Wednesday Fly-

[EHM]

Mission

Please feel free to add baby steps, anything else you feel may assist flyers new & old.
I also see there is a Working Mums Fly Thread

TMH hope ds is on the mend & you too bianca luda I have a picture frame with magnetic cats on it if you would like for dd's room?

[scattyspice]

morning EHM .

Working mums fly thread? I'd rather stick with you ladies (I feel quite at home here). Nobody notices I don't do much actual flying LOL (but I do stick to my rountines).

To do
buy food
ds reading/writing
laundry
hoover
phone mum.

[sagacious]

Morning scatty and ehm

Bit sleepy this morning, dd was up in the night with earache

DS is trying to find his bow and arrow (fancy dress circa NYE 2007) so I have cowboy and indian stuff all over the spare room.

To Do:

Packed lunch for ds and school run
Take DD (if she's well enough)to intro session for school this afternoon
Prepare PTA speech for new parents
Sort out PTA accounts
Finish ironing and put away
Hoover upstairs
Sort pile of paperwork

BBL (just seen time !)

[EHM]

Morning Scatty nobody notices here my flying either. Makes me feel better though & keeps me organised.

My first list in a long time:In no particular order.
1 load in wm-empty washing basket
small amount of ironing
plan meals for weekend-sil & nephew here
take ellie for haircut & me eyebrow wax
get us both dressed(obviously once I am dressed)
s & s bathroom
pick dh up from aiport
pay window cleaner, bin cleaner & preschool for Ellie's Xmas party.
dust/wipe surface in spare room & window/sil inside/out

DH away with work so house is very tidy, as I left it before I went to bed last night

Have a good day all.x

[EHM]

x post saga hope dd's ear is ok.

[hippipotami]

Good morning I missed yesterday because I had a friend over all day. A fab day was had, with a bracing walk in the woods with the dog adn then home for apple pie and coffee

Anyway, have my list for today, with all my hotspots and 2 minute rescues. Also need to do the weekly grocery shop today adn go to the petshop for dogfood.

Don't need to do the mission - Dh and I don't have that many clothes so our wardrobe is tidy all the time.
Could do the dc's wardrobe though

[LavenderTea]

Good Morning

Thanks for the thread EHM and morning. Morning to scatty and saga . Hope dd's ear is better today.

I haven't done much flying for the last two days.
Mum has gone, and I was enjoying the freedom of life without her again. ( meeting friends/catching up on desparate housewives)

Morning Hippi your yesterday sounds idyll too ( much nicer than mine actually Tee Hee)
I'll follow your inspirational lead and get a move on today too though my wardrobe does need decluttering of all my dh's 10 year old t-shirts.

Do you think it is reasonable to throw them out while he is at work ??.

[LavenderTea]

Argh did I say that or think that about Dh's t shirts...??

[TheMadHouse]

Thanks for the thread EHM - I still have a migrane, but will soldier on I was in bed at 7 with the boys last night.

So Babaysteppers, today we need to add

check out ask flylady

control journal

So our routines should be like this:

Morning Routine

• Get up and get dressed doing your hair and face
• Make your bed
• Looking at your posted reminders in the kitchen and bathroom
• Reading 2 minutes of reminders
• Recognizing the negative voices and changing them
• Put out your Hot Spots for 2 minutes
• 5 Minute Room Rescue (pick any room in the house) set your timer and go!
• Laundry
• Mission

Before Bed Routine

• Keep your sink shining
• Lay out your clothes for tomorrow
• Put out your Hot Spot
• Laundry
• set a regular bedtime and stick to it

[bigbaubleeyes]

Can I ask ladies - I have read about the fly lady.

I am just comming out of a bout of mild depression (I do self help) but one of things that really gets me is I 'let the house go' and I am normally very house proud but - I have a big back log of jobs to do and plan to start today.

Do you ladies use this to keep you motivated and on top of stuff, as I normally don't need any sort of system I just 'do'. When I am down I spend a lot of time worrying about housework (i know irrational) and when I am good I realy enoy doing it?

Its like i have a very strange relationship with my housework?

[Countingthegreyhairs]

Morning all! Great threads these ...

May I please join you for two or three days?

I have flown in the past - am going to start again (consistently) in January when we stop travelling - but in the meantime my house is a wreck and today I am unexpectedly at home with dd5 who has a bad cold so I need to:

1. tidy master bedroom
2. gather laundry and odd socks from their hiding places and sort and wash, dry and iron (3 loads per day for 3 days)
3. prepare office laundry to be collected
4. quick tidy bathroom and kitchen (they are messy not dirty)
5. proper tidy and clean of sitting room
6. clean out guinea pigs
7. tidy and sort 'craft' cupboard - groan

Need akickupthebum some motivation

[Hello Hippi - how is yr walking injury? - better I hope]

[Countingthegreyhairs]

well, the 'striking out' nearly worked ...

[tigger32]

morning all
Sorry I've not been around for while, I've had a lot going on, although I have managed to keep the house looking ok.

I have ds1 at home today as he has a high temperature and tummy ache, he won't eat and is just laying on the sofa watching cbeebies, Ds2 is working his way through the punnet of grapes (still, better than chocolate)

morning scatty hippi and Lavender you were new comers last time i checked in, now you seem to be better than me lavender of course you can get rid of dh's old clothes whist he is at work (he won't even notice)
mad sorry you have another migraine, I too feel poorly today (not a migraine thankfully) I have a headache and feel dizzy and pains in my tummy
EHM I saw the working mums flying thread but since I don't work I came on here and I feel I know you guys
saga hope dd's earache clears up soon

So today I will
get boys dressed
take ds1 to mums and ds2 swimming
Go to friends with ds2 after swimming for coffee
catch up on this weeks missions
pack for holiday on Friday
BBL hope you all have a good day

[hippipotami]

Hi Counting - long time no see

My walking injury is still painful. Am waiting to be referred to footspecialist at hospital to have an insole specially made. Am stuck in a viscious cycly - foot won't heal because I am overweight, can't exercise too much because foot is sore, ad infinitum!
But gentle walk in the woods is fine. And have taken up going for a weekly swim with a friend.

