FLYing through April: Fledglings Spring into Action

[GoingGoingGoth]

Welcome to the April Fledgling FLYers thread

... where we (loosely) follow the step-by-step Flylady housekeeping system (in our own, unique, relaxed style) with lots of and chatting along the way.

This little-and-often system is designed so that we can follow a series of steps and routines each day (which gradually become second nature) in weekly designated zones of the house; defining and minimising housework - which in theory should leave us with more time to do other, more interesting things instead!

At the same time it is intended to reduce that panicky "rabbit in headlights" feeling we get when we are overwhelmed and everything needs doing all at once.

To avoid being inundated with details, we advise not signing up to the Big Tent

We are in the process of following Flylady's steps and routines using a three-pronged approach (dependent on the stage everyone is at):

• start or repeat 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.
  

[And if you are really enthusiastic and have finished decluttering - you can go on to detailed deep cleaning in each zone.]

Flylady site is here

Don't worry if you are behind; just jump right back in and it will all come around next month again anyway!

All the links for the babysteps and missions will be posted here every day and we'll all be here to cheer each other on.

Thanks to SC, Blue & Silvery for leading us through since January and for the brilliant OP I've just cut and pasted.

[GoingGoingGoth]

LINKS FOR TUESDAY 30TH APRIL

Babystep 30 is to check the next month's calendar for birthday etc.

Today's missionis a 15 minute hot spot in the Living Room

Daily Focus for Tuesday is Planning

Flight Plan

[SilveryMoon]

Ok, I did the other bit of washing up and put another load of laundry on.
Please don't judge me for not cleaning my kitchen

[GoingGoingGoth]

Arrgh battery went flat, lost post, so briefly

SC had a poorly DD, but got some work done around the house.

WhoKnows has had a house full for a lot of the month.

Bitchy tried to organise us, like herding chickens

Castle has a LOT of weddings coming up, and still is doing May's thread

I'm going for a lie down now.

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes]

Ik'm going to spend some more time setting up the zones in the home routines app in a minute. Monday is my quietest day, so that is going to be kitchen and bathroom, Tuesday is very busy so that will be lounge I think.

Anyway, ta-da!

Morning routine
School run
Home and washing on line
Walk to pilates class and back (50 min round walk)
More washing on
Email, admin, MN etc
Lunch
One lot washing in, another onto the line
Big pile of tidying
Into town, haircut and errands
School run x 2 (DS at a club) plus drop a binbag of handmedowns to a friend
Sweep and mop kitchen and bathroom floors
Normal weekly clean of bathroom
Detailed clean of bathroom - shelves, vanity doors, mirrors, windowsill etc
Detailed clean of kitchen - wipe marks off DW and round its door seals, clean outside of bin
Dinner
DD washed up
DCs decided to bake, so baking.
DCs to bed

DD was sent to bed in disgrace, she is Miss Militant at the moment and won't do anything she is asked, just pushes back with what she is going to do (the opposite of what I want). She will be getting up early to do reading and homework. Having a few problems with her and her best friend too, they are gradually spending more and more time together and it is getting too much IMO, DS is feeling sidelined and I think the friendship is too exclusive. Tricky to back out a bit without causing offence though.

DS has just gone to bed. He's an Aston Villa supporter and it has been a long hard season but he is very happy tonight as they won 6-1.

[BlueEyeshadow]

Quick waves to all. Work sent off ahead of the deadline, and got another big project in for Thurs!

Up far too late because I wanted to finish a blog post before I drowned in work again. No flying today, but still productive and DS1 had a friend round which was nice.

Must go to bed.

[CHBitchy]

Was just being grumpy and refusing to admit that it might actually be May already whoknows

Early night stuffed up due to weird broken central heating that decided randomly to cook everyone. Early start to tomo so it is a bit of a pita.

[Castlelough]

Ooh it is very late.....am I always the last to post? Will have to improve on that for May ....

A great day today - had tons of energy after my early morning exercise which involved more walking than running, in the end.

Ta Da:
*Work
*Coached the school camogie team after school.
*Grocery emergency dash
*Unplanned nap (for almost three hrs )
*Supper, dishwashing, kitchen rescued, laundry re-booted and away [happy], clothes laid out for tomorrow [happy], an hour of gardening [happy], popped in to see dMil and dSil....and finally bed!

Have taken a day off work tomorrow; am going to go to my Aunt's Month's Mind mass, which is at the very odd time of 11:00 on a Tuesday morning. Hoping to squeeze in my morning exercise first and then make the 2.5 hr drive there. Will be nice to catch up with my cousins and some family members [happy].
And then I will be back to take up the reins from Goth .
for this month Goth.

