Back to Fly school for September Fledglings

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Welcome to the September 2011 Fledgling Flying thread! Hang up your microfibre cloths and park your buckets here!!

[Sorry - I've namechanged again - but remain SC]

This is where from the 1st of the month, we attempt to declutter and follow the 30-step wisdom of Flylady (minus cutesy language and a surfeit of e-mails) with lots of chat and support and mutual motivation along the way. (More info available here )

Humungous thanks to our previous thread leader Blue for navigating us all through the August school holidays...and for doing it so consistently and well!!

As usual we will be following a three-pronged approach - and don't worry - we are all at different stages. Some of us (SC stares at feet) -are even embarrassingly stuck at decluttering stage after two years

• repeat or start baby steps (again!)

• repeat baby steps + do 15 mins a day decluttering in the current zone

or

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

All newcomers welcome!

Sc DS can't pronounce the letter L very well, hence he wrote that something was briyiant instead of brilliant the other day, glad its not just him. Stupendous effort on the roundup BTW, much appreciated.

Whoknows my DS can pronounce 'l', well he had to really, because he always used it in place of 'y' as in 'lello lowy' (that's yellow lorry for the uninitiated and no he also can't pronounce 'r') .

Haunted keeping standards high!

Morning. Today has not quite gone to plan due to ds being up every hour on the sodding hour and starting the day at 5am. Poor Dsis was babysitting and had to start her day unexpectedly early.

done
Up
Ds up
Find ds' uniform
Training
Sort stuff out for saturday's comp
School run (got back in time to turn around straight out the door)
Book hair dresser's appointment
Get showered and changed
Have breakfast
Get hair cut.
Drink lots of coffee - more is still needed
Sort out repairs to kit.
speak to elderly neighbour who rang.
Speak to father who rang.
Plan what to do about my room which just doesn't work.
Sort out what the frig we are supposed to be putting in the new bin we have had delievered.
Sort out christmas present plans for the parents with dsis.
Figure out what to do for tea.

rowing - You confused me. Are you sure you mean me with DH away? Cos I don't have a DH. Its just me and ds in a shared house situation thing. I get a whole week of just me and ds which is going to be fabulous as other people are really annoying me atm - i suspect it will turn out to be pms.

Right to do:
Some project hand stitching
Sewing machine stitching
More project hand stitching
washing
Ds' bedding
Put clothes away.
Ds' homework but suspect he will be too tired for it tonight
Some decluttering in my room.
Ring hospital when have found patient id/which blooming consultant we are under.
Early night. Knackered

7 rooms. 8 room rescues (1 needed double time)....and now I am off for a shower

I am back in with the fat fairy with a vengeance :)

oh dear Ouch poor ds and you.

done
long discussion about new garden shed games room
feel sick, beetroot has disagreed with me

Dh has sorted garden rubbish - it took him 10 mins!
And bought some electrical bulbs, and mended light in kitchen.

Feeling more and more bleugh unfortunately.

Toffee still, nice to have him at home again

....and breathe.....

...picks up puzzle book and waits patiently for EA...

On the topic of speak issues Ds still struggles with r and w. they come out the same. We have exercises to do with him but I suspect this is going to have to be raised with someone if it continues. Mind you as we still have to sort the bedwetting thing it can wait a teeny bit longer as I am more concerned with that.

Blooming heck Haunted want to come do my house whilst you are at it?

need more coffee.

To do
Dressed + Brekkie me and DS DONE
morning routine which is (for me, in case I forget a bit)
Kitchen - washing up, s&s, sweep DONE
Bathroom s&s, sweep Swept, but lightbulb gone so...
washing in DONE
washing out 1000,000 pairs of socks!!! Aaargh! DONE
new load in DONE
Sort out and Post 2 letters for car insurance
lunch
vitamins
I should write this on a post-it shouldn't I - only have cyberman post-its!

vacuum sitting room
shampoo bit of carpet near door and near Telly

put away clothes

declutter my clothes drawer for 5 mins
5 minute room rescue sitting room DONE
dinner? what is it!?!?!
bicycle in car
pickup DS drive to park pedal to possible new class for a nosey
make a little garden plan for this week.

Hi again
Ouch sorry, I'm such an idiot! I had read Ihatecobwebs post and yours was the next post so I got all mixed up.
I do like reading everyone's posts, but I find it tricky to reply - must employ a secretary to help me sort out my flylady posts.

