Aiming high in April, babystepping our way to a cleaner house

[CatsSleepAnywhere]

Hi all, welcome to the new babysteps thread for April.

All newcomers welcome.

We have pointy sticks ----> to help get you moving and plenty of brews and biscuits on our Chat thread for in between jobs.

Please come and join us.

Night zoo - sleep well.

thanks for advice re: journal.

Have just eaten large amount of phish food - ta da.
Unfortunately it wasn't any of my lists...
Diet starts tomorrow

Yum!

Ta Da:

Dd has already decluttered her soft toy basket this morning [busmile]
I have read about 25 pages of "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" to the dcs which has made them giggle.
Now having some toast and a

Ta da's so far:

made bed
breakfast
showered and got dressed

Just going to have a coffee now.

Hope everyone is o.k. today.

ta das

washing upx3

washing done,hung up
another load ddone and hung up
3rd loads just gone in

hot spot front room

been for a walk and got newspaper

cajoled into playing babies "play ironing" when have loads to do!

Good lists everyone!

Ta Das:

Dd's wardrobe decluttered of all clothes either will never wear or don't fit.
Random tubs of junk hidden in dd's wardrobe sorted through and decluttered or assigned proper homes.

Doesn't sound like much but has taken since I last posted.

There is still stuff on her bedroom floor

Ta Da:

washed and dressed (hid in the bath til the dust settled as it was all kicking off)
Dw loaded and on
Kitchen table decluttered
Tiny bit of ironing tackled

ta das

more washing hung up

more washing in

lunch done and washed up

potentially de cluttered 2 cats from a sanctuary

Ta Dahs (a bit late):

Toddler & I dressed
Trains played with
Cats stroked
Two Bunny Cakes made
Toddler fed all required meals and snacks
Toddler down for nap and night time bed
Eggs hard boiled and then shrink wrapped
Email friend in Scoutshire re supplies for Wednesday's meet-up
Easter Basket for Toddler brought down
Finished wrapping sweets for plastic eggs

Ta das hère too...
decluttered mine and DD's wardrobe and took two big bags to charity
dyed three pairs of jeans so they're now as good as new
dyed a set of grey towels to a glorious tulip red
cleaned 3 bathrooms
tidied up hall so it finally looks ok
made beds
and for one glorious moment I thought DH was going to shine the sink but no he said it could wait till morning, so I did that.
Even had time for 20 min mediation and time to take elderly parents out for tea.

My house now looks better than when I had a cleaner! Ta dah (BIG money saving!!)
Still lots to do but I"m feeling rather smug. Thanks Fly ladies for the encouragement!

Wisteria feel very welcome to come and join us on our chat thread as well so we can get to know you [busmile] chat thread

Wisteria may I also ask how you went about dying the clothing? Did you do it in the washing machine? If so, did it dye the rubber seal on your washing machine as well?

oooh yes Wisteria please tell. I am TERRIFIED of dying any clothes due to other people's teenage incidents with their parents' washing machines.....

ta da

• cleaned up vomit
• WM/TD on constantly
• bugger all else

How is pukey pants getting on now bessie?

ok I think thanks carrots. She has kept some water, a cucumber stick, bread stick & a bf down since tea-time. She does keep making coughing/groaning type noises every hour or so, so we have to keep sneaking in to check she's not laying in a pool of vomit I can see I'm not going to get much good sleep tonight. How is your DS?

Happy Easter all. [bugrin]
Re: Dying - I use Dylon in the machine and follow the instructions which are:
put dye and salt and clothes in machine on a 40 machine. Repeat with laundry powder. Remove clothes. Clean machine by doing a wash with laundry powder and bleach.

As I write I've got my final load of dying in the machine.... grey dressing gown and other things are going purple!!

I'm on Day 6 of Babysteps so I'm off learn all about "hotspots". [buhmm]

Thanks Wisteria and Happy Easter to all of you too.

thought best show face and report

ta das

up,washed and dressed
breakfast
stroll local shop for newspaper
egg rolling down stairs
washing on
downloaded colouring pictures
decluttered 3 hot x buns with lashing butter
decluttered chocolate
contemplating whats for lunch

Not many Ta Da's today as I felt very sleep deprived this morning. DD has been waking us up far too early the last couple of mornings.

Done washing up x 1
made beds
cooked dinner.

Am off in a minute to try and do some more washing up then it will be bath and bedtime for the DC.

Ta Das:

Mostly listing stuff on ebay and galavanting with the dcs trying to cheer up the household after this mornings calamities.

Facilitated the baby carrots making easter nests.

Being grumpy [bugrin]

NOw I understand why we're meant to shine our sinks before bed because last night I didn't and the kitchen looks horrible this morning. [busad] So I'm hiding from it by I'm net surfing instead.

My excuse for the slatternly behaviour: we had a big supper and there wasn't enough room in the dishwasher for everything and I couldn't be bothered to wash it all by hand... .
At least I'm up and dressed. Ok on with the marigolds [bugrin]

Morning Wisteria. I learned the sink shining lesson the hard way as well.

Ta Das:

Guinea pigs cleaned out (always pre bath/shower)
Dcs breakfasted and dressed.

I am just having my breakfast now.

morning everyone!

i can stand the mess and slattrnly behaviour no longer[bugrin]

ta das
up,washed and dressed
bins and recycling out
2hours ironing
swept stairs and polished banister/woodwork
helped ds clean under his bed
supervised him flying his room
helped dds clean under beds
supervised cleaning their room
washed ds and dds floors
cleaned bathroom
cleaned bathroom floor
hot spot front room

am now taking a stroll to the shop with the zoolets for bread