If your house is calling May Day, do not fear: May's Fledgling Flyers are here

[LinzerTorte]

Welcome to the May edition of the Fledgling Flyers' thread. Thank you to Nettie for her splendid leadership of last month's thread.

If you're living in CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome), this is the thread for you! We follow the tips on the FlyLady website in an attempt to restore order to our homes, but advise against signing up for the e-mails; all the information you need is on this thread.

Each day, I'll be posting the links that will enable you to do any of the following:

• start or repeat baby steps

• repeat babysteps and do 15 mins a day decluttering in the current zone

or

• reinforce babysteps and do daily missions if you have finished decluttering.

More information about the babysteps is here.

So please join us - there's always plenty of chat, tea, cake, encouragement and the occasional to help us on our way!

Thanks for the sympathy Blue and scatty. When I saw all the blood, I was expecting a gash several centimetres long but it was only a small cut; I think he was more shocked than anything.

Have just had yet another mini-breakdown over the state of the house. I have put all the clutter/anything lying around in a pile the middle of each room (in boxes in some cases) and have told DH I?m going to throw everything away. It?s a protest more than anything, though ? I know I?ll end up sorting everything out and putting it away once I?ve calmed down (although that probably won?t be until tomorrow)!

Time for the round-up:

PA had a hectic day of baking and cooking ahead of her, but no longer needs to hide from the postman.

Apuski has an artwork dilemma and was prevented from putting up her tent thanks to the rain.

DWM was deciding whether to brave the rain and restocking her freezer.

swan had an early start to the day and splashed out on Sunday lunch ingredients for 14 ? I am very impressed, as I find cooking Sunday lunch for five stressful enough.

ellie has been a busy bee, appreciated having time to potter and was trying to find the floor in her DS?s room.

Makingchanges had a busy but good end to the week so enjoyed a well-deserved lie-in, and was planning a productive day of lesson planning, marking and job applications.

SC provided us with an apt quotation, was busy with first communion preparation and still suffering from juddery type.

bobbinogs has been successfully decluttering, visited a sheep festival (which sounds like something my DC would love, as they?re absolutely fascinated by all the sheep we see on our train journeys through Wales) and has already worn out her Kindle after 48 hours.

Cinders also had an early start and had made lunch before most of us had had breakfast.

Blue has had a productive church meeting, been organised with her laundry and handed round ? thank you, just what I needed.

scatty has ferried her DC to swimming and ballet - love the advice to your DD about needing to panic quietly! - and has no plans for tomorrow. May I suggest Renewing Your Spirit in some way?

Marking my spot! Must do better in May!!!!!

Updated list

• Planning for week of literacy lessons - done
• Make resources for numeracy lessons - nope
• Mark science books - nope
• 3 x washing (First load in now) - done
• Do online shop - nope
• Find library books that are seriously overdue of DDs and take back - done
• Tidy understairs paperwork pile- nope
• Hoover lounge - nope
• Sort out pile of uni, shopping. gym, swimming, ballet and school bags under stairs - nope
• Try to locate book needed for school this week - done
• 2 job applications - done
• Whats for tea Think it might be a freezer job - done Yuck toad in the hole from freezer.

Failed on the flying today. Mainly due to a very naughter 5 year old and her 4 friends. Grrrrr

Good morning,

For today?s babystep, we?re going to start putting our control journal together by putting some paper into a ring binder.

There?s no mission again today. Sunday is Renew Your Spirit day ? and today is also Mother?s Day for expat fledglings, so Happy Mother?s Day to SC, Cinders, CheerfulYank and anyone else I?ve missed who?s also celebrating Mother?s Day today!

dh is at work
and Im halfway through baking Pizzas for lunch

ps

Happy Mothers back

Linzer

Happy mothers day fraulines (is that right?) .

No plans today. DC seem busy. Dh is reporting a cold.
I have fed the washing machine/dishwasher/children.

Going to renew my spirit with a and the papers .

Crazily busy, but hopefully nice, day today. Taking DS2 to a birthday party this morning (with reptiles!), then meeting up with friend and her DC this afternoon. And then popping next door for a drink or two with our next-door neighbours. I'm not sure when I will get time to tidy up the house in time for teacher arriving for SATs tomorrow. I think I may just have to shut a lot of doors .

Happy Mother's Day, Linzer!

See you all tomorrow.

well this morning is not going very well
have already discovered that my potatoes (for the gratin dauphinoise/aka cheesy potatoes) are half gone! Dh used them last night when I was out swimming with kids [grr] and boiled them.

He woke up at seven, in a Bad mood after foolishly watching Matrix till late, and has been stomping round house ever since, complaining about clutter. Wtf? (not usually given to swearing, but to be told we have too much stuff...words fail me....)

