Remember Remember, Fledglings Fly through November

[DidEinsteinsMum]

Welcome to the November Fledgling Flying thread.

From the 1st of the month we shall be decluttering and taming the chaos using baby steps, missions and zones. A great big thank you to MrsDinky who looked after us last month.

We are not strict followers of the fat fairy and take some of the babysteps wearing shoes indoors with a pinch of salt. Also advise against signing up for the fairy's emails.

All are welcome, jump on board for one of our three methods of chaos attack:

1. Baby steps
2. Baby steps and 15mins decluttering in current zone
3. Re-inforce the baby steps and daily mission

This month the fat fairy is gearing up for the feastive period. So I shall also post the christmas mission for those who wish are brave enough to look.

In here the motto is:

*"No perfection! Do what you can, but be realistic about what you can do."

Happy flying.

Lovely to 'hear' from you PA.
Hope today is a better day Bob
Big wave to all on the thread - you are too many to mention individually.

Today I have:
Done a Gatwick run!
Taken car back to garage to have knocking noise looked at AGAIN
Walked v.v. briskly to meet friend for coffee(am feeling v. virtuous
Taken delivery of Tesco order (kids will be pleased)
Cleared the ironing basket!! Whoohoo!

To do
Tutor my nephew!! (he's got an interview next week for 'big school')
Pick up DC
Prep Christmas Chutney - been meaning to do this for weeks. Have jars and ingredients but not got round to it!

Catch up later...x

Welcome back PA glad the surgery went well. I think it is only to be expected that you are exhausted though! Keep your DH cleaning and tdying for a while yet!

I would like to second what PMPY said. PA take it easy and let DH take the housework strain for a bit. rest up.

Ds is already in bed [bicuit] He has gone mad with the wind again and in combination with having had a couple of late nights it is really not a fun mix. So he has spent an hour in the bath and had tea in bed and is currently reading. sleep meds have already been plied. i predict him asleep by about 6:30pm.

Flying to is going to be restricted to entering information into the calanders bought for next year. I have learnt from previous years and calanders for ds MUST come with the birthdays ext already entered else i will end up with tears and doing this christmas day he is a little ocd when it comes to schedules, timetables and calanders.

Am about to go to sleep so here are the links for Thursday:

Reminders

Early Night Babystep

Missions

Christmas missions

Evening one and all.

Feeling proud of myself today because I have.........drum roll please....... washed up after dinner. Some of you may mock myrather lowly achievement but compared to how things have been recently that is major progress .

pa so lovely to 'see' you. Glad to hear that DH is stepping up and I hope you start to feel a little better soon.

bob sending lot of love and thoughts your way.

I too am a little overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of us little fledglings at the moment so I will just have to wave to you all in the hope that you will forgive me! (I am aiming to catch up tonight)

Have no other plans tonight. Have just found Sister Act on the TV so am going to watch that whilst lurking around on mn. Might pop back later.

Well done Ellie - I took one look at the kitchen tonight and pleaded weak and feeble to DH, who offered to do it while I watched The Apprentice, top marks to DH.

Special hugs for Bob and her family, also PA and hers.

I'm struggling a bit with keeping track of everyone as well, and found the roundups hard work last month, maybe now there are so many of us we should make do with just doing a bit of rounding up each when we have time so it doesn't all fall to DEM or whoever is doing the links. Having said that, I am too tired tonight!

Have had a nice evening though, started badly with the DCs who are often on a knife edge of tiredness at school pickup time, the slightest thing upsets them and I'm not always very tolerant of being bawled out for the fact that I forgot to count how many foreign cars I saw that day or I parked on the wrong side of the road, so we had tears before we even got home from school.

However I decided to get them to do some junk modelling before tea, and they produced a lovely bus and train to go in the school art week competition

With that I'm off to bed, night all.

