June know it's the fledgling flyers?

[Stillchuckingit]

A warm welcome to the June Fledgling Flyers' thread.

If the state of your house is getting you down, this is the thread where we follow the step-by-step Flylady housekeeping system (in our own, unique, relaxed style ) with lots of chat and support along the way and where lace-up shoes are definitely optional.

A huge thank you to Linzer for keeping us all on track so splendidly during May and thank you to DroitwichMummy for the thread title.

As usual, we will be following the Flylady three-pronged approach:

1. Baby-steps (a daily step to establish routines)
2. Then baby-steps + 15 mins daily decluttering
3. (And once decluttered) babysteps + daily missions

If you are feeling overwhelmed by clutter and mess, you can make a difference, one step at a time.

For more information, have a look here. You don't need to sign up to Flylady e-mails (we advise you not to do so in fact - you will be overwhelmed - all the information you need can be gleaned from this thread).

All long-standing members, intermittent returnees, lurkers and newcomers welcome!!

Begining of july..do not think I mentioned it
maybe I did ..

seemed a good idea
had hoped my Mum would come

she has convinced hereself she is too ill.

even though all the doctors say she is healthy

How old is DS? You will have a fa time. Dont want to hijack the thread, but if you want to ask about where to go etc, PM me and I will pass on loads of info.

I will have you all over here for a flylady meet-up soon. you could all come and have a room of the house each to show me what you have learnt about flying, and I will have a lovely house!! I will inspect in laceups and tan tights with a fairy wand and fairy wings. I am about the right shape, so no padding needed. Just give me a date!!

PA have a fabulous weekend. Poor dd, I hope the drive didn't drive her to drink and poor you, what apile-up of mishaps, I think you need loud music to blot them out.
We have ipod music here on one of the ipods, 4 songs we have on CD already . Dd is delighted. Yay hay, dunno quite how I did it. The other Ipod is refusing to activate itself and keeps repeating inanely that it has no id.
Dh has sold some books at his blessed fair. We have been lstening to raucous ripped CDs off the laptop and eating pizza in honour of ds1's absence (we are mean parents)

I do love a rainy evening...

okay

Im sure I posted something

well ds is seven
going on seventeen

I have lace up shoes
but they are red and purple..

and impossible to get on

but very pretty ...

[Passes tray of canapés over to Cinders to soak up the fizzy wine ...]

Toffee so pleased you got good news from the secondary school. I should think so too! Happy holidays!!

Swan if it's any consolation, I find my Ipod utterly bewildering

Thanks for the technology tips though Whoknows!!

Blue glad you got some work done, and that you had a school-run reprieve Pink

Scatty the prices of everything have shot up massively over here too. It always was quite pricey but now it is really noticeable that you get less for your money. Used to spend Euros 50 on a (long) weekend shop, including ingredients for a roast/perhaps the odd bottle of wine + toiletries + veg that would last at least until mid-week and perhaps odd cleaning product - now that costs more like 70 to 80 Euros. As for the price of dd's shoes ...don't go there...

PA oh the delights of teenagers - can't wait!! Hope dd2 and ds feeling better today! Enjoy the "good vibrations"

Keeping it short and sweet today if no-one minds. Back to post step for tomorrow and then to drool over Monty.

See you in the morning everyone!

Cinders is your mum in Austria with you? Or in Hampshire? Maybe she will feel better nearer the time.

Whoknows my Ds2 likes adventures too and is quite brave in new situations - for example he wouldn't find going to a strange birthday party in the slightest bit frightening, or a roller coaster, but finds judging social niceties dfficult. I think so many people are undiagnosed Aspergers that it is not surprising not all the traits "fit" with the label. Anyway, off now to read him a story; I am going to try him out on the Redwall series, unless he finds them too whimsical..

Tomorrow's step, no.11 for Saturday 11th June, is one you can ignore imo here

No missions because it is the weekend.

Saturday is family fun day.

Bonne nuit/Goeie nacht!

Evening all - what a week!

Too much work, too much stuff to do for School Assoc, NO Flying, DS sent home from school twice with headache/nausea, 1 trip to GP with each child (DD hadn't been for about 4 years!)
I now need to research migraines in 5 year olds and find a good book for an 8 year old about developing bodies and periods We haven't got quite that far yet but are on the way. Feeling quite sad, how can my baby girl be starting that journey already, she's only 8 :(

Any book suggestions would be welcome.

