needs a part we have to have shipped.... Hurry up and wait, I just love it!
• 2. I have a home inspection today with social services. The kids I babysit for are "funded" so I had to set up a "daycare" account. They are just coming to make sure I have a "safe" environment.
• 3. Laundry - mostly putting it away, I really need to stop being bad at that part of it. I don't mind the washing & drying...
• 4. Surfaces - I know they are evil, but nothing is sacred here, not even chairs or the couch. If it's flat they will put something on it!

~Hamster cages

• We lost Mater to a prison escape last month, this week we lost Princess to an unknown illness we have given her a proper burial. But now I have 3 empty hamster cages to deal with. Think I'll just put them in the basement until we are ready for new ones. Maybe the chipmunks can use them as condos.

~Lists

1. We have recently made a HUGE decision to sell this house in 3 years and buy my parents. They are building a new house on property they own. I have a feeling that I will spend the next 3 years finding ways to fix up this house without spending much money & convincing my Mom to let me take down the blue wallpaper on her dime LOL! We are already working together on a new exterior paint scheme. Of course I will be the one painting! Oh yea & the carpet in the kitchen HAS to go!
2. I start an out of the home job on Monday! It's part time office help, at a non-profit organization. It's flexible, I get to do all the stuff I like in an office setting & I get paid for it!
3. So my lists are all the things I have to get done in the next week, and all the things the house NEEDS in the next 3 years! It really could be 2 years, but we've also thought about not selling this house & keeping it as rental property. It also depends on how fast my Parents new house gets built. It's a DIY job, so it won't be up in 2 weeks! But they have already started hard core acquiring of lumber.

~Football practice
~Cleaning out the freezers & fridge this week, mostly to avoid shopping, but also because there is all kinds of weird stuff in there!

It's going to be a busy week here at the Money Pit. You can check out other great tackles at 5 Minutes for Mom.

Stumble It!

Parade of Weekly Adventures 8-4 to 8-10

Mini Camp MTW 6-8

Zone 2 Kitchen missions
~Scrub down counters
~Clean out under sink
~Declutter Food storage, plastic stuff
~sweep & mop
EXTRAS
~ 27 fling boogie
~ wipe down outside of fridge, fingerprints, ewww

CVS/Walgreens/shopping lists
Check the school supplies

Daily
~Laundry
~Dishes
~Dust something
~Vacuum something
~Cook
~mail/file
~swish & swipe bathrooms
~email/30DC/Blog

Library program Monday - making tiles
Library program Wed - dance

Summer Rec M-W
Golf Th



Stumble It!

PODA update

So, it's been too humid to weed, it wouldn't be so bad if there was any amount of shade to be had! That's the only bad with full sun exposure! And of course since it's on my list of things to do I haven't touched the apartment side of the house, I did paint the trim on our side porch though. I even washed out my brush and container! Woohoo!!! We are preparing to re-do the screen and install a sliding screen door, so that needs to be painted before we hang screening.

I am off to spray paint one of my wicker chairs, then I need a break!

Daily
Laundry
Dishes
Food
summer Rec for boy
27 Fling boogies
surfaces, surfaces, surfaces!



Weekly Zone Chores
Zone 5 is the living room and apartment side yard, usually there are only a day or 2 here, but this week it's 5 days.
1. Flat surfaces
2. Detailed vacuuming
3. dust knick knacks
4. dust trims and cobwebs
5. put something pretty in the room - like flowers

outside
1. weed around steps
2. scrape siding on entry
3. if weather is nice paint


Special weekly things
~Make sure carport/tent is ready for neighbors to borrow & us to set up Thursday
~RSVP for wedding
~golf on Thursday
~art program Wednesday
~sweep
~mop kitchen
~mop bathroom


Menu Plan Monday

Our Menu:

I'll be making pasta (penne and canned sauce), pizza (crust is in the freezer), grilled chicken legs (probably with home made BBQ sauce), freezer pickles, boxed mac and cheese (with peas and tuna), somehow using up the lunch meat (grilled salami and provolone sounds good to me!)!!!


Stumble It!

Weekly PODA 7-28 to 8-1

Think I'll start doing a weekly check list instead of a daily, sooooo many things repeat!!!

Daily
Laundry
Dishes
Food
summer Rec for boy
27 Fling boogies
surfaces, surfaces, surfaces!



