FLYbabies Friday

[Shannaratiger]

babysteps4
Hope no one minds me starting this thread.

[damewashalot]

Hello not been on for so long and not been flying either Help!

House is a state, don't know where to start, well I do, shine my sink right?

So basicly I have realised it's the support on this thread that was helping so much, can I come back please?

How are you all?

[Shannaratiger]

damewashalot I think we're all in the same boat.
Sink got shined last night and then found a couple more bits of washing up.
I'm dressed, including indoor shoes.
Yesterdays washing in the tumble dryer now.
Todays washing in the machine.
Everyone has eaten breakfast so off to wash up and shine the sink.
Hello to clemette giddykipper TMH & hippipotame Jas Trinity Flowery great to see us all going back to babysteps together.
Anne glad I'm not the only one who doesn't get clothes out the night before, except dd's school uniform. We all have so few clothes their's not much choice anyway!
Really am off to shine sink and get dc's dressed and dd off to school.
BB after school run.

[flowerybeanbag]

Morning all, am dressed, no shoes. DH got my clothes out for me this morning while I was in the shower, bless him.

Sink is shiny, kitchen surfaces wiped and floor swept, can't put wash on as nanny is using machine, am now working.

[LavenderTea]

Morning Shannaratiger, Damewashalot and Ruby,

I am baby stepping too, so hoping you will take me into your cult....

My sink is shining and I am dressed.
Breakfast done and washed up and sink shiny again.
First load of washing done and into dryer.
Beds stripped and changed.
Cleaned out fridge inside and out ( yesterdays job again)

To Do today
Take ds to nursery and dd to baby group.
Mop kitchen floor
and
15 minute hot trot around kitchen.
15 minute work over in lounge
Tidy and dust/hoover children.s bedroom
Quick hoover rest of house
Oh and shop online and work out something for dinner.

Go to ikea tonight to buy a toddler bed.

Happy Fly day

[LavenderTea]

Morning floery beanbag... cross posted there.

lucky you with such a lovely dh. hope he got you something nice to wear.

[LavenderTea]

Sorry that was flowery beanbag oops

[TheMadHouse]

Morning all

lesson 5 - write it down bit of an american thing I missed this one out

hoptpots this one is intrinsic in the fly ethos.

what is a hotspot

I have quite a few of these - the area by the front door where I put the post, the kitchen table, the magazines in the downstairs loo

So we should all have shiney sinks, be dressed, read our reminders and be ready to take on the day.

I am busy this morning - as always - we are off to music and movement and then back for lunch and to take DS1 to preschool

[flowerybeanbag]

Good lord I can't do that write it down thing, that's way too vomit-worthy.

I will do a hotspot later though.

Lavender DH is very welltrained good with clothes, got it spot on today.

[TheMadHouse]

I couldnt bring myself to stoop that low either

[LavenderTea]

Morning Mad,

Thanks for the links. Me niether, with the write it down thingie. I think this is where I started to slip and drift away from the baby steps last time......Ooooooh Feel myself drifting away again....
Does it work if you miss things like that out??

Maybe I will jsut get Dh to write something nice about me....

Righto off to baby group with dd and grandma..

Even got makeup on this morning thanks to mum entertaining dc this morning Yeahhhhh!!

Bit of lippy and mascara and I honestly can say I look like a real person again!!

There I did it I wrote down a positive from the negative thing I thought at 6 am this morning when I looked like absolutely sh**

Baby Steps for me....

[LavenderTea]

Any one vomited yet ???? LOL

See you later

[bella29]

Hello there you lovely people!

Had a manic night and having a manic day but will try not to let the side down

Done

up
dressed
children to school
big pot of coffee made

To do

walk dogs
hoover (left over from yesterday - tsk, tsk)
mop floors
washing
put washing away
more coffee

Have a good one, everybody

[AnneOfAvonlea]

Morning all.

Understanding hotspots very important.

My sink is still shiny, I am dressed and I am going to do a hotspot now.

[WhereTheWildThingsWere]

Morning everyone,

Am dressed
Beds made
Bathroom S and S
Sink shiny
Dog walked
Wash on

To do
Wash out
Make scones
Clean kitchen
Hot spots
Hoover

Better get off my arse and get giong eh?

[clemette]

Morning all. At work, but all this talk of hotspots reminds me I have to find somewhere for Dh to put all of his "stuff" that is just gathering on the arm of the sofa. May snaffle some box files from work...