[Castlelough]

What is wrong with my [happy] faces................ - there, that's better.

[DorisShutt]

Quick list as it's a manic day today.

Can I count up and dressed as a success? It may be my only success today!

So,

• WAH stuff out of the way.
  
• Finish tidying house for guests coming later. Actually, it needs a full scale tidy, but I'l going to have to resort to the time honoured method of shoving it all in my bedroom.
  
• Mop kitchen floor - DH dropped coffee over it.
  
• Out to drop DS at a friends while I pop to have a scan.
  
• Toddler gymnastics for DS (and me)
  
• Friend round after gymnastics
  

Then die in the corner.

Blue do you have a blog? I'm always looking for new blogs to follow...

[Engelsemama]

Bank holiday here (getting a new king today!) so short list...

To do
Washing-up
Washing
Gardening (lots of things to do)
Watch coronation while quaffing some sparkling wine and stuffing face.

[CHBitchy]

ta da
Up and out
1 load washing
move mountain of towels upstairs
take bed apart and put stuff way in storage inside it
change bedding
internet stuff
put ds' spare duvet away
sort through old training stuff.
find important contact info
double check all timings for this week
physio exercises

Lacking motivation today. Planning day so I could say I am doing that and not bother but really I need to pretend it is anti procrastination day as there is a whole heap of important stuff that needs doing.

More coffee is the answer, right?

[GoingGoingGoth]

Afternoon all,

My reliable boring phone has been showing the 'white screen of doom' with increasing regularity, so I've given in and got a smart phone,mainly because I'll then have a hot spot for my iPad, I'm not a complete Luddite.

Ta-dah
Beds
Dd to school
Quick trip to shops for phone & fresh veg
played on new phone
Hung out 2 loads laundry
Another load laundry on
Got cat out of house, he complained but had a lot of fun running up the trees.
Litter tray
Rubbish & recycling out
Washing up
Washed recycling box
Refilled bird feeders

To do
Laundry in
Ironing
Dry laundry away
Parcel up squares for Woolly Hugs
15 min tidy lounge
Vacuum (everywhere)
Post Office
Collect DD from school,
via shops - need thin green beans (love Sainsbury's frozen) and a new water bottle for DD for school, as old has been used as a football (there were words said this morning)
Possible trip to library
Prepare dinner
Supervise homework
Wash & SS

That'll do for now

[CHBitchy]

ta da
Up and out
3rd load washing
move mountain of towels upstairs
take bed apart and put stuff way in storage inside it
change bedding
internet stuff
put ds' spare duvet away
sort through old training stuff.
find important contact info
double check all timings for this week
physio exercises
folding
ironing
15mins in dining room
15mins in lounge
make up ds' kit for tonight.
15mins in my room
a minor clothes cull.
take ds' clothes up into his room
more folding
15mins more in the lounge
take my clothes upstairs
15mins more in my room
try and figure out what vaccinations and when ds had.
update medical info sheet for ds (again)
fill in paperwork for school trip

Right next job find a saw and make something smaller. don't ask

[CHBitchy]

ta da
Up and out
3rd load washing
move mountain of towels upstairs
take bed apart and put stuff way in storage inside it
change bedding
internet stuff
put ds' spare duvet away
sort through old training stuff.
find important contact info
double check all timings for this week
physio exercises
folding
ironing
15mins in dining room
15mins in lounge
make up ds' kit for tonight.
15mins in my room
a minor clothes cull.
take ds' clothes up into his room
more folding
15mins more in the lounge
take my clothes upstairs
15mins more in my room
try and figure out what vaccinations and when ds had.
update medical info sheet for ds (again)
fill in paperwork for school trip
another load of washing
more folding
30mins more in lounge
30mins more in my room
Hoover through downstairs
Drink far too much coffee
transfer paperwork from broken file box into new file box
gather stuff together for loft
take spare clean bedding up stairs
empty lounge bin
blow the dust and decide proper dusting actually needed in lounge.
return upstairs stuff from lounge

[LPlateFlyer]

Hi all.

Silvery - I think they go through those phases every now and then. I know mine, who are 3 and 6, are at that stage at the moment and it is driving me around the bend at times!

Washing machine still out of action - and have 2 lots of bedding plus 1 duvet to wash , so DH has volunteered to do a Laundromat run tonight. Hopefully he's home in time to do it.