Evening - quick dash, dash out and off to bed

Done
Morning routine
DS to playgroup
Collect brocolli from allotment
Clean washing away
Wet washing on airer by Aga
Washing in machine ready for tonight
Cook tea
Place Baker Ross order, for toddler group and us (took far too long as its like a sweety shop in that website smile)
Make beds
S/s
Washup
Get ready to go out
Collect DS and go round to friends
Menu plan
Shopping list for tomorrow
Hotspot
Playgroup paperwork (took ages, I'm not friends with DfE atm - completely screwed up my afternoon and I've just run out of time and energy)
WI paperwork
Tea in oven
Wash up
Evening routine
Lavender bag making

Not done
Clean fridge
Mending
Filing
Shredding
Clean cat bowls

Hi everyone,

Made a good start (at 4.30am) - DH's snoring drove me from bed!

Done
Prescription prepay certificate ordered
sent work e mails
Ordered equipment for course
Done some of my tax return
Taken sheets from dryer (need to wait till DH is up for folding as I am shortarse)
Put away crockery

To do
wash kitchen floor
washing
make shopping list and menu plan for next week
work work
cleaning grime from doors mission from Tuesday and declutter in bathroom

Hope you have a good day, everyone

Right must be productive this morning.

list today:
dry school uniform so ds has something to wear done
Morning routine as exists done
Coffee with friends done and after 3 cups nearly awake.
Wash silk flower thingies
Clean bathroom window sil
Landry - wash 1st load of today, fold uptodate apart from socks, away, iron
Paperwork - sort into to be filed, recycled, burn and deal with NOW
tidy lounge
Landing - tidy and hoover
Ds' room - tidy and hoover.
Trip to opticians for ds' glasses to be fixed
Pick up chocolate for out of uniform day tomo
Wash ds' bedding x2 sets
wipe down plastic sheet
make ds' bed
dw load and run done
Drain off water feature pump.
Scrub inside of feature lining
Put feature pump and lining away where not going to be affected by frost.
Hide ds' birthday present.

Anything else that needs doing of gets done because it looks at me the wrong way.

hey all.... struggling to get moving again today as have YET another headache ... blah..

need to sort uniform out for my son for tomorrow
tidy round
change my sons bed
put some washing on

jus for starters!!

xx

Cross, cross, MrsD is cross. We got to school and had to walk along a path to the door past a boy that has been picking on DS oveer the last few weeks, boy thumped DS, who retaliated, I told him to leave it, boy did it again, DS retaliated, boy's mum nowhere to be seen, luckily the door opened then and we went in. It's not heavy punches or anything but it is nasty and I don't like it.

Then I noticed the diamond was missing from my engagement ring, so all Flying is hereby postponed while I conduct a fingertip search of the house. Grrr.

Oh dear MrsD. That's not the best way to start the day. I hope you find it.

I've found it! On the front door mat, was just going out to look in the car. phew.

No excuse for not hoovering now though .

oh yay!! pleased you found it :)

Yay MrsD

dry school uniform so ds has something to wear done
Morning routine as exists done
Coffee with friends done and after 3 cups nearly awake.
Wash silk flower thingies done
Clean bathroom window sil done
Landry - wash 1st load of today on, fold uptodate apart from socks, away half up to date, iron
Paperwork - sort into to be filed, recycled, burn and deal with NOW
tidy lounge
Landing - tidy half done and hoover
Ds' room - tidy half done and hoover.
Trip to opticians for ds' glasses to be fixed
Pick up chocolate for out of uniform day tomo
Wash ds' bedding x2 sets
wipe down plastic sheet done
make ds' bed half done just waiting for a fitted sheet to be dry
dw load and run done
Drain off water feature pump. done
Scrub inside of feature lining soaking with cleaner
Put feature pump and lining away where not going to be affected by frost.
Hide ds' birthday present.
Sort out too small clothes from Ds' wardrobe done

Morning All,

What a morning MrsD, so glad you found your diamond.

Right, some low-key flying for me:

• iron a few clothes so I have something other than pyjamas/tracksuit to wear.
• take cakes/biscuits out of freezer for afternoon visitors in order to look like domestic goddess ()
• take dinner out of freezer
• hoover kitchen and living room middle bits
• put on washing and hang out (unless DH gets there first)
• kitchen tidying and sink shining after dinner
• change duvet cover following nappy changing incident!