Am i the only one that seems to think that if I put my clutter in a box it just disappears?

[TheMadHouse]

clemette What sort of stuff - Ideally you need a perm solution for it. I gave DH a wicker basket by the door for keys, wallet and phone it works great. I have one too.

LavenderTea Stick with it

bella29 You seem to be doing well and remeber anything is better than nothing

WhereTheWildThingsWere Yum scones

Ruby Boiler could be anything from about £1000 I think?

Waves to everyone else.

How are we doing extingusing our hots spots. They always want to make me say "what is a hotspot not" - "A good spot" in a brucey stylee

[bythepowerofgreyskull]

morning all,

wow lots of people I don't recognise..
arse about your boiler RR do you have any boiler insurance?

have done morning routine then sat on my arse for far too long.
need to go and buy nice things from the deli to take to book group tonight.
need to go to local health food shop to buy museli ingredients for messy play on monday

have had a great letter from the bank this morning.. they are passing on the full 1.5% intrest rate cut so new mortgage payments are £60 per month less!!!! yippeee

to those who aren't sure about flying - I have been doing it for years.. the main thing I like about it is you just have to jump in and get on with it.. don't think about the fact you haven't done anything for weeks.. just start doing something.. anything is better than nothing, before you know it things become habit.

Morning routine for me is now on auto pilot.

I don't live in a show house and things get messed up but I am not seeking perfection, just dont want to be embarrassed about someone dropping by

[giddykipper]

Right

DSD to school
All dressed
Forgot my breakfast
Sink still shiny
Played with DS
Washing load on

DS now asleep
So I'm eating a toastie and then I'm going to wipe down the kitchen and hit a hotspot

[bythepowerofgreyskull]

sounds like you have had a good morning GK

[clemette]

TMH, it is newspapers/magazines he is determined he wants to read and bills he needs to sort. To be fair there is no room in the house to put it because the house is full of my own daft stoarge solutions for my/children/house stuff.
A wicker basket that can be pushed under the sofa may be an idea...

[LavenderTea]

Just come back from baby group. DD asleep so just nipping on before I make our lunch.

RR we had a new boiler fitted and 2 radiators and system flushed last week . For everything and fitted it cost just over £2000 .... You have my sympathies. But it is lovely to have a warm house again, and hot water...

Okay

Need to hotspot kitchen and lounge today. Oh I already said that on my list...

Let me enlightened you with my lounge hotspot details...

I have 2 basket though that are currently in the lounge (moved from the kitchen and previously in bathroom.) anyways they get filled with stuff I don't know where else to put and they really bug me so I just keep moving them from place to place depending on what room I am giving a big clean to that day. . They Look appalling in the lounge/bathroom/ and kitchen shelf can't take the weight any more so really need to empty them today. That is my mission. If I can successful rehouse or throw everything from the two baskets and not refill them or rehome the baskets in the bedroom ( which is the potential next home for them) this afternoon I will treat myself to a huge bottle glass of red vino tonight.... and if I can't I will probably drink it anyway...

Any tips about the everfilling/moving baskets scenario most appreciated...

LTxx

[swanriver]

Quite agree, it's the panic which comes from not knowing what to do first, because there are so many things to do. And you think, will I ever get out of the house to take the rubbish to the dump, if I start tidying? Don't think, act. Mother of five, not me, said she only does two things to keep on course. Laundry and prepare enormous evening meal in morning. Then once these things are done, she feels calm and able to fit the rest of her chores in, if she does them at all. I find problem is clothes everywhere, waiting to be ironed(?) to be put away to be washed, some not quite dirty enough to wash but too dirty to put back in drawer. 15 mins blitz is a brilliant trick for ditherers, who start reading novels mid tidy. Or magazines which they are about to throwaway. Or cookbooks they are about to cook from.
This morning I have achieved nothing, apart from eat lunch, talk to friend on phone, get dchildren to school in good mood (dcs), put the right things in their bookbags, stop cat putting something revolting on carpet. Drunk several cups of coffee. BUT I'VE CLEARED BREAKFAST TABLE and hung out washing. Now abandoning sink as unshiny, catty kitchen and tidying masterbedroom hotspot. Prepared supper last night. Although dh won't eat chicken casserole. He will have some plain mince.