FLYlady followers flock together! Join the May fledglings – our nests we will feather!

[Castlelough]

Welcome to the May 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 and Goth for leading us through since January and for the brilliant OP I've just cut and pasted.

Morning all. Back from the UK last night so today is mostly unpacking and making sure I?m ready for work tomorrow. Haven?t had time to catch up on thread properly so will try to bbl with some personals. Have to get house shipshape, take DS for a hv appt and get some fresh food in (the fridge and fruit bowl are bare!). DH has a course so won?t be back till 8, which means I have the ?luxury? of the house (and DS) completely to myself to day

Ta da
First lot of washing on
Changed DS bed
Both up, dressed and fed
Started unpacking

To do
Finish unpacking and putting everything in its place
More washing
HV appt for DS
Pick up essentials (bread, milk, fruit)
Shred
While DS is sleeping either catchup on MN gardening or marking
Hotspots
What?s for dinner?
Water plants
Start reading the last Game of Thrones book

Reporting for duty, after AWOL for a few days.

Not been getting in from work until 10pm, but have managed a bit of Flying in the mornings, so flat not as bad as it could be.

It has just started HAILING here!

Anyway, had Ikea delivery arrive this morning, so in the middle of a flat pack frenzy Storage for DD, chest of drawers for me, and shelving for the kitchen.

Done
Beds
Windows
Laundry on
Dd to school
Build DDs storage

To do
Give DD's room a really good vacuum
Try to create order in there.
Build chest of drawers
Sort clothes
Weekly bleugh
Ironing
Dry laundry away
Collect DD
Library
Dinner
Wash up & SS

Big waves to everyone, will catch up on thread later.

Morning! In survival mode here. After loads of short school holidays, C is off school with unfortunately timed sore throat/fever/lethargy (thought she was putting it on to avoid homework debacle but turns out she is really ill) and I have same thing. Really worried about the work she will be missing. DH in Middle East. Longing to get back to "normal" routine as mid-May approaches as summer holidays start end of June here, so not much time left to sort house. Oh well....

A warm welcome back to Engels and Feetheart

I was wondering how the HOly Communion event went Castle - well done!

Glad your sil is feeling a bit stronger Narky

Better drag myself down to the laundry and start sorting the smalls. Have a good week everyone!

Afternoon! Better late than never!!!
Am at work for a rest after quite a bumpy weekend - lots of shouty argumentative kids (and me) At least here, I don't have to keep saying 'STOP IT' in ever increasing volume increments!

It also occurred to me on my journey in, that there was only one moment over the weekend where everything WAS actually in order, washing away, appropriate storage available for toys etc, quite a clean house, ya da ya da ya da! Then, once the dry washing was brought in off the line to be sorted, the balance shifted, and boom!

Have the dentist later, so at least I have a comfy lie-down to look forward to!
Have a productive day x

Hi ladies

Can I join pretty please! Need something to motivate me keeping up with flylady and the website but this way looks to be simpler to follow than a hundred emails a day!! I have a 1 year old and 3 year old and work nightshift 3 nights a week and only time I get peace is when my 3 year old is at nursery like now and 1 year old having afternoon nap. I always say I am going to catch up at night when they are in their beds but always exhausted and cant move from couch.

So far today I have

• shined sink
• put clothes away from tons of washing that miltobe and own mum did over weekend while oh was on a stag and me at work - bonus
• decluttered bathroom and ensuite

(i was out all morning at a babyclass and dropping something off in car to oh work)

made lunch

still to do
home blessing mainly living room as have a wedding dj coming this evening to speak to us as he also does master of ceremonies so need to look half decent.
pick 3 yo up
mop downstairs bathroom and clean
make spag carbonara

Watch Game of Thrones and Drink wine :)

only got 20 mins til pick up so better have quick blessing!!!!

A warm welcome to Kayz12! Sounds like you have a lot on your plate combining night shifts and young 'uns - no wonder you are tired - looks like you have made a v. good start though!

Sorry - forgot to wave to jdub

Congrats on your orderly house (even if it was invaded by laundry later!) - good luck at the dentist!

Bitchy Hope you?re day?s been ok and that RL really will calm down.
Good to see you feet sounds mental!
Hope you and dd are ok sc
Kayz12 welcome This way is much simpler! As useful as the FLYlady site is, it can be a bit confusing and the e-mails are definitely too much!

Bloody horrid day at work. I really will blow my top with that prick I?m working with this year. They better not put me with him next year, I really will have something to say about that. Only about 9 weeks left, hoping to be able to keep my mouth shut.
Ds1 has nits, so have treated him and ds2, about to treat myself too.

Ta Da
Up and made beds
Got breakfast
Swished and swiped
Showered and dressed
Cleared breakfast
Laundry
Rubbish out
Went to work
Home and changed
Cooked dinner and filled sink
Checked school bags
Made tomorrows lunch
Sorted dry washing
Non-iron away
Defrosted for tomorrows dinner
More laundry
Fed cats
Detail in boys bedroom
Ds1 10mins special time 1:1 with me (we are having behaviour stuff again)
Cleaned kitchen
De-loused and showered boys
Laid out tomorrow?s clothes
Checked diary

To Do
Shine sink
bed

Thank you for the warm welcome! Ive namechanged as Ive been meaning to for ages and just figured it out!

god reading those lists is going to give me kick up the ass! managed to do quick blessing after dinner and bath and bed kids with dps help for dj coming. He has just left now

Now just feet up waiting on my wine then can watch game of thrones.

Still to do
Put dishwasher on !