I think that is all for now. So glad that PA and Bob's DD are on the mend, still thinking of both x.

Have a good day all, sorry for lack of personal messages.

Afternoon everyone,

Unexpected afternoon at home here. Unfortunately, poor CM's dad was rushed into hospital this morning so I have had to come home early to look after DD as no-one else was available. Am trying therefore to do a bit of a catch-up and also spend some nice time with DD. So far we have done colouring, made our lunch and we are about to bake some cakes!

Have also managed to:

put washing on
put drier on
Tidy downstairs
Do washing up
Vacuum downstairs

Am going to:-

S/S and tidy bathroom
Tidy DC's bedroom
Pick DS up (first time I have done so at his new school, not entirely sure where I am going!)
Cook dinner
Sort washing
Evening routine

So pleased to see on the other thread that bob's dd is improving and also relieved to hear pa is on the mend.

mrsd what a horrible morning you've had.

mm a domestic goddess with a 2 week old . I bow to your superiority.

dir have you had some of that caffeine you requested on fb because you are racing away today!

highlighter the other night i actually got my phone and recorded DH's snoring to prove to him how horrific it is and why he should stop being offended when he wakes up and I have sneaked down onto the sofa. He always feel affronted because he didn't think it was that bad! Mission accomplished

Better go, DD is tugging at me to go and do the baking!

Just checking in, a lot to catch up on and will read through properly later. Has been a hectic few days chez Hippo, lots of family drama that is thankfully starting to sort itself out now.

Glad to hear op was a success PA.
Warmest wishes to Bobs DD.

Waves to everyone... I've missed you!!

Hello everyone on m6 on way back to Essex.

pa glad you home hope you feel wee bit better with every restful day.
bob thinking of you and Dd lots ((hugs))
mrsd that sucks cretin hurting ur ds. That sort of thing leaves me feel sick to stomach. Glad u found ur ring.
did sorry ur gran not well. I hope you can find a way to visit

I am shattered, had a lovely time my new baby niece is gorgeous and saw 6 other nieces and nephews and all 5 siblings and ma and pa only missed one sibling who lives different part of Scotland.

My flying at wrinkles went like this
Cleaned oven
Scrubbed shower room
Scrubbed bathroom
Cleaned Walls in kitchen and units
Cleaned 3 floors hoovered 3rooms
Polished 3 rooms
Cleaned 2 mirrors
Shined sink
Did load of washing each day
Made dinner each day
Dw x 2 each day
Visited db new house ds broke his binoculars dh bought new ones.
By the time we get home will have driven nearly 1000 miles.
done Ocado shop on route.

Am ready for bed.
Hope to Catch up properly with all you lovely ladies tomorrow.

mini should you be doing so much flyingdomesticgoddessing? Please slob- loll sedately, before the tiredness kicks in, xx to little one! And get visitors to bring the CAKE! Save yours for the six week growth spurt!

nettie again on rocket fuel

ellie washing up gets me down. I never tire of chopping onions, but scraping plates...

done
front room dusted and polished, hoovered, decluttered, de-ashed, de dead flowered
s & s bathroom
friends to lunch
beds made
sheets stripped, washed on two beds

rest of house not good,
now trying to tackle or shll I talk to children, possibly a better idea

MrsD so understand that vibe, but sometimes cunning plan is just the ticket, love the junk modelling, can I face the HAMA tonight, may bring good vibrtions back...

look what we got!!!

Woohoo is that a [pombear] emotion I see????

[pombear] [pombear]

Ah not quite a pom but a all the same

been very busy and am tired plus have a crazy day tomo. here are the links;

Friday reminders

The flylady's commandments

Missions

Christmas mission

Have good days all.

Right plan for today:

school disco tickets - put form into school
On ice training
LUNCH
School run
Nap
Do something nice with ds
Off ice
On ice training
Collaspe into little puddle on floor.