April Fledglings Fly into Spring, Get That Clutter into the Bin

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Welcome to the April 2012 Fledgling Flyers thread. Come and join us for a bit of chat and a lot of housework (or possibly the other way round).

A huge "thank you" to SanguineChompa for leading us through March

If you're house is a mess and you are strugging with C.H.A.O.S. (can't have anyone over syndrome) and S.T.U.F.F. (something that undermines family fun) then this is the thread where we (loosely) follow the step-by-step Flylady housekeeping system (in our own, unique, relaxed style) with lots of chat and support along the way.

We advise not signing up to receive the Flylady e-mails as you will be inundated! All the information you need will be linked here on a daily basis. Feel free to browse the Flylady website as well, links below

From the first of the month, we will be following Flylady's tips on restoring order to our homes, and as we are all at different stages we will be using one of the following methods:

• repeat or start baby steps

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

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

More info here and here!

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

Done:

Home ed (media studies ; times tables revision; metaphors and similes for English, read 'Holes')
Crisis clean in house as MIL coming round to babysit later
Lunch

DS1 and I are just off to walk our neighbour's dog. Wish me luck.

Toffee good luck. :) hope ds1 enjoys...hope ds1 is distracted enough to go a bit further than usual :)

Trying - I was thinking more about revenge than irony :o

Toffee - hope you and DS1 and borrowed dog get a bit further than yesterday

I've just walked the dog! Lovely windy, rainy BIG park which involved driving so have achieved my "Have a Go" quota for the day.
Although I was brought sharply to my senses by one dog owner saying So, what do you want the dog to do, bring you a cup of tea? [ I think I was hovering rather uselessly, saying dog's name over and over, with no clear command The dog has got alarmingly big and bouncy so I was worried that he was going to squash someone's beagle puppy. It appears that anxiety/fluffing around is not permitted in dog owning society - an excellent lesson.

Trying that sounds like me, I seem to get no further than the first task, but at least tomorrow that task is achieved, so you can go onto the second...ifysim

There's all this food in the fridge, but my mind has gone utterly blank as to what I should can be bothered to do with it.. will get back to you later on that.

Walking the dog was a huge success! DS1 chatted happily to the dog's owner (smiling and making eye contact ), then happily took the dog all round the block. He would have gone further, but because we walked near the dog's home, he thought it was time to go back and wouldn't budge until we took him home. This means we will have to walk him further away tomorrow, thus drawing DS1 well out of his usual comfort zone. Hurray! The dog was a sweetheart - very loving and obedient.

Toffee fantastic!! The dog project is looking good. Suggest you ask dog owner where she got her dog from...breeder may have some more like that one...!

Swan where does your dog go? Must have missed the post containing that info! Dog won't squash them...beadles very sturdy...people often concern themselves about ddog1 as a little terrier around their big dog, but it does her good to get squashed on a regular basis . They learn to get out of the way. I usually take mine for an hour long walk, I take them to two regular places and I know what distance to walk, makes you look purposeful but when no one is around I often sit down and watch dogs play rather than walk! Take a toy next time or one of those ball flingers.

Just had a first here...a 3 way dog and cat fight!! Dogs fighting (not hurting but very intense and nasty sounding) cat then joined in?!?!? Stopped the dog fight, then stalked towards ddog2 who clapped tail between legs and cried! Bless. Think cat has ddog2 cornered in hall...best go rescue...

Done
bedding (just ours to do now) in wash
hoovering done!!

To Do
Shower
DW
Tidy away everything and grocerys
Put mouse back in dd1 bedroom
rescue ddog2

Whoknows how are you doing? Decided tea yet? Do you really have more than one dh?

Trying, one's enough thank you, not sure where that S came from! We are having crispy fried chilli chicken with cashew nuts for tea. My usual policy when I get too pissed off with trying to work round the rest of them is to just cook something I like and stuff them all.

Toffee - well done DS1. Bodes well for when you become dog owners yourselves. Arf at "media studies" might do some of that later myself. If I watch The Apprentice that would also be Business Studies.