Anyway, now he has put his good hat on, and taken children to park still effng and blinding about various things.

I need to go and buy some potatoes, lamb in the oven...

oh yes, and ds2 is refusing to have anything to do with our [little] guests, saying he wants to watch Formula One at 1.00pm. Maybe I should just hide him upstairs with the laptop during lunch and we would have some peace and quiet as a result...

Thank you scatty and Toffee (theoretically it should be Fräulein, scatty, but it's a word that's hardly ever used any more - all women are addressed as Frau, whether they're married or not).

swan It's the DC who are in a bad mood here (the DDs seem to have had very little sleep at last night's sleepover and DD2 is just awful today), but DH annoys me sometimes by suddenly deciding to complain about the house being in a mess, despite being blind to it most of the time. He still can't see that we have too much clutter, though.

Have been out for yet another coffee/ice cream for Mother's Day, although DD2 refused to eat an ice cream from the ice cream parlour so we had to buy one for her from the petrol station beforehand. I sat in the car with her waiting for her to finish it before we joined the others at the cafe. My parents would say we were pandering too her and they would probably be right, but I just can't be bothered sometimes.

dh bought a lemon tree for me ...

ds had fun making homemade lemonade

pizzas were yum
and dh
is taking himself out for lunch ..on his way home form work

linzer
dd ds and I have been for coffee and ice too...

Im the one in the foul mood here
bloody lemon tree....
I m the lemon....

Chaos here, sorry for not posting for a few days. Bunkbeds delivered for DD's room on Friday, have had to move several items of furniture plus all sorts of other crap out of her room with knock on effects all over the top floor, eg I can't put any clean washing away because I can't access anyones wardrobes and drawers, all gradually getting put back into place now but not much other Flying getting done. DCs are at my parents since yesterday, they'd bloody well better like these bunkbeds is all I can say!

Swan i hope you lunch goes ok and you get more potatoes. I'm sure its just what you needed when you have so many to cook for.

Linzer I hope the DCs moods lighten - DD has woken in a much better mood today but has lost her nice day we had planned for her. Just as well as DH announced yesterday he is playing cricket again today - cue me in a mood last night as he promised that he would help me with DD at weekends whilst I finished my course as the workload is sooo huge at weekends He has now played 5 games of cricket in 9 days and is going away tomorrow until Thursday evening so DD will have hardly seen him in a week. Grrr

Anyway he has gone and DD is playing lovely with the neighbours kids so I'm going to attempt to do my list yesterday that I failed so miserably with.

Hope everyone has a great day renewing their spirits

Just a quick list before DS's bathtime:

• done lots of washing - now need to do lots of ironing :(
• cleaned bathroom floor and loo
• cleaned kitchen floor

Been flying all over the house :) but still managed to take DS to a farm today to see goats, lambs and other of Old MacDonald's creatures. He seemed to quite enjoy it :)

Hope everyone had a good weekend, that Lady had a good birthday, and that the ex-pats enjoyed Mothers' Day.

LOL cyber you know what they say. When life (or even dh) gives you lemons, make lemonade! .

linzer some call it pandering, I call it parenting outside the box .

livelong my dc still love a farm visit .

Had a nice day:
made scones with dc
read in the garden
bought milk and cheese
home work done

Ah thankyou for the lovely birthday wishes for yesterday, so kind of you I had a lovely day - weather was supposed to be dreadful but ended up lovely so we went on a boat trip, played crazy golf, visited a gorgeous food market that just happened to be at the other end of our boat trip as well as a ruined castle and beautiful gardens then had a late lunch before heading home to eat chocolate. Today watched DD in her Rainbow parade at church where she got to hold the banner (so proud) then had a lovely picnic in a park with my whole family where the kids could play and go on a train ride and feed ducks etc and i got to blow candles out on a cake and the whole park heard a loud rendition of happy birthday sung to me A perfect weekend - I am so lucky

Happy Mothers Day to lots of you too

Sorry to hear DS cut his forehead Linzer heads do bleed a frightening amount it's unreal, hope he's doing ok today!

Swan your DS2 sounds like my fil - F1 takes 1st place whenever it's on regardless of what is going on.

See you all tomorrow, back to the grindstone again

Had a nice day, and good lunch with friends. DS1 especially enjoyed it - he'd been looking forward to them coming for weeks. :)
But the boys seem to have managed to break the PC monitor somehow this morning!
Still no rain though...

So, tomorrow:
Book bag book
Laundry and putting away
Pick up new monitor
Weekly shop and putting away
Holiday planning, call V&K
Routines, entertain boys...