PA - if its any consolation I got completely ratted at a little older than your DD, felt like I was going to die the next day, swore I would never drink that much again and haven't.
Hope the rest of the w/e involves slightly less drunken teenagers.

SC - sorry health things are giving you a hard time. If it helps my mum said that having her hysterectomy was the best thing she ever did.

Need to sleep now - quiet-ish day tomorrow then, hopefully if weather is OK, School Assoc car boot sale on Sunday. Fingers-crossed as we have 24 pitches booked!

Night night all

Well, I now have a bulging suitcase, although I still don't seem to have finished packing . Will have to throw the last few things in at the crack of dawn (we are leaving at 6am to catch an early ferry).

The spray tan is nice - I think. It is certainly noticeable. I think I'll have to live with it for a bit. I went darker on the legs (to cover the bruising), but only had one layer on my face. DH and DC are all a bit unsure about it, but luckily my mum was very enthusisastic and encouraging. Just as well I have another female on holiday with me.

Swan - when I rang the NAS for advice, they said that it was perfectly possible for someone with AS to have learned to function fairly well in, say, two areas of the 'triad of impairment', but to really struggle with the third.

Right, really must get myself off to bed, as I have to be up by 5am. I hope you all have a lovely week. I won't be popping in as we will be computer-free (deliberately). We are just going to read, talk and drink French .

Hope you all have a lovely week.

Too late now but have a lovely holiday Toffee

Tired here as up with DS during the night - headache and nausea again :( Actually tried the anti-nausea medicine and declared it "absolutely disgusting" but it did seem to work. He has slept late, woken with a bit of a headache and decided not to go to gymnastics so curled up on sofa watching rugby (as we couldn't find any tennis)
Need to ensure lots of fluids and lots of sleep this w/e and see how we get on.

Did you get much sleep PA? Hope so.

Trying not to plan too much today but do need to shop for us (no bread or cheese of any sort though vast quantities of milk!! Rice pudding today methinks :)) Also need stuff for car boot sale refreshments tomorrow and Father's Day crafts for next week.
Will also attempt Morning routine, hoovering and as much tidying as I can fit in.

Have a good day everyone

Feetheart was thinking about your ds last night. Suffered the bastard headache myself but mine was trigger based - something i had eaten (cause known) was wondering if you son might be reacting to something he had eaten. there are a few foods that if i eat i will always get a migraine. Have you investigated this route? Hope he feels better soon.

Plan for today - pick stupid amounts of fruit ready for this years jam making.
Enjoy spending time with ds who is in a rare case of being like a saint. A happy smiley saint. So different to the mess i brought home early from hols due to behaviour!

Oh bloody hell. Work goes crazy, i go awol. That's that way it seems to be.

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Am going to catch up with the thread in a minute. I am currently on a train to Manchester to see Take That ( waves to chb). I am clearl quite excited. However i am almost as excited about the prospect of 24 hours where i will primarily not be a teacher, a mother, a wife, a cooker, a cleaner, a washer woman etc. I shall just be me. I shall stay in a posh hotel, i shall quaff wine to my heart's content and genrally be a proper grown up .

I cleaned all downstairs and the bathroom last night and then promptly trashed it this morning whilst getting ready. Ds is on a beaver sleepover tonight so i also had to get all his stuff ready. In my head, dh will have it all spick and span when i get home. Not sure i fancy my odds!

Anyway, am going to have a read of what you have all been up to!

I have heard that it is epic Ellie, and that you shouldnt be disappointed. So many people i know have gone to see it.

I am sick and tired of trying to negotiate with terrorists toddlers.

CHB - thanks for thoughts and ideas. Am trying to keep a close 'diary' of events etc in an attempt to see if anything can help us work out what is going on. Will bring food higher up the list!
Food triggers that I know of - strawberries, oranges and chocolate. NO chance of him eating the first two, that would be FRUIT!!! Doesn't have much of the latter as isn't usually around much (as I would eat it all ) and often he prefers savoury stuff (strange child:))

ellie - enjoy being you and have a FANTASTIC time tonight.

CHB is it our thread that is epic and not to be missed or Take That?

ellie have the most AMAZING time!