I am just having to pinch myself. When we made our wills last year the solicitor told us to get our life assurance policies that we took out years ago put in trust. Of course we had lost all the documents long since, I have been putting off making the call to the insurers as I thought I would get passed from call centre to call centre, tutted at for not having the docs, generally fobbed off and charged a lot of money. So just now I made one phone call, no hanging on the line, got straight through to a very helpful man who just took a few details and promised to sort it all out at no charge whatsoever. Makes a nice change!

That is lucky whoknows

for toffee's ds1. fabulous.

Feet did you take revenge in the end

Glad you survived Carp

No nap here. Council person decided that slot was perfect for running loud mower and strimer around. 15mins lie quiet and be instead with 15mins crochet through the din. Must shoot off and get ds so not late. Sooooo tired. Suspect PA and feet are in no better state either. More anyone?

Shit is that the time.

Must. be. gone.

Hello - huge wing flaps to all - lots of animal inspired posts here today

Great news about dog and your ds1 Toffee That's brill!

Arf at image of dog bringing Swan a cup of tea!! (Well, one can dream )

Oh dear re: Feetheart's industrious cat ...

And "concern" re: Trying's rescue bear .... [sniff] [sniff]

Sorry - no time for any more personals. Minor miracle has occurred. DD has finished her hwk for Thurs and Fri and it is only 4.35 pm on Wed afternoon (dc don't go to school here on wed pms) Can't believe it!!

We are now going to make chicken cacciatore together.

Only blip on horizon is I have to make Pegasus wings by Friday? Arrrggh?? Any ideas???

Huge waves to everyone else!!

Sanguine Bamboo canes with stoppers onthe end so they don't poke out other childrens eyes...white sheet attached lots of white feather boas? Maybe have a [redbull] and let your mind take wing!

what is chicken cacciatore?

Whoknows, nice sounding tea, can you put some out for us to try? Amazing re docs...I put of paperwork like that forever too...

Bitchy get there in time?

Got to go and 'tut' some carrot up...arguing going on round me.... Ddog1 snaffled dd2's scone because she put it on sofa...que hysterics...

dd1 going to use peeler on carrot now...best go see to that...!

Trying SC I told dh that I was cooking chicken cacciatore last week on holiday only to be told it was impossible as it was a speciality of small Italian restaurants and involved a lot of crushed peppercorns and charcoal (therefore not possible in wilds of Westmeath) - I thought it was somethign with white wine and tomatoes in a sort of stew - so I'm interested in your answer.
In fact I am going to attempt some sort of chicken stew with ds1 this evening.

Toffee glad that went well.

All quite relaxed here now, kittens playing and purring again, dog has gone for today, homemade icelollies enjoyed

Feet be strong with your authorized absence - the no of "good" parents who take au ab at our school would make your hair curl, and the HT seems to have an "official" line and an unofficial Especially if your dd has put up with so much from the teacher changeover.

well I've just googled chicken cacciatore and it is definitely stew, don't know what dh was on about (he is an Italian food snob, and hates stew in any form)

Nope. he was sat in the classroom reading. I have form for being late. I am one of those parents one day, just one day I will managed more then 2days on time. At least we were on time this morning. Despite ds being so convinced we wouldn't be. Yawned my way there and back though. ds want an earlier night. it made my day.

Finish paperwork for meeting - VERY URGENT!!!!!! done
Discover important piece of paper is mising done
Go on mad hunt for said piece of paper, including using very colourful language done
Find stupid piece of paper done
Job applications sent done
tackle bedroom some more
meeting in next town just leaving
School run morning done
School run afternoon done
Shopping in second town done
finish laundry mountain tackling
sleep done scheduled nap fail but did grab an hour post school run pre tea - still feel like death
Pot plug plants
Figure out what to do with runner beans that are getting HUGE. done - they are simply going to have to start being toughened up and go out. Same with broad beans (although at least those are a dwarf variety)
15mins crochet done
get cross with excessively loud lawnmowers and strimmers done
cook bacon and egg and reheat left over sausage done
Look at ds with complete disbelief whilst he stared at tea as if it was something he had never seen before done
Crawl into PJs with plan to go to bed asap done

Just to clear my brain, which tbh is clearly far past its best, here is Thursday's list