Swan - DH is watching the race now, having recorded it, and shouting at the TV.
Glad you had such a lovely birthday w/e Lady :)
Hope the bunk beds are a success WhoKnows and that it's all worth it.
Mm, scones, scatty. My mum makes amazing scones - mine are never quite the same. Will have to keep working on it .

Hope everyone has good Mondays and a good week of flying.

Rant alert! Rant alert! (and swearing alert)

I have spent the best part of the bloody weekend cleaning, tidying, cooking, washing (bearing in mind that involves several trips to MIL's), tutoring, schoolworking and tonight I swear to God you would never fucking know I had done anything. No-one in my chuffing house seems to care if they live in a shithole, either that or they think that I will magic everything away. DH has done f-all apart from the supermarket shop and bathing the DC's tonight (and that was only because I said it was that or do the washing up after a roast). Even bathing the kids, he trashed the bathroom which I have tidied/cleaned twice so I had to do it all over again whilst my bath was running and made me wish I had just done the bugger myself. DH is an all or nothing kind of guy and this weekend was definitely nothing. . People just dump crap where they want, drop crap and not bother picking it up.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh.

I'm going to drink some wine and do some lesson planning (should make for some interesting lessons tomorrow )

Despite the rain and DD2's overtiredness, had quite a nice day in the end - the DC's moods improved in the afternoon thank goodness, although there was still the usual amount of squabbling going on. Flying-wise, I've changed the sheets, spent 15 minutes decluttering in the kitchen (as I probably won't have time tomorrow) and laid out my (running) clothes for tomorrow - I need to fit in my first C25k run before my doctor's appointment at 9 am.

So what has everyone else been up to today?

Cinders was given a lemon tree for Mother?s Day (am I the only person to think of The Seekers? probably) and her DS promptly made lemonade for her.

scatty renewed her spirit with and the papers (oh, I do miss Sunday papers), read in the garden (it poured with rain here today) and made scones.

Toffee had a busy day ahead of her and decided that shutting doors is the way to go when you have visitors.

swan was missing half her potatoes and had a grumpy DH, although he did redeem himself somewhat by taking the DC to the park.

WhoKnows is getting back to normal after the arrival of bunk beds.

Makingchanges has been a cricket widow (grr to DHs who aren?t around at weekends) and was planning to have another go at yesterday?s list.

LiveLong had family fun at the farm, and then had an evening of ironing to look forward to.

Lady had a lovely birthday yesterday, with highlights including a boat trip, crazy golf, a food market and chocolate. Today she proudly watched her DD?s Rainbow parade before enjoying a picnic in the park and being serenaded by her family.

Blue enjoyed lunch with friends, has a broken monitor and is rain-free.

ellie had an understandable rant - also grr at DHs (and DC) who do nothing and expect us to clean and tidy up after them. Wine is definitely in order for her tonight. (Very strangely, I was so upset about the state of the house last night that I couldn't drink anything. I've made up for it tonight. )

Hope everyone else has had a lovely Sunday.

Linzer exits stage right, warbling "Lemon tree, very pretty, ... but the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat." (Not on a par with Camus, I know.)

Evening all,

Tidiness has been restored upstairs and DCs are happily asleep in the new bunkbeds. I have been cursing the smallness of our house all weekend as it has been hrd work and we've been tripping over stuff but at least we've been forced to have a thorough tidy up which we would have got away with not doing if there had been more space.

Linzer thanks for the roundup, a belated happy Mothers Day to you and Cinders and SC and Yank and anyone else celebrating today.

Ellie grrr to your DH, hope you are feeling calmer now.

Really must go to bed. Night all.

Morning all,

Today?s babystep is to add a five minute room rescue to your morning routine.

This week?s focus zone is the kitchen. The new missions haven?t appeared yet, but today?s should be here later.

Today?s daily focus is the Weekly Home Blessing Hour.

Morning!

Did a huge post last night then lost it!

Did loads of cooking yesterday so freezer is now full but an ironing mountain has now developed. so my list is
dressed done me but not DS yet
iron DS some trousers
breakfast
get bags ready
DW
out on time
mission - found it on the sneak peek for the week - cleaning the stove [yuk emoticon]
30 mins ironing
5 mins room rescue - dresser as it didn't get done last week
WM
DW
bed on time

Have a good day ladies

Morning ladies, just a fly-by this morning as a manic day ahead.

Spent yesterday being a slob after over-doing things on Saturday.

Today:
SOrt washing -done
put washing on line
sandwiches
walk to work rather than jump in the car because I am late - hence quick post this morning to grab back a few minutes
work - long day
Hoover hallway, stairs and landing
cook tea
Waitrose shop
cook for DH who wont be home until late

Job for later in the week is to sort out the clothes in my wardrobe and store my winter clothes - my favourite job of the entire year!

Have a lovely day everyone

I will get loads done I will

I will

I will