December's Fledgling Flyers: Christmas time, swish and swipe and wine, flyers sing to the fat fairy rhyme.

[elliepac]

Welcome to the December 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 DEM/DID who looked after us last month and did a fantabulous job

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.

As before I will usually post links the evening before.

Today's babystep is the all important shining of the sink.

The mission is here.

The Christmas mission is here (I think...fingers crossed)

Have a good day everyone. If I don't emerge tomorrow it's because I am buried in the snow.

I'm first on the Christmas thread! Whoopee!

Marking my place in the hope that I might fly rather than flap ineffectually!

Just marking my spot, as I probably won't be able to do any serious flying until next week. My challenge for the first week of the new month is to keep my routines going and keep sane while I'm ridiculously busy with work.

Marking my spot. My aim for December is to get the house tamed enough to have christmas. unfortunatly due to circumstances christmas starts in this house on the 11th with a christmas party type thing.

counts the days, looks at the state of the house, surveys the to do list

list for tomo:

Finish the washing
training
bathroom
landing
hall
bag of shoes to charity shop
panic
sleep

but not necessarily in that order.

Marking spot.

Marking my spot too - is it really December??

Marking place then off to fill advent calendars :)

Marking my place too . Can't believe DD is 2 tomorrow . Where has the time gone? At least I am not in labour this year - the hospital is a 45 min drive away at the best of times and I am completely snowed in!

Evening ladies

Just rushing through. Will be back on track tomorrow I hope - am now off the sick list

Advent wallhanging is up, winter wallhanging up, winter cushion covers on, advent candle primed for action - so we're all ready for Christmas here

wahey i loooooooooovvvvvveeeeeee Christmas and am starting the month with my christmas organisation list.

find easy christmas cake recipe to make with dc
finish christmas cards.
sort out larder units
make menu plan
find something good to do NYD as celebrations are almost non existant.

have a jolly lovely time.

when santa got stuck up the chimney, he began to shout, the girls and boys wont get any toys if you dont get me out. My suit is black, there's soot in my sack, my nose it tickling too. When santa got stuck up the chimney, Achoo achoo achoo.

Marking my spot on here.

Waves to everyone. Tumour was benign, which is brilliant , so no more treatment needed. Still a LOooooooooong way from being back to normal though, so I may be a little sporadic and certainly only babysteps.
Yesterday was the first day for 5 weeks that I had actually cooked the tea (well, I bunged a load of stuff in the slowcooker at about 10am), had the energy to dish up for everyone AND eat! - Then had to sit down for 2 hours to recuperate!

Anyway, my plan is to set myself a goal each day and build up to normality. Today (yes, well it is a bit early yet, so I will be going back to bed) I plan on going out of the house for the second time since leaving hospital. A friend is coming to pick me up and we will go to a coffee shop. (snow permitting).

My lists could be embarrassingly pathetic for a while!!

Nick, is that you?

Once again, I didn't make it to bed much before midnight - but I get to work for an hour longer this morning, as it's the one day when DD2 has school until 12.45 and the English lesson has been cancelled. I now need to translate 7 pages a day (having done 20 over the past two days), which seems much more manageable.

Am going to aim to get as much as possible of my morning routine done today... will be back later!

That's fantastic news, PA - hope you have a lovely time with your friend today.

Wonderful news PA I was vwondering how you were. Recovering from surgery is hard so take things slow and steady and I'm sure youu'll be feelong more like ypurtself shortlym

That's lovely news PA hope snow doesn't halt your plans for today.

Well done Linzer that must be a relief, any nice recipes to share?

Happy birthday to PMPY 's dd :)

I'm veeery excited about christmas too Nettie going on our first christmas grotto visit this weekend. huzzah.

Thank you for the links ellie

Waves to MrsD Deck Dolanette Ihate MadWoman OM MiniM Toffee

I had a productive day yesterday but I have no time today to do anything other than the routines, school with dd, help at ds' class, take parcel to mil, clothes to clothing bank, ds to environment club, ds to football, make dinner. Oh and put all the recycling out, there is bags and bags of it.

Today
-Morning routine
-S and S
-Load of washing
-Bins out
-Parcel to mil
-Dinner
-Evening routine

I will do both of the missions tomorrow hopefully along with some wrapping. Hope everyone has a nice day, is it still snowing anywhere?

"Father Christmas, Father Christmas, he got stuck! Coming down the chimney, What bad luck! What bad luck!" 24 sleeps

Thanks deck love it!
linzer love the name good luck with rest of pages.
pa nice to see you, enjoy coffee trip
[madwoman funny i was wondering where you got to only last night. Welcome back!

Flying today

Routines
Work
Put away clothes
Painting again [yawn emotion]
trip to new mega store Sainsburys if I cannconvince dh!
Laying out clothes!

Have lovely day humungous waves to all the other fliers I haven't mentioned yet!

bob have fun at grotto this weekend! We trying to hold off till 11th when we are going to have breakfast with Santa at the zoo!

Hi ladies. Can I join you?

I was intending to be all ready for Christmas with all pressies bought and wrapped and cards written by 1st December.Needless to say I'm nowhere near and my house could do with a major declutter and deep clean between now and the big day.

I have tried flylady before and find the basic routines really help but I just really struggle to keep u with the emails.

Hopefully by posting on here and with a bit of help from you lovely ladies I will make it to Christmas without having a nervous breakdown. My fingers are well and truly crossed

First piece of advice on this thread is to ditch the emails. Think you can manage that insanemumma? consider it essential decluttering

Hi all, I've been lurking on one of the November threads, trying to do the baby steps and work my way through a daily list of chores with some success but it all falls apart if there's anything non-routine happening. Yesterday I got no housework done except for cooking as I was doing the fucking bastard advert calendars for the DCs ... so, new month, new start and I'll be using this thread as motivation :)

So, today's list:

pin up hair properly
clear front steps
hang washing (shirts)
new load of washing in (sheets and towels)
breakfast
washing up
shine sink
wipe and sweep kitchen
HAND CREAM!

then later on:

cat tray
5 min rescue - living room
hoover hallway, stairs, landing
wipe down front door (can't get near dining room walls and window as there is 3' deep of scary junk round all the edges of the room)
HAND CREAM!

Where are my shoes?
lined up neatly in the hallway with everybody else's

What's for dinner?
cauliflower cheese and chips

DCs both have a snow day today and DP has come down with the inevitable effects of going to the pub three days in a row man-flu . DS is doing Lord of the Flies so I might dig out the video this afternoon and we can all settle down with a nice fire and some popcorn.

Right ds' school website hasnt been updated so it looks like i will have ds home, plus the roads are interesting and i am not sure i want to be digging my car out. I am also suffering for training yesterday, at some point i am going to have to admit i am ill and just rest, however in the mean time think i am going to have to review my list for today:

training snow
bathroom - bribe ds to do bath and sink
landing
hall
bag of shoes to charity shop garage for temp storage til can get out with it.
panic x6
Laundry - finish washing, finish folding, finish ironing, all away
get ds to finish writing his christmas cards, start making decorations, finish tidying his bedroom.
Panic some more
Taming discovering kitchen and kitchen sink
sleep

right as i am still in pj despite having been out to put the bins out having discovered that it was forgotten last night. I think i am going to grab a shower, get up and have a very very very large coffee.