To do
up and functioning
morning school run
paperwork
hit the kitchen
plant potatoes
plant up plug plants x40 less those culled natural selection me forgetting to water them
plant up runner beans for hardening off
stick runner beans and broad beans outside for the day
water house hold plants
clean washing pile
more laundry
recycling out
deal with a file for old uni notes
some crafting - take some with me to training?
afternoon school run
Take equipment to shop for sorting out new piece (size needed off it)
ds to training
ds in bath
training kit wash
15mins on my room?
ironing?
put clothes away
Go to bed at a reasonable time

Well, DH is reading to DS before he goes into his cot, and I have a glass of and am lying on the bed (our room is downstairs) flagging. Oven is on to stick dinner (pasta bake) in.

Been one of those days as DH went back to work, and it was the first day without GP's so DS spent most of the day being a grumpy little sod boy. Not unexpected, but bloody tiring; especially as he had a nuclear meltdown when I tried to get him dressed to go to the supermarket and then the park Finally gave in and we stopped in. Suspect he is overtired having had so many people about and just wanted to chill.

Toddlers tomorrow though, so we'll see how that goes! maybe he'll actually nap properly after it - apart from the not being able to nap for long as otherwise his bedtime is screwed

Ah well, tomorrow is another day - this too shall pass!

oh dear oh dear oh dear...

Back story:
Dh in family business, they did another business a favour and by way of thankyou gave a nice bottle of wine, a very nice bottle of vintage 2001 vin rouge.

It is double ordinary size 150ml...enormous bottle...dh suggested to his mother that he have it all or they halve it...she decided to halve and just given him the half bottle, sacrilege! It now has to be drunk before it turns to vinegar!!...he drives on an evening to work...he can't drink til saturday...DOH!!! She knows this so um...well I have stepped into the breach to drink it. It has an aftertaste of a Big Mac. Dh not impressed. Apparently vintage wine should not taste of MaccyD's....

So I would appreciate it tomorrow if hushed tones are used...

Thank you. And goodnight.

I have a list!!!!! I actually have a fucking ta da list to post!!!!! I am actually posting!!!!!!

Before i explain absence i am going to write ta da list in case it was a figment of my imagination.

Ta fecking da:-

Tidy living room
Tidy dining room
Cook dinner
Washing on x 2
Drier on
Ironing for morning
Clean kitchen
Clean bathroom
Pack bookbags
Tidy hallway

In your face fat fairy.

Now i've got that out of my system apologies for absence. We didn't get back from the caravan until late Sunday evening and i have got swept away in the shock of returning to work. It was bloody hard work going back as well!

Nevermind, equilibrium is restored. Routines re-estblished..... sort of. I would say i am going to read all posts but i might struggle. Hope we are all ok.

Back later!

Thanks, Carpe.

Was going to go to zumba, but friend decided she needed an early night instead and I have had two glasses of wine and gone off the idea.

Maybe next week....

oh and vat of on bar...maccyd's aftertaste do you think?

trying how very kind of you to help dh and mil out. How utterly selfless of you.

Toffee two glasses already? Respect.

Ellie hi, did you have a good time? Did you go ape?

enjoy Trying.

fucking hell well done Ellie

Toffee meh excercise is inherritantly bad for you.

Areyouinpjsyet? Areyouinpjsyet? WHYthefucknot? Bed. NOW. Imeannow. Areyouinpjsyet? Areyouinpjsyet?

Bedtime is going so very well here

bitchy if i was a sensitive soul, i could get upset at the blatant shock at me actually flying. Is he in hisfeckingpj's yet.

trying we did not go ape. Well not the actual acitivity, dc's too young. Did go ape at dc's several times though.

toffee we had a lovely time actually. It is just a caravan by the seaside but just being there relaxes us all and makes for some lovely family time. Weather was shite though.

yes. thank fuck

Tbf Ellie you have done more actual flying then me today. I have done stuff, but not sure the fat one would consider it to be flying.

40+ posts since this morning, round up may be partial or incomplete!

Talk amongst yourselves (you are all so good at it!), I'll be back after the Apprentice.

Bitchy - strawberry ice cream. Every time.

bitchy chocolate biscuits crumbled over strawberry ice cream