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!

Hi all,

got a bit lost there, but found you now!

Nettie a maggot infestation sounds awful. I hope they have been evicted from the premises.

Idrilis I've just jumped back on and am (grudgingly) re-tracing my babysteps. Did the shiny sink thing, but I do have to adapt that because I wash up in the morning usually for various reasons so my shiny sink is in the morning.

Swan how's the cutting and pasting going?

Mrs Wooden top are you on day 2?

So I'm on day 2, should be 3, but didn't work out.

List
Shopping for fruit and bread - done
breakfast - done
washing out
new load on
washing up
wash kitchen floor
wash bathroom floor
S&S bathroom
S&S kitchen
Try to fix carpet shampooers - no more than 20mins
If fix shampooer, do bit by sitting room door
Formulate plan to deal with moths
Find source of horrible smell in kitchen and destroy!
Have another cup of coffee
lunch
vitamins
Babystep 1 + 2

TA-DA
Shower and dress
Swish and swipe
Boys to dress
Make beds
Tidy away
What's for dinner?
Zone job (either mission, detail or declutter)
Sort clean clothes and put away
Washing machine on

To Do
Babystep
Collect prescription
go to shoe shop for plimsoles
Clean kitchen
Pack toms lunch
Lay out clothes
Best add ironing on here too if I wanna stay on top of it!

Not going too bad today. Just having lunch and then we are off to a friends house.

Oh, didn't realise it was the 1st today and have just posted on the old thread .

Too much schoolish stuff whirling round in my head, I think.

Marking my place and will come back when life has calmed down a little.

Hi all,
back again
List
Shopping for fruit and bread - done
breakfast - done
washing out done
new load on done
washing up done
wash kitchen floor done
wash bathroom floor done
S&S bathroom
S&S kitchen done
Try to fix carpet shampooers - no more than 20mins
If fix shampooer, do bit by sitting room door
Formulate plan to deal with moths
Find source of horrible smell in kitchen and destroy! done - it was a pongy cloth
Have another cup of coffee
lunch
vitamins
Babystep 1 + 2 step 1 done
hang clothes on clothes horse to air done
put clothes away
Go online order 2 more school jerseys for ds
vertbaudet buy sandals and swimming trunks for next Summer in sale
check emails

Also found a micro-dermabrasion kit when looking for something else and have given myself a facial. [big red scrubbed face] done
Might dye my eyelashes too

Hi guys,still havent had a smoke,really wanted one on the way back from school but didn't.
so far my ta da list looks like this,
up dressed and breakfasts x3
dd to school on time
call into my mother for more breakfast
walk home
Supermarket
dishwasher

Still to do,
make dinner
collect dd and try to resist smoking with the other mums
Dreaded homework
etc etc etc

listen to this,dds new teacher is our next door neighbour!am sure this will be both a blessing and a curse. The threat of teacher living next door is up there with Santa in my book but am sure she will have heard me shouting at dd to sit down,tidy up,eat dinner,go to bed repeat ad infinitum!

Quick stop to check how everyone has been getting on:

Hello Toffee I was wondering where you'd got to!! Hope your ds isn't getting too worried by the prospect of school.

Messy well done for holding out! at teacher living next door. As you say, I'd find that, er, a bit inhibiting. We live in a terraced house and I'd be worried if she could hear when we were putting dd too bed late or allowing her to watch too much telly!

Rowingboat and Fuzzled I've also been doing some last minute personal grooming today so I look half way decent at school gate [shallow and vein emoticon]. Have definitely let things slide during the holidays. Many of the mothers at dd's school are thin, stylish and young Italian and Spanish ladies who speak five languages with ease ...and I feel woefully lacking in comparison. Not helped by the fact that I was determined to get below a certain weight during the holidays and er, I haven't ....

A warm welcome to Idrilis. Sounds like you are off to a great start and you'll find lots of wine drinking whinging and biscuit eating motivation on here

Keep going Silvery

Hi Silken arf re Nesbit. Ditto here!!

