Evening lovely fledglings. Hope you have all had a reasonably productive day NOT procrastinating. Mine was spent tackling 8 hr fall out from office shenanigens yesterday + school run + playdate run + ballet run, so yet again, no Flying done (apart from basic routines and usual load of laundry that is).
And diet went out the window when they ordered in a takeaway for lunch. (Am finding it hard in January too Engels (Think there was a good reason why monks used to fast during Lent when the days are getting longer and spring is at least within sniffing distance! Much harder at this time of year.) Anyway, that's yet another excuse from me! Hopeless!!
At least I have all of tomorrow to tackle the house. Sorry - not setting a very good Flying (or Body Clutter) example atm am I? Hope to get a grip soon however ...
[Sad] news too as my cousin died today (had been suffering from cancer a long time) - really feel for his immediate family.
How did you all get on?
Bitchy Congrats on completion of indestructible pe bag and humungous list. I made one for dd a year or so ago and now the other girls in her class have asked them to make one for each of them too!! Not sure what to do tbh!!
Sounds like you deserved that wine Cuddledup after ploughing through that list. Good luck going back to the coal face tomorrow! You've been through a lot recently so take it steady x
Feetheart Mercury Goth Doublemum Wewereherefirst and Lilleth you have all done really well with your lists today too! (You are all putting me to shame!!) Really good going!
Lilleth that is the room rescue theory I am applying to our boudoir atm! Hopefully at the end of Jan, I will be able to walk across the floor in a straight line!! Flylady advises doing Fling Boogies and room rescues in one zone or room at a time so that your efforts are not dissipated all over the house and so that you make sustainable, visible, progress.
doublemum and Silvery and Toffee I think it is a struggle to fit it all in and to be blunt, although it's probably bordering on sacrilege to say it on this thread, I don't think Flying, or any other housework system for that matter, offers a magic solution (although system does definitely help with efficiency and one's attitude to chores!).
In the end I think it all comes down to how much energy and determination one has at the end of the day (which is v. bad news for me I can tell you 
!) Housework never ends and it can be hard work and pretty tedious to boot and that's the truth ...so don't be too hard on yourselves 
!!
In my book, as long as your kitchen and bathroom are clean, there's good food on the tableand there are clean clothes to wear in the morning and you can find them, then you are doing well!!
The Flylady theory is that, the longer you follow the steps and routines, the more your house will become decluttered and clean, and the less time it will all take. It's bound to be harder at the beginning.
And I think adapting the system to suit yourselves is important too (ie before I started art study, I deliberately planned NOT to Fly on Tues and to devote it to creative stuff instead -which nearly worked!!) But the downside of that is one has to be realistic and accept if you add one thing in, another thing has to go (it took me ages to accept that!!)
But the key, as ever, is short sharp bursts, do the minimum necessary, and don't try and do anything perfectly, just "good enough"!!
Silvery sympathies with the driving - dh and I always have difficulties when share driving or cooking (he keeps pressing the imaginary brake peddle when I am at the wheel which doesn't half hack me off!!)
toffee you sound bored/restless atm. Could you book yourself in for a course/or do something just for yourself - something creative or something to feed the brain ....even if just one hour a week??????? What's good for mother and all that ...
Doublemum your home made dishes sound delicious
[Plumps up Engel's pillows and adds extra comforter to foot of bed]
Bum about the computer Blue Hope it can be salvaged.
Swan a heroic effort from you today and bet house doesn't look worse. One thing I've really learnt from this system is that even 5 mins really helps and you've done loads more than that today (ie 3 bags of rubbish!). Top marks for ploughing on through!! And hope your fainting ds feels ok - we are going through that with dd atm and one is permanently on tenterhooks.
Snowgirl that's what my cleaner does toO ... the home bleugh on the ground floor (but on a Friday) plus deep cleans the bathroom. At least then I know the basics are done (well, when I don't cancel her because the house is too cluttered to clean that is !!)
Hope midwife appt went well MrsPennyapple and that you are feeling OK
Waves back to Goth of Glasgow! Could do with some sunshine here ...
Whatkatydid Whoknows and Bitchy sorry for troubling you over babysteps doc and thanks very much for your efforts to find it. Bitchy was right - it has indeed disappeared in website reorganisation - unless I imagined it all along (it wasn't an app was it????). Have found them listed together here though on site map. Thanks again though!
Posting this before I lose it ... back in a mo with part II ..and links