Will have to hand wash a few things to keep on top of it though - which is going to be a real PITA.

Spent a few hours blitzing the kitchen this morning which is looking a LOT better. Have decluttered the plastics box as I could never find sandwich containers and drink bottles etc when I needed them. I find I have to do this every few months as it really gets out of control.

A busy week at work for the rest of the week, not quite sure how I'm going to cope with that!

Roll on May......

[CHBitchy]

Sorry queen of the lists today.

ta da
Up and out
3rd load washing
move mountain of towels upstairs
take bed apart and put stuff way in storage inside it
change bedding
internet stuff
put ds' spare duvet away
sort through old training stuff.
find important contact info
double check all timings for this week
physio exercises
folding
ironing
15mins in dining room
15mins in lounge
make up ds' kit for tonight.
15mins in my room
a minor clothes cull.
take ds' clothes up into his room
more folding
15mins more in the lounge
take my clothes upstairs
15mins more in my room
try and figure out what vaccinations and when ds had.
update medical info sheet for ds (again)
fill in paperwork for school trip
another load of washing
more folding
30mins more in lounge
30mins more in my room
Hoover through downstairs
Drink far too much coffee
transfer paperwork from broken file box into new file box
gather stuff together for loft
take spare clean bedding up stairs
empty lounge bin
blow the dust and decide proper dusting actually needed in lounge.
return upstairs stuff from lounge
more washing
more folding
more ironing
put stuff into loft
30mins decluttering office
find craft boxes ready for putting away in office
find lawn mower (being borrowed)
find saw and cut item needing cutting
training x 2
play where the fuck is that phone number from

Got just enough time to wash the car whilst tea is cooking. might go get on with that....

[GoingGoingGoth]

Ta-dah
Beds
Dd to school
Quick trip to shops for phone & fresh veg
played on new phone
Hung out 2 loads laundry
Another load laundry on
Got cat out of house, he complained but had a lot of fun running up the trees.
Litter tray
Rubbish & recycling out
Washing up
Washed recycling box
Refilled bird feeders
Laundry in -cat outside again
Dry laundry away -cat let himself back in
Parcel up squares for Woolly Hugs
Post Office
Collect DD from school,
via shops got green beans and a new school water bottle for DD
Wash up
Supervise homework-in process (so far so good)
Prepare dinner- ditto

To do
Wash up & SS
Paperwork
Ironing

[LPlateFlyer]

Yay!!! My washing machine is working!!!!

Finally got hold of the repair man and the part came in today so he fixed it this afternoon. What a relief!!!!!

Right, I know what my next job is.....

[GoingGoingGoth]

Who-hoo! Brilliant news LPlate

[SilveryMoon]

Evening all.
I did some detail cleaning in the living room today. Before work I pulled all the cd's out (4 carrier bags worth) from the shelf down the side of the sofa. When I got back I scrubbed the shelf, dusted off all the cases and put all cd's back in their right cases. Took forever
Now just need to complete my evening routine, so need a list
ta da
up and made beds
showered and dressed
swished and swiped
fed cats
got breakfast and cleared away
rubbish out
dropped kids off
went to work
tesco run (for )
collected boys
home
warmed up dinner for them (spag bol from yesterday)
detail
fed cats
made tomorrows lunch
sorted dry washing
sorted through school bags
put out clothes

to do
me and dp to have dinner
catch up on thread
clean kitchen
ironing
defrost chicken for tomorrows dinner
non iron clothes away
empty washing machine and hang to dry

What am I forgetting?

[Castlelough]

Ta Da:
*morning run
*attended mass for my aunt (involving a 5-hr round trip, driving) and copious cups of tea afterwards and chats with the relatives.
*dinner
*posted first babystep on the May thread

To Do:
some actual* flying....
*some gardening
*visit dMil
*practise piano
*lay out clothes for tomorrow

Engels I was thinking of you earlier when I heard about the new king in the Netherlands! Hope you are having a lovely day!
Waves to everyone else, especially Goth - and for the fantastic job you have done.

[SilveryMoon]

castle you don't wanna be leaving those laying around............they'll be gone in a flash thanks

[SilveryMoon]

My lists are nothing comapred to bitchy's. I look at hers and think "fuck that, I'll have to put reading it on my to-do list"

[Louise85]

Big waves - been reading up & u all seem to be doing great!! I've been doing some very slow flying...house is up for rent again, so had to keep it decent for viewings...looking forward to moving so can do some major decluttering again

See you all sometime in May thread after my lovely weekend away visiting old friends

[CHBitchy]