Weekly Zone Chores
Zone 5 is the living room and apartment side yard, usually there are only a day or 2 here, but this week it's 5 days.
1. Flat surfaces
2. Detailed vacuuming
3. dust knick knacks
4. dust trims and cobwebs
5. put something pretty in the room - like flowers

outside
1. weed around steps
2. scrape siding on entry
3. if weather is nice paint


Special weekly things
~Make sure carport/tent is ready for neighbors to borrow & us to set up Thursday
~RSVP for wedding
~golf on Thursday
~art program Wednesday

~sweep
~mop kitchen
~mop bathroom


Menu Plan Monday

Our Menu:

I'll be making pasta (penne and canned sauce), pizza (crust is in the freezer), grilled chicken legs (probably with home made BBQ sauce), freezer pickles, boxed mac and cheese (with peas and tuna), somehow using up the lunch meat (grilled salami and provolone sounds good to me!)!!!

Friday Parade of Events 7-25

We are having friends over tonight so we are in crisis cleaning mode! It's not so bad, but still disheveled from the hamster search. We haven't given up, but the probability of his return is low. My biggest fear is that he managed to join up with the troupe of chipmunks that torment us and have an elaborate tunnel system in our back yard.

~Mow
~Laundry (always)
~Dishes
~Dinner - Friends are bringing, I'm not supposed to make anything, I'm sure I'll find something to make
~Room Rescues, one room at a time (I might play the flylady crisis cleaning podcast for motivation
~Sweep front & side porches
~clear off outdoor tables (toys and cups from the kids)
~find seating
~set up fire pit
~vacuum DR rugs
~clear surfaces in the house, put stuff AWAY
~Make PB bread for football bake sale, if I start now I'll have a few done by Saturday to drop off.
~zone 4 declutter 15 minutes
~zone 4 mission - re make your bed, but I don't wash sheets until Monday again, so I'll probably find something else!

Lisa K http://thefrugalmomma.blogspot.com

Thursday Parade of Adventures 7-24

~Golf lessons for boy& hubby (he just watches) The Prince has natural talent. He can drive the ball farther than I can already & he earned his first $2 at the last lesson, so he's already a pro. They had a putting competition, he beat everyone in the class (even the 13 year old). So he may not be the next Tiger, but club pros make a decent living!

~Laundry (ALWAYS)
~Dishes, sink & dishwasher
~Hamster still MIA
~Check garden, pull a few weeds
~Dinner, I have no idea yet, thinking chicken helper since I have a box & chicken handy!

~Spend 15 minutes decluttering zone 4 (master bedroom)
~Zone 4 mission - 15 more minutes attacking the clothes pile
~Zone 4 mission (Thursday) - clear off dressers

~Remake The Princess's bed, she had a potty accident yesterday ;-(.
I can't complain it's her first real bed accident. Hers were usually issues with clothing removal standing in the bathroom!

~figure out who has my hubby's immunization record, since his Dr.'s office doesn't, useless people, he's only been a patient there since the late 80s...

~Find surfaces in the house, they all seem to be cluttered with something...
~Run to the store (or drive), need wiper blades for the van, deposit a few $s into my new bank account, add $ to my cell phone, etc, etc, etc.

Wednesday Parade of Events

Yesterday we washed two vehicles and cleaned them inside and out, so most of my list didn't get completed, started, just not finished. I'm ok with that though because my VAN LIVES!!! We traded the old car for the towing and $ off the repairs of the van. So I have my van back, after 11 months of waiting. We took it to a different mechanic and a week later & for $500 less it is on the road! WooHoo. So after sitting in a weedy lot for 11 months I needed to clean the van inside and out. Plus my brother is taking the Blazer we've been borrowing to Canada later today, so I washed it & vacuumed that up (not really for him, but my kids are messy in vehicles).

~Summer Rec for boy
~Laundry
~Dishes, sink & dishwasher
~Hamster still MIA
~Weed garden (this is a new daily chore, yuck!)
~Pick beans
~Dinner is pizza at Baseball awards
~hubby off to job interview

Never made it upstairs to declutter the bedroom yesterday
~Spend 15 minutes decluttering zone 4 (master bedroom)
~Zone 4 mission - 15 minutes attacking the clothes pile
~Zone 4 mission (Wed) - clear off the nightstands

clear off and wipe down counters. (finish, got this started yesterday)
Vacuum up flour I left it for an extra day but I'm tired of the icky mess.

Calls -
Dr.s office to get the Prince a football physical before the 11th. OF course they scheduled the group ones tonight during the baseball awards.