Waves to Swan [doppelganger alert] webs on hydrangeas here too and I am also consulting my dummies guide to computing for tomorrow!

Silvery I found the FatFairy book OK. I didn't think it particularly added anything new to the website although the information is easier to access. I know others on here found it more useful than I did. It does explain more about the overall philosophy though. My one bugbear is that it physically fell apart on me (pages came unglued from spine) and that wasn't, I can assure you, because of my assiduous attention to Flying.

Better get on. I got distracted this morning with sewing materials and spent longer shopping than anticipated. Now only a couple of hours before dd gets back from school. I forgot how short the day is! Better get cracking. Lots happening this afternoon/evening so I won't be back on until round-up time.

Keep at it everyone!!

morning routine done
post college forms currently filling in
submit gas/elec meter readings done
check monthly budget done
RSVP wedding
go to bank done
make cottage pie for DP
shine shine shine that sink done
meet DM for coffee at 3 ( may be needed) currently mentally preparing

Actually feeling a bit better about what I have achieved now I've come back and ticked things off my list. :)

right back on
Substantially there was an piece on the radio today about lots of mums buying a new outfit for the first day back at school, so you are not alone.
My school is quite scruffy so I suppose I'm quite lucky.
Am dying eyelashes as I type, probably end up looking like a cow.
What are you sewing?

S&S bathroom still not
S&S kitchen done
Try to fix carpet shampooers - no more than 20mins
If fix shampooer, do bit by sitting room door
Formulate plan to deal with moths - can't face this at the moment
Find source of horrible smell in kitchen and destroy! done - it was a pongy cloth
Have another cup of coffee having now
lunch having tuna sandwich now
vitamins next
Babystep 1 + 2 step 1 done
hang clothes on clothes horse to air done
put clothes away nope
Go online order 2 more school jerseys for ds done free postage on Tesco until 5th September
vertbaudet buy sandals and swimming trunks for next Summer in sale
Ordered sandals and a fake pair of boots to get free postage, which will be sent back straight away.
check emails half done
water tomatoes

Done
taken boys on long walk, and re-run bus journey for ds1 to school
popped into school reception and was reassured about him turning up first day with weak arm etc. His teacher seems to be called Mr Oh No. Oh No.

and chips in the park for all...(well Ds1 also had a tomato and mozzarella brown bread sandwich as concession to healthy eating)
talked to friend about her extension [she said it was v noisy! aah the things people only tell you after a while raving about their veluxes and their folding doors)

Rowing
no, I haven't even attempted it yet.

Have bribed ds1 with promise of Wii to keep reading Afghan refugee book till 3pm

messy if she's got children of her own she'll know the score
Having listened to teachers teaching I'm afraid they do sometimes shout of course in a very authoratitive way..

Afternoon.

Ds is busy with his Aunt who has come to visit babysit for a few days. Much and s need to sustain her as he is rather excited.

Been out doing nice stuff this morning. Going to have a nap

then:
early tea
ds to training
Snack/supper for ds
ds bath and bed at decent time
put rented dvds into post and re-add child dvd rental choices to high prioty list again.
Early night.

Welcome to the newcomers to the thread.
Wow at all the very productive looking lists.
Might pop back in later but trying to limit computer time. Especially close to bedtime, I am too easily distracted.

Happy flying!

rowingboat oh, definitely don't go that far, wear the scruffy ordinary clothes I put on for the day ifyswim, trying not to buy clothes for me atm until I've lost weight! Have wielded the tweezers and the hair-dryer though!!

Am currently sewing: one ragdoll (Victorian, complicated one) plus two sets of clothes + underwear for god-daughter, one ragdolll (less complicated) plus various clothes for dd, one mini patchwork quilt bed set + pillow and sheets for dd's doll's bed, one drawstring ballet bag, one big, sturdy canvas holdall for lugging horse riding stuff about in. Trouble is, I am doing them all at once and don't have dedicated sewing room = chaos!!