Lavender - roffle at your thoughts about your dh's shirts
Throw the worst ones out if he never wears them...
Or do waht I do - bury them at the bottom of the laundry basket and if he does not notice them missing within a month they get thrown out.

Right, better get going on my list, will be back later!

[hippipotami]

cycly? That should be cycle

[tigger32]

Hello and welcome bigbaubleeyes and countingthegreyhairs

I too suffer from depression and coming on here really helps me keep motivated when i'm down, as like you my housework is the 1st thing to suffer, fly lady also gives you lots of helpful tips, you should really chat to mad she is very good at explaining and helping others.

[TheMadHouse]

I found fly, as I too suffer from depression, thankfully under control after a fantastic cource of CBT. I found housework a real bind, when I was first depressed I become too house proud, then the opp happened. DH was great and paid for a cleaner to come in and bottom the place and then I started to Fly, have been doing it ever since.

I too am swimming today - with both boys
Back for lunch
Preschool for DS1
Nap for DS2 and me poss
Swimming things in wash
Whats for dinner
Sort out shopping list

[bigbaubleeyes]

Or some I am not abnormal tiigger32 thanks for sharing this with me - I get into such as tiz about it all. I think I will be using this does this happen every morning on MN?

Right here goes:

Fold and sort the big pile of ironing off spare bed.
Hoover and dust spare room
Make up bed in spare room

Sort through toys in DS room
Clean shelves as i go
Sort though clothes
Pack old clothes and toys for storage

Clean bathroom
Put stain remover on drips on stairs

If I can do these three rooms and look after DS - food toys and activties today I will be made. My reward will be to go to ikea to buy more storage baskets for living room. which I will tackle (rugby style) tomorrow.

[Countingthegreyhairs]

Thanks for the welcome everyone!

[Hippi- hope you don't have to wait too long for your referral - swimming sounds good - I'm still struggling on the exercise front)

Hope you feel better soon MadHouse and anyone else who is suffering (or their dc)

Right... onward and hopefully upward ...

[nuclear]

hi

I did some flying under a previous name. I just had ds2 who is 1 month now and need to get some order back.

so I will be joining again if that is ok?

( a little about me... I have 2 ds's (2.5 and 1 month) we live with DH and I am a SAHM. I am one of those people who gets really stressed if my house isn't tip top as I feel it helps keep my head in the right place. Because of this I usually do far more than necessary so I guess I am using Fly to make sure I don't over do it IYSWIM - does that make any sense?)

turned over a new leaf today - going to stop moaning and just get on with it!

done
packed lunch for DH
breakfasts
dressed ds1
hoovered and mopped downstairs
laundry on
put yesterday's laundry away
dishwasher emptied and on

to do
mission
walk dog

[WhereTheWildThingsWere]

Morning everyone.

Thanks for the thread EMH.

Feeling rubbish, dd is just not sleeping, think she is teething, so I am not going to do too much today. Most of what I am planning to do is passed over from yesterday.

Ironing
Stockings
Hoover downstairs
Hotspots
Dinner
Some wrapping tonight.

If I manage all that I will be very pleased.

Back later.

[bigbaubleeyes]

Hi nuclear - sounds EXACTLY like how I get!

Thanks for the welcome everyone I will get to grips with the finer points of the routines as I go if this is ok I ust need to get on top for now.

OMG WWW wrapping ie xmas stuff now I'm scared!!!! go for it

I have empited hoover got cleaning things out and out a load of laundry on - DS watching ghostbusters (eeeek?)

[sagacious]

Crikey this thread is busy this morning !
Welcome to all the newbies and returnees.. is this a backlash from the Stepford thread ??

mad hope your heads a bit better

Well I've just got back from the school run as I got ambushed into sorting out some more PTA stuff, so I've just chucked dd in and out of the bath (earache seems fine now thanks for all the vibes.. as she's now singing christmas carols at full pelt)

Better get on this morning is running away with me and I've not had breakfast yet

[FiveDollarShake]

Morning Everyone

Im going to post before reading the thread otherwise I'll be on here all day and get nothing done!

Done-

DC's washed and dressed
Breakfast
D/w emptied and put away
D/w reloaded and running
W/m loaded and running
Cleaned kitchen surfaces, hob and washed up wooden boards and sharp knives (not D/w friendly)
Emptied all bins
Dot to dots with DS, I had no idea he could count to 20

To Do-

Ironing- I'll try an hour
Change bedding
Lunch
Zone cleaning/decluttering
Empty d/w when finished
Empty w/m when finished
Tidy and hoover round

I'll read the thread now....

[hippipotami]

Hello everyone, 'tis busy here today

Right, have completed my morning routine (which consists of one load of washing on, yesterday's load to put away, make the beds, breakfast dishes washed and away, bathroom wiped, toilet brushed, hotspots put out)

Am now havign a quick coffee and need to order some bits online for dd's birthday and the dc for Christmas.

Then will be off to Sainsbury and the pet shop.

Back later

[FiveDollarShake]

Bigbaubleeyes Hi! I know how you feel Ive had depression in the past and I'm currently being treated for PND. If the house is a state it makes me worse. This thread has definately helped over last last couple of months. I rarely do everything on my list but if I didnt have a list I would do nothing......sad but true. Hope it works for you .