Lisa K http://thefrugalmomma.blogspot.com

Tuesday Parade of Events

~Summer Rec for boy
~Laundry
~Dishes, sink & dishwasher
~Hamster still MIA - put out fresh food, vacuum boys room (we think evidence was left behind)
~Weed garden if it stops raining long enough
~Pick beans
~Cook dinner - Chicken (last night ended up being steak on the grill, hubby cooked)
~Spend 15 minutes decluttering zone 4 (master bedroom)
~Zone 4 mission - 15 minutes attacking the clothes pile, unfortunately I have one, sigh.
clear off and wipe down counters.
Vacuum up flour (supposed tip to track hamster, now it's just tracking the kids)

Lisa K http://thefrugalmomma.blogspot.com

Monday Parade of Events

Summer Rec for the boy
Blog
weed garden (lower) - take pics
Sweep side porch
Dishes
Laundry
Find missing hamster
Cook dinner - chicken
spend 15 minutes decluttering kitchen
spend 15 minutes decluttering zone 4 (Master bedroom)




Trim and pull shrubs by side porch - replace pulled ones with something flowering, hydrangea maybe & ground cover.

Cookie Dough is Made

I made the dough for my cut-outs & Chocolate Italian Cookies.
We also got the fridge cleaned out & the desk moved, the kitchen is mostly cleared out I only have one corner of piles to clear out then it will be done! Woohoo! I'll be folding laundry & going through a stack of papers while we watch tv tonight.

Things we didn't get done because we completely rearranged the living room AGAIN.

1. Sand the bathroom walls & repeat mud process, then sand again.

4. Laundry, laundry & more laundry. I took 2 days off from the load a day & now I am buried under Mt. Washmore.

5. Clear out kitchen of all non-essentials.

6. Take box to Salvation Army or other place.

7. Wrap more presents

8. Sew our Christmas head bands, cut fabric for more headbands.

9. Get Real Tree, set up inside

Christmas prep.

My PODA for the weekend (Parade of Daily Adventures for you non-FLYers!)
1. Sand the bathroom walls & repeat mud process, then sand again.

2. Bake 2 batches of the PB kiss cookies, dough is already made, now I just have to bake the cookies.

3. Clean out fridge

4. Laundry, laundry & more laundry. I took 2 days off from the load a day & now I am buried under Mt. Washmore.

5. Clear out kitchen of all non-essentials.

6. Take box to Salvation Army or other place.

7. Wrap more presents

8. Sew our Christmas head bands, cut fabric for more headbands.

9. Get Real Tree, set up inside

10. Move comupter desk & clear off desktop

Next Week
1. Bathroom Ceiling, drywall, tape & mud, sand, paint whole bathroom

2. Clean Bathroom, hang new shower curtain

3. Paint, cut & hang trim for front room

4. Organize book shelves in front room

5. Laundry room clean up

6. Move chairs around for party seating

7. start on Christmas side dishes

8. Finish shopping Walmart, CVS trip

9. Clean carpet in playroom

10. touch up floor with stain in front room

11. clean hamster cages.

12. Fling Boogie like a crazy person!

13. Finish decorating house (after all the major remodeling is done!)

I'm sure there's a ton more!!!

Wednesday...**Updated 5:30PM!

It is anti-procrastination Wednesday in the FlyLady world. I am going to clean my kitchen!

The mission that I have chosen to accept is to clear off my side table & counter. Most of my small appliances are out on the counter & the side table is where EVERTYTHING gets dropped when we walk through the door.

I am also going to:
Painting the ceiling in the upstairs kitchen
Touch up bathroom walls
3rd coat of gloss on cabinet doors
Take hardware off above fridge cupboard before painting
Install repaired window (with dh)
Start priming the floor (front of windows & inside of closet)
Laundry (1 load)
Make spaghetti sauce w/meatballs for dinner
~I bought the meatballs, only because it was cheaper per pound than ground to MYO, what is up with that???
Vacuum the Princess's room & living room

My To do for Thursday is:
Laundry
Dishes
zone mission (kitchen)
finsih kitchen cupbaords for hanging
wash mini blinds upstairs
put up window frost film upstairs bathroom
clean floor & tub in bathroom upstairs
WALK with my sister
scrub my tub out with comet & soak toys overnight in bleach water

ADD
VACUUM house
Paint kitchen floor, first coat


Left to do in apartment
Move stove upstairs, convert back to gas
get washer & install
buy 2 mini blind to replace broken ones
clean!