Toffee too late but Happy Holidays anyway

Have dropped DD at her Rainbow Camp for the whole day (I had to help for the first part and assisted in a drumming session with a very fit instructor) It was so cloudy and dull here i sent her in her trousers, no suncream or sunhat or shorts but arriving there it was boiling. Borrowed suncream from someone luckily. Now back home it's cloudy and on the verge of rain and there's only 6 miles in it or so - weird. it's our schools summer fete today also so got out of that

Jusy going to do the ironing pile today but that's it for jobs. Am cooking toad in the hole for dinner tonight and still haven't mastered the art of cooking the sausages and batter together without burning the sausages or having uncooked batter soggy in the middle so I keep on trying - practice makes perfect so the old adage goes so that's see Any tips anyone?

See you later and enjoy your day.

Cheese is aparantly a common trigger too. Mine are the artificial food colourings, especially blue. Horrific horrific migraines from that trigger. I find chocolate actually helps when i have a migraine as i can suvive it a bit better if i run my blood sugar a bit on the high side. Not good but i trick i learnt when ds was smaller and the option of sleeping it off wasnt available due to his needs. These days there are so bad that i have a preventer migraine med and a reliever migraine med. Weather can trigger them too when the pressure is heavy. There are so man causes that it really is about finding your cause.

Oh and migraine is what i am referring to when i talk about the bastard headache. It sums up how i feel about it.

Afternoon all.

We are all having a lazy day. Well, I'm trying to. Dh is asleep upstairs - overworked and generally exhausted - not helped by taking on extra chores that I would usually do had the doc not signed me off work for two weeks. DD had a fantastic but very long school trip yesterday, came back with her eyes shining saying it was "the best-est magic day" - had trouble getting to sleep last night as over-excited - up at crack of dawn this morning saying she was "starving" - now also curled up on sofa resting (hopefully asleep in a bit). I've just tidied up the kitchen and am about to do some laundry and sewing. Have cancelled all social engagements/entertaining this w/e and next. Have to sit on my hands so I don't go out and start gardening - loads of things needing to be done - itching to do them - but still have this horrid rapid heart beat/dizzy feeling so guess must take doc's advice. So frustrating ... conscious that summer holidays will be upon us before we know it!

Happy holidays Toffee!

Ellie sounds fantastic - have a wonderful overnight trip!

Blue sounds like you need an Ellie-pac style evening!

Pink ages since I cooked toad in the hole so can't supply tips, but here is a Delia recipe and she is always pretty reliable on timings ...

Feetheart I was just about to suggest the same thing as CHB and ask if it could be allergy related? As nausea involved was going to suggest 'dairy' but that's not very helpful when you are just about to make a rice pudding... Hope you get to the bottom of it. Migraine at that age must be so rotten for him.

Meant to say lower down thread Whoknows that your ds sounds like a really lovely lad.

Swan did you get your Ipods sorted in the end?

Nicknacks how are you feeling today about the clutter? How is your action plan going?

Waves to Mummy Cinders PA Scatty and anyone else I have missed. Enjoy the weekend!

Forgot to say, glad the training went well CHB and enjoy the jam-making ...

oooh, .. wish you hadn't reminded me actually ....feeling frustrated again now, have blackcurrants in garden that need harvesting ...

Rain stopped play. had a marathon of monopoly deal and had to send ds away to do something on his own. He is very cuddly today. it is starting to drive me mad. he is just too big to be climbing all over me for a hug these days.

aw [sniff] never too big CHB [but heads off to supermarket to get supplies of calming for tonight]

[sniff] at Feetheart's daughter growing up too ...

... good to know about your ma and hysterectomy too (thank you!)

Bloomin 'eck, it's like sleeping beauty's castle here at the moment. I'm the one meant to be resting and everyone else is asleep! How does that happen???? Shall go and do something quiet like pairing socks ...

Keels over in the naughty corner

why oh why

did I marry a vet
he is always on duty.

and why did I buy ds the worst cd in the world..

Because it seemed like a good idea at the time cinders

Bastard Headache. Find me hiding in the naughty corner with earplugs later. No more cuddles. Ds is in a strop because i told him to leave me a lone for 30mins. His replie but i cant not cuddle you for that long. Arrrrrrgh!!!!!