Whyistherum well done!!!

Must go - school run!!

rowing once had to tackle moths in old house. Did following.
ruthlessly throw out anythign with moth, unless I was prepared to dryclean, or hot wash it. Also I put some things in freezer in plastic bag for good measure.
moved furniture and hoovered underneath like crazy, as moths don't like sunlight, and hide in crevices, dark corners.
Put some moth balls in every loft storage bag despite foul smell, just to stop moths taking over loft
never hung up once worn clothes in cupboards as moths like pheremones
also ruthlessly inspected cane furniture, furniture with animal glue, old rugs, old upholstery, feathers that sort of thing and chucked if necessary, or scrubbed down with hot soapy water in garden

x posts

helloooooo to Ouch and Swan while scrabbling for car keys ....

mooooorning!
there is snow on the mountains outside my window. when the cloud cleared last night (in freaking august, remember) there it was. beautiful. but oh. my. god!

anyway, to fly:

babystep
finances day! pay mastercard, loan, e-mail bank re payoff figures.
laundry (lots of very wet bedding )
grocery shop
walk dogs

and just for a bit of light entertainment, todays de-clutter will be finishing the sodding dining room (!) and starting the kitchen. gazillion fish slices and all.

and you lot have posted 90 times on this already. on the 1st. so now i've got something to read with my cup of tea later.

Sorry to disappoint!

Hi all! I hate to be lame so early on in the month but very busy evening ahead so no time for personals. Its DD's 1st birthday tomorrow and presents are wrapped but i just want to decorate the house a little.

Tomorrow we are having our family fun day as DH and I both have the day off. After all the present opening we going swimming and then out for lunch and a spot of shopping! Then all the family over for tea,cake and cuddles and then they'll all be back again for a huge BBQ to celebrate.

Todays list

Everyone up, dressed, breakfasted done before mindees arrived at 8.30am
empty DW done
WM on done and hung out, brought in, folded but not put away
Wrap presents done
Post parcel done
Dinner done
Tidy kitchen, DW on and shine sink done
Tidy and hoover downstairs done

Not much i know but although i'm at home (for those who don't know) I'm a CM so had 6 kids to entertain, feed, clear up after too, so

9.5 hours of paid work done

Tomorrow list

Have fun with DD celebrating one full year of life! :) Have a good day everyone- happy FLYing!!!!

messy well done for another day fag-free
I'm sure your dd's teacher would have heard worse from parents than whatever you do! I'd be forever threatening my child with "Miss xxxx can hear you, she'll tell you off at school tomorrow"

Had a very productive day today.
TA-DA
Shower and dress
Swish and swipe
Boys to dress
Make beds
Tidy away
What's for dinner?
Zone job (either mission, detail or declutter)
Sort clean clothes and put away
Washing machine on
Babystep
ironing
go to shoe shop for plimsoles
Clean kitchen

Nesbit (am I using that right?)
Collect prescription
Pack toms lunch
Lay out clothes

Ta-da!
Hoover and mop floors done - inc. Tue's detailed living room mission. :)
chase up builder will give him another day!
Aldi shop done
Charity shop bag to drop off done
Send off 2 translation projects done
Start on tedious work-related stuff I was too busy for before... started...
Washing done and folded
Yesterday's laundry away
Cooked and ate dinner en famille for once
S&S x2
clean kitchen

To do
Tidy desk
Experiment with lettuce soup...
Keep on catching up with laundry
Prepare sitting room for boisterous visiting boys tomorrow afternoon
Think of something the boys will eat for tea

All in all, a much more productive day today. Helped that the sun was shining, even if it's still on the chilly side. Friends coming over tomorrow afternoon who we haven't seen all summer so just got to survive the morning.

Messy - well done!

Happy birthday to your DD, NickNacks - hope you and she have a lovely day. :)

Madwoman at snow! DS1 would be though- he's longing for snow!

Waves madly to everyone else.