Quick coffee then out for shopping/school run

Arf at dc mispellings/mispronounciations!

Thank you Whoknows Have a good day!
Good luck with your list RowingBoat! Well done on the sock front!
Oh no, sorry you are feeling rotten Swan. Hope you are not going down with something.
Well done on humungous efforts this morning Haunted (it's getting better, but over here people don't seem to bother about tidying up their houses for estate agent photos. When we were house hunting we use to (v hypocritically) comment on the mess and the socks drying on the radiators for all the world to inspect!!)
Sorry you had such a broken night Ouch. Hope the day gets better for you.
Toffee sorry to hear your ds is ill but brilliant about him still wanting to go to school! Hope he recovers quickly.

Must dash. Will try and be back on here at a reasonable hour tonight!

No worries rowing just you aren't the first person to have married me off this week and I was beginning to wonder if i had forgotten something important

As for personals I really struggle and don't know how SC manages it to do the roundup.

Thanks for the round up SC.

Afternoon all.

Apologies for lack of personals today. I'm having PC issues

Morning routine was so much better this morning. Had put a load of washing to dry and another load in, done 15 minutes flying and put ham to slow cook before school. Usually we are lucky if I've managed to get us both dressed and fed in time.

To Do list

• Morning routine Done
• Shopping for bits forgot yesterday done
• Buy a new timer as DD broke previous one Done
• Cook ham in slow cooker Done
• Dry late night washing Done
• wash towels Done
• mission - both todays and yesterdays
• 27 piece fling
• hoover stairs
• Cook tea - Seabass and roasted veg
• 15 minutes room rescue in spare room
• evening routine

I've had a phone call this morning as well asking me to to supply on Friday morning. Its only for the morning but its the first piece of supply that i've had so quite excited (and nervous) - Now need to arrange morning childcare for Friday.

Right will hopefully catch up tonight when PC is behaving and Imight be able toscroll without pages shutting down on me. Hope everyone is having a good day.

wow, haunted. i need a lie down after reading your morning! selling is such an odd business. you wouldn't get away with socks on the radiators here sc - it's really common to employ a staging company to get your house ready for listing (gulp) and there are all sorts of weird and wonderful 'musts'. my fave is that you have to have one kitchen cupboard completely empty so that potential buyers can judge depth/ space etc.

so it's just as well we can't get the finance to move in the near future, really.

will post lists later - in a rush!

Oh bloody hell. It's going to be a long week. In fact it is going to be a long month. Kick my ass if I get too whiney about ds and sleep, or more accurately lack of.

List update.
done
Up
Ds up
Find ds' uniform
Training
Sort stuff out for saturday's comp
School run (got back in time to turn around straight out the door)
Book hair dresser's appointment
Get showered and changed
Have breakfast
Get hair cut.
Drink lots of coffee - more is still needed
Sort out repairs to kit.
speak to elderly neighbour who rang.
Speak to father who rang.
Plan what to do about my room which just doesn't work.
Sort out what the frig we are supposed to be putting in the new bin we have had delievered.
Sort out christmas present plans for the parents with dsis.
Figure out what to do for tea.
Sort out problem with med side effects
Some project hand stitching - got one project finished, half done the project handstitched intended, working on another project atm.
Speak to ds' teacher
sort out school letters

In an ideal world will get around to do:
Sewing machine stitching
More project hand stitching
washing - must get school uniform wash. Boys are mucky critters.
Put clothes away.
Ds' homework but suspect he will be too tired for it tonight
Some decluttering in my room.
Early night. Knackered -hahahahaha

nesbit:
Ds' bedding - reliably informed it wasn't wet this morning so doesn't need doing today. tomo will do for this.
Ring hospital when have found patient id/which blooming consultant we are under. - can't find paperwork

Been to work for the day, so just getting started on the list. Slight panic this afternoon when I had a phonecall at work from my DM saying that the buses weren't running so she hadn't collected DS (4.5) from school! By now it was just picking up time, so I said goodbye, put down the phone and phoned a friend who has DC at same school. Thankfully she was still in the playground so able to collect mine with hers. DS wasn't at all bothered by change in pickup, but I was having images of DS left alone in the playground, not knowing what to do ....

