Welcome to the ongoing Fledgling Flyers thread for September, thanks to Bitchy who kept us posted through August.
Right, most of you should know how this works. It's a three pronged attack.
Phase one: The babysteps master these and you will be working like clockwork.
Phase two: Adding in Decluttering this will help you keep on top of the amount of stuff contributing to CHAOS.
Phase three: Missions Targeted activities to keep the chaos at bay and starting the deep cleaning.
The golden duster of Flying is stage 4: deep cleaning. This is for most me anyway, somewhat unrealistic and in theory you don't need to worry about it until you have finished decluttering that's never then. Just do it if you want to.
Now for those of you who are completely lost, lets rewind a bit.
CHAOS: Can't have anyone over syndrome. We've all been there
The fly lady approach works by breaking the house down into tiny activities which you do repeatedly until they become habit and don't feel like chores any more. The house is split into zones, each zone is tackled for a week before moving on and comes round again at the start of the next month.
There are lots of experienced Fledglings on here, hence lots of advice and support and chat about anything except housework some days. the main thing is that you can post any time you like even if you haven't lifted a finger around the house that day because with Flylady you just pick up again the next day and off you go again.
We advise against signing up for Flylady emails as they can lead to a great deal of clutter in the Inbox, each days steps will be posted on this thread to save you having to find them yourself.
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It's September so the Fledgings Fly, as we wave our clutter bye bye
WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 30/08/2012 21:22
Carpe
Ta Da
School shoes shopping
ds to spend pocket money
15mins in my room
15mins ironing
Project part 1.
Realise this week is getting busier and busier without me doing anything
Project part 2
Toffee no idea where the love for maths comes from. I've always been good at it; finished junior school maths by the age of 7 (think I finished infants within the first year).
I was teaching the deaf girl in our class, in a quiet corner, by the age of 8!!
I guess when you are good at something it makes you love it because you get praise and recognition.
But algebra is a wonderful tool to work lots of things out. I try to use it as often as I can, often as I'm driving / in the bath 
A calculator is like a Rampant Rabbit to me, if I see one I HAVE to have it, grab it, it's MINE!!!
Ok, I sound really weird now
Never mind, hopefully none of you know me 
Evening! I've done a major declutter of the boys art stuff today, and turned an old shoe box and tatty gift bag into a lovely place to hide mobile phone chargers and related clutter. 
Actually, I've got a few more days for party planning as it's not till Sat. Only 2 other children coming to, so pretty straightforward. Mum phoned to say they'll arrive later than normal tomorrow too, so that all helps.
Off out to Zumba shortly as put on 2lb last week. I blame the 
, although the free BBQ, cake and ice cream won't have helped...
Will try and get back on and do personals later, but huge waves in case I don't manage it!
Well, it is safe to say that my brain has been fried today after 6 weeks of complete inactivity. 3 hours of exam analysis, literacy, quality assurance and performance management sucked what little enthusiasm I had out of me.
On the plus side, i have been quite organised. All packed lunches done, all clothes laid out, book bags found, children bedded and bathed and general tidy done. Tis not perfect but it will do.(my mantra where flying is concerned).
I'm afraid I haven't had time to read the thread as I must go and get some dinner.
at calculators and rampant rabbits!
Have managed list and feelIng very tired. Will watch Loraines fast fresh food and dream of when I can eat properly again. Have suspected gallbladder problem getting fed up of monotony of lentil soup then baked potato with baked beans
Hi all 
I've had an incredibly successful day, 27 items ticked off on my home routines app Think I might just squeeze in another 3 before bed
Busy day today:
Up, washing hung out.
Load in and hung out
Washed and dressed
DS dressed himself (yay!)
Breakfast dishes washed but not put away
Picnic made
Left for Paultons 15 mins later than intended but was fine
Long long day 
/
Came home put dishes away, washed up twice etc etc
Recycling put out,
Bin emptied
Washing brought in
Bath & hair wash with DS
Shattered
Just need to sort his nursery bag and I'm done.
Am I right in thinking you have a naughty corner?
The sink is semi-shiny
Sod the shoes
My e-mail account is always close to bursting as I never get round to deleting things that 'might be useful'. Flylady would kill it.
Ah well. Tomorrow is another day
Glad to hear of others success. I'm yet to experience the start of school rush for shoes and equipment so impressed by all this!
Can I ask what home routines app you use Whispers? Is it a flylady thing?
On the subject of Flylady's essays, they probably are on the website somewhere, I actually find some of them quite inspiring
. I did sign up to it early on but really didn't want 3 or 4 emails a day coming in, I just wasn't reading any of them. However I like the Flylady book - Sink Reflections, after floundering about at this Flying business for a couple of years I read it last year and it all sort of clicked. I hadn't really seen how the entire thing fitted together before that, just doing the missions and babysteps and being too lazy to ever make a control journal
Sounds as though we have some tired people on here today.
My day has been all upside down, couldn't do much Flying with plumbers underfoot but I did manage to tackle the paperwork pile and have reduced it considerably, also chucked out loads of old comics etc.
Plumber went about 4 after I jump started his van for him because he'd left the lights on. Took the DCs to town and had a pleasant hour in the park chatting to a friend whose DD is just as obsessed with Moshis as my two, so they all talked Moshi together, then home for a late dinner and into the school evening routine.
Ta-da!