Hi all,
don't think I'll be doing much more flying today.
Swan that ruthless thing, I'm not really feeling very ruthless, but hopefully, tomorrow I will be feeling full of murderous hatred and will be able to tackle the moths. At the moment I feel like handing the house keys to the moths and going to live somewhere else.
Great advice though, all duly noted and tucked away in my head.

Substantially I like your list of projects, good for you! I go to a sewing club every so often and we quite often have projects which go on for years, they just keep reappearing. I have to keep lengthening things for DS because he insists on growing and my project becomes too small before it is even worn.

Going to read flylady to see what babystep 2 is. Probably hotspots?

Oh baby step 2 is getting dressed which I did, otherwise it gets a bit cold.
Nighty night!

I'm in....need to start with babysteps tho. Hello everybody

I have had a major declutter/spring clean/IY frenzy over lsast few weeks as hoping to put house on market. Could do with keeping onj top of it so hoping babysteps will help. DId start them AGES ago but didn't get past about day 20is if that.

I am, however cheatiogn on day 1...I have only just seen this thread and I am feeling poorly so my sink won' be shined...but will do 2 days in one tomorrow.

Oh and other HUGE caveat...I am starting a PGCE next week so although a routine is going o be a necessity I am not sure where I will find the time for this but I have to give it a try and you have to be stern with me.

Evening. I am just making tea.

Very late night tonight. Ds' training went on longer then i had realised. Although did discover that the washing up and shink shining fairies had been busy whilst we are out. Did I tell you my sis is fabulous?

done
Bought new type of wool and nearly completely knit a fancy looking scarf whilst watching training.
ds' training
Out somewhere nice
Sink shined -but not by me

Just about to go to bed. At a decent-ish time. Although not quite so decent by the time i have sorted out tea.

Hope you all have good fly days tomo. I shall be in and out with meetings and stuff tomo (from very early to very late so expect me to be in the naughty corner if I am here)

Night.

Evening all,

Haunted - welcome on board, sounds as though you will be right at home on this thread.

Well, my new resolve to do well in September went by the wayside a bit today because the weather was fabulous, DS went to football camp and I wanted to make the most of having a day on my own with DD. We went shopping, out for lunch to a cafe I used to take her to last year before she started school and while DS was at school, which made me feel all nostalgic for the pre-school days. Then an hour with friends in the park, picked up DS from football camp, which he has loved, he won a trophy and was very pleased with himself.

Er, Flying.

Basic morning routines done, a bit lax to only do that as we didn't leave the house till 9.45.
Shine sink - yes
Decluttering - did a bit of that in the hall, which wasnt too bad as a lot of it was cleared out for the front door being replaced a couple of weeks ago.

Hotspots - done a few
Detailed cleaning - nul points
Evening routine - not really needed as no work or school tomorrow.
I did follow Flylady advice regarding my kitchen table, hotspotted it and put a big bunch of flowers chosen by DD in the middle, it does look nice.

Oh, and I have started applying Flylady at work, the place I work is quite cluttered and hotspotty, so I have made a start there too. Funnily enough most of the women are entirely in agreement, most of the men have never even noticed and don't think it's their problem [sexist emoticon]

How many hotspots do you reckon you have in your house? I reckon I have got at least 3 hotspots in every downstairs room, plus 2 in my bedroom, the DCs rooms are just giant forest fires TBH. Most of the hotspots fill up with crap again within a day of clearing them, the others take about a week. How can I stop them? If I did them all every day it would take about an hour!

Ta Da
morning routine
post college forms
submit gas/elec meter readings
check monthly budget
RSVP wedding
go to bank
make cottage pie for DP
shine shine shine that sink
meet DM for coffee at 3 ( may be needed)

That's everything done for today, lets hope tomorrow is as productive.

To Do
morning routine
babysteps
DS to childminders
shopping
prepare dinner
clean kitchen surfaces
spend 15mins throwing away rubbish from around the house
clear dining room table
DS washing