Just not sure what my boss thought when he got back from his meeting to a note saying I had a pickup emergency at school and had left - will find out tomorrow

Done not a lot really
Morning routine
DS to school
Me to work
Collect DS from friend
Tidy kitchen
Clean washing away
Washing on airer
Make beds
Phone dentist
Make tea

Still to do
Tea
Evening routine
School book reading with DS
Zone cleaning/declutter
s/s
Washing in machine
Find spark arrestor supplier - very important
WI paperwork
Prep WI banking
Exercise
Work and school bags for tomorrow
Birthday cards

My pleasure Ouch! No ass-kicking from me today - you have done brilliantly to get through that list!
SC cackles hysterically at Madwoman's explanation of staging companies and empty cupboards in kitchen. (Just as well no one would buy our house 'cos it is full of holes and bits keep falling off ).
Congrats on your smooth start to the day MC and on your first bit of work!!!! All your perseverence paid off!! Great news!!!!
How did it go Haunted?

CNettle any news of your mil?

Back later

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Ihate oh no that must have been stressful. Glad your ds got home OK. It's always nice to have a friend in the playground I'm sure your boss will understand (if he is anywhere half decent anyway!)

Good evening

sc thanks indeed for roundup. Mil doesn't start treatment till tomorrow afternoon. I think we all feeling a bit funny about it, if you know what i mean.
mad at staging company for house sale.
toffee great that ds still wanted to go to school. Has he managed homework ok?
ouch hope you get some sleep tonight, well don on humngous lists.

Huge waves to everyone else ive missed today.

List update

Get up dressed/s&s-done
Get dh to take ds to school-done
Dw/wm/td-done eventually
Make cake-bought some instead
Make Lego toys-nope
Buy Lego city box/mat-nope
Take bags of toys to charity shop-done, yay
Have coffee and cake with friend-done very nice
Make chilli in slow cooker-done but not organised enough for slow cooker
Meet the teacher at school-done but late quite annoyed should have had meet the teacher on first day if not before. Lots of of re traffic light system which ds has already been on a few times and other class structure which we could have helped ds to understand if we had known prior to meeting.
Pick ds up-done
Homework-done
Lay out clothes-done
Do ocado order-not yet
Chill time and bed.-not yet.

Also swept kitchen and dining room floor
Still to go to weight watchers and see what damage there is. Get dc to bed and probably dh who has already passed out on the sofa

I hope you all have a good evening. better do some lego building before bed.

goodnight all

Hope your MIL gets on OK tomorrow, nettle; will be thinking about you all.

The DC are finally quiet and I must make the effort to get to bed a bit earlier tonight (it was midnight before I collapsed into bed last night). DD2 was very tired this afternoon and having major tantrums over her homework; I suggested she go for a lie-down and she wanted me to go with her. I was on the verge of falling asleep myself (unlike her!) and really had to force myself to get up again.

The English lesson went well today; I didn't get through half of what I'd prepared, so that will save some time next week. The children also all complained that their parents were too early when they arrived to pick them up and that the time never went that fast at school, so I think it went down well with them too. Am now considering starting a second group after school on Fridays.

Am managing to keep the house relatively tidy, downstairs at least, but missions and decluttering are being sadly neglected at the moment. I still have two English lessons to prepare for school on Thursday, but am hoping next week will be quieter as I'll only be teaching at school fortnightly this year. (I know this probably sounds pathetic to any teachers on the thread - how can teaching for two hours a week be so time-consuming?)

Oh, and the bee is falling apart already. Not sure whether I should go back to the shop and complain, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing (particularly not in German).

Before-school routine done
School run done
Breakfast done
Tesco delivery due - put shopping away done
Morning routine done
Finish yesterday's home clean-up (hoovering, polishing and wiping mirrors) mostly done
Crisis clean / room rescues done
Prepare lunch done
Lunch with friend done - lovely time
School run done
PM routine done
What's for dinner? Easy stuff tonight - fish fingers done
Evening routine doing
Bed at decent hour

DS1 much better now. Am hoping he'll be fine for school tomorrow. His tutor told me today that DS had put himself forward for class representative. He didn't win, but he came second . I'm so proud of him!

Bathtimes and bedtimes now...

Up dated list

To Do list

• Morning routine Done
• Shopping for bits forgot yesterday done
• Buy a new timer as DD broke previous one Done
• Cook ham in slow cooker Done
• Dry late night washing Done
• wash towels Done
• mission - both todays and yesterdays Done
• 27 piece fling Done
• hoover stairs done
• Cook tea - Seabass and roasted veg -DH home late so changed to make do freezer tea tonight and seabass tomorrow
• 15 minutes room rescue in spare room -Nope
• evening routine Done

Ouch hope you get some sleep tonight
Toffee thats great about DS, shows such progress. Hope he is well enough for school tomorrow
Linzer Great about English lessons, sounds like they were a big success
Nettle hope things go well tomorrow with MIL
Hope everyone else had a good day. Waves to everyone, deposits left over and choccies from birthday weekend in naughty corner and I'm off to spend time with DH before bed.