3 loads of washing done, dried and put away
Clothes out for me and DCs for the morning
2 x packed lunch made (need to do dinner money for DD)
Laptop located for work tomorrow
PE kits checked, labelled and in place
Ditto rucksacks and bookbags plus holiday homework
New lunchboxes labelled
Washing up
Put Ocado shopping away
Read stories to DCs and tried to re-assure their nerves
I'm off to watch a bit of telly now and relax by making some Lavender wands to keep my drawers fresh.
Back in a minute with some links.
x-posted with Iburnt - arf at "sod the shoes"
Yes, there are usually a few Fledglings snuggled up in the naughty corner with and 
.
Tuesday 4th Sept.
Babystep Reminders on Post-It Notes I have never done this because Flylady suggests bathroom mirror and kitchen sink for it and both those places would mean that I risk all my frinds and family thinking I have finally lost the plot. Might be a good idea to put them somewhere else though.
Mission Wipe your cabinet doors. This makes a big difference in our kitchen and is easily forgotten about.
Now we are established in September, it's a good time to take a look at habit of the Month Before Bed Routines - mine seems to merge with the evening one half the time 
.
Have just had the most enoooormous spider in my dining room! Even DH (the resident spider catcher) admitted it was a biggie
. I don't like spider season.... Have managed to get DC into bed at fairly reasonable times in preparation for school. One more day... Am dragging taking them to a Tudor house tomorrow as there is a special event which will tie in neatly with DS1's Tudor history topic. Apart from that the day will be spent tidying and getting ready for school.
Have lost DS2's PE kit, as usual
.Right, off to do an Ocado order and then to bed. Night all.
[trails in wearily putting mud everywhere, and sits by Aga drinking sherry]
[oh I wish that were true, I'm back in London]
[okay, there is still mud here for some reason, but the sherry is not working]
okay, I'm back. I've lurked for last few days since returning from Ireland, (second trip), but haven't energy to post much, as it has all been used up trying to keep children occupied without proper mud quotient
today I have taken children to swimming, tennis, bicycling, cake making, drama (last two in my house alas) and dd has had friend here all day
ds has done another review for his holiday work, ds2 copied out half a poem
dd can now make a Victoria Sponge
house is a complete and utter tip, although cleaning lady came today after 6 weeks absence and did the ironing, and kitchen [rest remains, and our bedroom has not been hoovered for two months! I kid you not, I just keep the blinds down
Whoknows very sweet your children's helpful rota for when you go into hospital, sorry about boiler, at least it broke before winter set in, and plumbers get frantic
Toffee I am very sorry you had pneumonia, but you sound much better now; also sorry dog went, and she is sweet too, coming back to find you all, ah, she must have had a fantastic holiday with you
waves to all, my brain is pretty well fried by Irish family politics atm, but back in London it is all a bit easier to digest, and Dh helping too...
NEED TO GET A GRIP ON NEW TERM. I WILL DO MY XMAS SHOPPING IN SEPT IF IT IS THE LAST THING I DO! Even if it is just for the outer ring of people and not the kids! (who knows what they will demand?)
Wow! You guys have all achieved so much today! 
My day has mostly consisted of getting ready for DS' 3rd birthday (tomorrow) and planning for his party at the weekend. I may be more excited about the bouncy castle than he is
DD is cutting her first tooth. She has spent every spare second screaming. I have not done much flying today! Thankfully DS is at ore-school tomorrow and DM has come to stay so I'm hoping she can hold the baby tomorrow while I do some flying so that CHAOS is eliminated before Sunday (whose stupid idea was it to have the party at home?!).
I hope the boiler is sorted soon...
Oh and I have recently purchased an Organised Mum Family Life Book so am determined to use it as my Control Journal as it appears to have all necessary features...
And if someone wouldn't mind coming to find the gnat hiding in my bedroom is be terribly grateful. I'm getting slowly bitten to death.
I'm liking the sound of ore-school but sadly he's only going to pre-school
Ooo, a trophy, how exciting
Just to clarify though, a couple of the items were things like get up and dressed, make bed etc, so not that amazing
The home routines app is for iPhone, iPod or iPad, it's basically a control journal with all your routines in and you tick them off as you go along, soooo satisfying, it really really helps me. It is not an official flylady app, but the creator based it on her routines and it has the zones etc. The one annoying thing is that it doesn't follow them exactly done of the time though, like this month it has started on zone one for 9 days whereas flylady has give straight to zone two. It's not normally out by more than a day or two though. All if the zones are accessible so you can still follow flylady anyway, it's just that sometimes the missions don't quite match up. Anyway, I would still really recommend it, it made such a difference for me
Welcome back! Sounds as if you have been very, very busy. Am still missing the dog and keep hoping she will somehow find her way back to us again.
Trazzle - I hope your DS enjoys his third birthday tomorrow.
Whispers -
at your app (and trophy ).
I don't mind spiders, but agree with Swan about daddy-long-legses. I can't abide fluttery things and hate moths too. Butterflies I can cope with, so long as they don't flutter straight at me!
With DH's help, the house is looking almost presentable now. Will have to hoover in the morning, even if it means kicking the boys into the garden for the duration - they hate the noise still. Now have some paid work for the morning too!
We had our first practice run of the new school-morning routine today. Will need a bit of tweaking, but that's why we've started early...
I've also written the morning routine down for the first time ever. If that helps, I'll have to start the evenings too. Hope the party goes well Trazzle - our DS2 is 3 on Friday - an excellent week for it. :)
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Ooo, happy birthday to all the three year olds this week (please tell me they start to calm down and this age 
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