Hi everyone

Going to do early links and round-up tonight to make up for yesterday. Also, I need to get to bed and it's already 10.15 pm here. Still need to put clothes out for tomorrow etc.

Fuzzled and Swan hope you are feeling better

Glad your ds is on the mend Toffee

Cnettle sorry - I'm a day ahead of myself - will be thinking of you all tomorrow

Don't know why I accomplished so little today, probably too much chatting on the phone and general mnsetting fussing around ineffectually and eating cold crumble. Got to do better than this.

Today's list:
morning routine, inc dw, wm, s&s done
tidy master bedroom and put away clothes etc NOPE
shopping done
contact fortnightly ironing lady done
turn up 3 pairs tracksuit bottoms done 2 (took longer than I thought)
other sewing NOPE
make butternut squash and veg soup NOPE
half an hour decluttering in home office NOPE
contact parascolaire lady and fill out forms done
French study done
supper stir fry
meds done
exercise - not done and this is really stupid because I need to make time for it and I had time for it
hwk supervision - NOPE - forgot it was hwk club tonight - yippeee!!
evening routine nearly done
early bed

Baby-step number 21 for Wednesday 21st September is here One to ignore if you want.

All this week we will be Flying in Zone 4 (the master bedroom) here I should be setting a good example here but I'm not

The mission for Wednesday will appear here once the website updates itself.

But you can look here for a sneak peak at the missions for the week ahead.

Wednesday is anti-procrastination day!

Hi all!

Thanks SC for your evergrowing commitment to leading the thread! The round ups are getting longer and longer! :)

Will happily take a few dozen birthday chocolate from the naughty corner, thanks MC :)

Todays list

Up, dress and breakfast everyone done
School run done
Painting with mindees done
Lunchtime school run done
Lunch done
What's for dinner? Pork chops done
Afternoon school run done
Empty DW done
Text MIL re. moving done
S and S done
Laminate name cards done
Phone mum re. wedding done
Cook dinner and eat done
Bedtime routine for kids done
Load DW and turn on done
Washing load ready for tomorrow done
10pm bedtime About to do

Tomorrows list

Up, dress and breakfast everyone
School run
Pick up tester from B and Q
Empty DW
Put WM on
All clean clothes away
Lunchtime pick up
Lunch for mindees
Reasearch a new fridge
Pay Next bill
Transfer money to parents
Chase up parents late payment AGAIN!! :(
Pay in cheque
Take bins out
Go to library story time session
What's for dinner?
School pick up
Email Ofsted
Hang wet clothes on airer

And finally..... (I might make this a regular feature, it has a bit of a ring to it!) I've picked up that quite a few of you are abroad. Can I be nosey and ask where/why you are where you are? Are you DH's in the army or other work /family reasons? Feel free to ignore this Q if i'm too personal but its quite cool to get to 'know' you all.

Anyway need to just lay out clothes and then i'm crawling into bed. Good night!

nettie Reception protocol is very tiring isn't it The twins had two entirely different teachers in sep classes, one of whom was quite (nicely) strict but used to say that no child should have to sit still for longer than ten minutes on carpet as it wasn't natural! The other one had so many "naughty" children in her class that it was clear that she was making them "naughty" by upsetting them and telling them off all the time. Anyway I probably don't remember very well...The children however adored both kinds of teacher!

MC exciting about supply teaching on Friday, well done for making routines stick too...

not quite sure what happened today..feel exhausted by it anyway...
however "strategic planning" quite successful as have made one or two good decisions with DH
and DH instigated his Germanic "homeworkstraightafterschoolandthat's it!" model
Homework done, to a lower standard which is a good sign I think
fish pie cooked
football
washing
3 x PE kits readyish
ds1 stuff readyish, washed his blazer, retrieved Oyster and lunchcard just in time..
sorted recyling
sorted ds2 stuff for Residential Course in two weeks (hanging onto so many manky clothes just for the course which is all mud etc)
rejoiced that ds joined Choir at school (only three people!) Chess club and is now going in tomorrow for Open Day to show off his Badminton

[clunk] gong to watch telly now