Will try and introduce some more to my nightly routine tomorrow

Like the new name fire
wait til you see bitchy's lists

All officially de-loused.
The River Wine is dry

Flapping by in a hurry. Promise to do a proper round-up tomorrow. xx Castle

LINKS FOR TUESDAY 14th MAY
This week we are in Zone 3 Zone 3 ? The Bathroom and One Extra Room We are decluttering, or detailed cleaning, in this zone for 15 minutes a day.

Babystep 14 is to learn how to use a calendar ?

The Daily Focus for Tuesday is Plan and Play.

Today?s Misson is to do a quick inventory in the bathroom and update your shopping list with same. In your Extra Room do a 27 fling boogie of things that need to be rehomed elsewhere in the house.

The Flight plan for our daily routines, should update automatically.

Finally, the habit for the month of May is to get Moving!

Hello everyone
Quick post from me as off to bed -

looked after the 'chickenpox two' all day so ltd flying achieved, just got back from much needed band practice, lovely to get out of the house!

Loving this thread, very supportive so thank you

See you in the morning

Clearly not Silvery. Only just now about to head to bed. Another stupid early start tomo.

No personals today as im on my phone, but hi to new people and wing flaps to old!

Fidnt get back on yesterday as my day pretty much sucked - apart from the arrival of DF.

Turns out DS, in playing in DH's car while we unpacked the shopping on Sunday, left the headlights on. Cue flat battery yesterday with the ensuing crap due to DS having to get to nursery and me having to et to work. Still, DH managed to source a new battery and fitted it last night. Hopefully it will work, if not, he'll take my car as we're not really needing it today. Oh, and then I had a 4 hour budget meeting at work yesterday Definitely not the most fun ever!

DF is only here today, so flying will be on hold apart from the usual tidying up after meals etc.

Hope you all have good days!

Morning all
Just jumping back nn before I lose motivation!
Absolutely knackered - too much work and no sleep. House is slipping but work is slipping further so I'm going to keep the list small and (hopefully) manageable today!

To do
Put away washing
Declutter bathroom
Declutter ensuite
Mop kitchen floor

Urgh it all fell apart last night. Didn't end up hitting bed until nearly 2am in the end. Any day where you are running late before 6am is a bad day!!!

Morning all - welcome to new people. It does work, honest. I might have been here since nearly the beginning and not yet have a show home but I know what I have to do to keep it 'reasonable' and where to start when it all goes belly-up and the chat on here keeps me sane :)

Busy week again this week as we I try to pack for camping holiday on Saturday. Unfortunately DS and I have to come back Mon-Fri as we found out last Friday afternoon during a polite 'we aren't going to be here the week before half-term' chat with his teacher that he has his Yr2 SATS that week. It's a complete bummer and although I hate the whole testing regime with a passion the Head is very focused on raising standards at school and has done a great job so far. However I know she won't have any flexibility re DS and his SATS and us taking him out anyway would ruin any relationship with her (and we have over 4 years to go here) so against my better judgment DS and I will be here :( We will head back Friday lunchtime and have until Bank Holiday Monday but it really won't be the same. Am now planning lots of nice things for DS and I to do during the week to make us feel better.

So today:

• All up and out
• Morning routine
• Shopping for surrogate granny up the road
• WORK
• Contact insurance people re event and see what's going on
• Contact Building Regs people to see if they got the details I sent
• Re-plan dinner as DD has friend over
• Reading at school
• DS and DH to Beavers
• Ironing

That's more than enough and even includes some Flying. Let's see how I get on though :)

Have a good day everyone.

Morning! Definitly going to make an effort to check in here every day and writing my own wee list on here helps!

To do

• Kids washed and dress
• put wash on and dryer on
• make beds (dp in bed when we got up) need to get in habit before going downstairs though
• put clothes away
• 15 mins cleaning in bathroom
• declutter downstairs toilet of shoes
• hoover upstairs
• write list of needs for bathroom products
• plan dinner

ds 3 first sports day today so will be going to that all afternoon and dp has half day from work to come with us.

DD is back at nursery after the chicken pox scare.. . DS took it upon himself to start re-toilet training yesterday evening. It's great and I'm delighted but he still can't walk so manoeuvring pull ups off a 17kg child who won't bear weight on his legs is no mean feat!

DM is entertaining him today and so my focus is tidying the playroom (still after the horror of last week's play date!!!). Phew. Might try to throw out old smellies in the bathroom too.

Oh and laundry reboot

Morning all, hope today will go better, didn't have broadband from yesterday lunch as Primus mucking us about. DON'T EVER sign up to them. We're going to go to OFTEL (?) and Trading Dtandards about them.

So, got a lot of yesterday's list done plusnow up to date(ish) on paperwork. BDD's bedroom actually looks tidy with new storage set up, it won't last.

Done
Beds
Dd to school
Ironing
Dry laundry away
Laundry on clothes horses- too showery to hang out
Rang Primus (then ranted for 20 minutes)

To do
Complete weekly bleugh
More laundry
Work on website
Post Office & some shopping
Collect DD
Dinner
Wash up & SS

Hello everyone. Nowt much to report really (except endless laundry) but just wanted to pop in to say "hullo" ...a really dull day ...raining and quite cold ... confined to barracks because dd still feverish/lethargic. Even the rabbits can't be bothered to go out!

Well done to Joe Trazzles for re-embarking on potty training voluntarily!! Wishing you good luck (and more dettol spray) for play room crisis clean ... !

Sorry about broadband hassles Goth what a pain

Hope rain holds off for your sports day FireandBlood

Bummer about the SATS Feetheart and having to head back

[large espresso for Bitchy]

Sorry to hear you are so under pressure at work Pushme

Hope you enjoy your day with your DF Doris

Glad you could get our for a bit Newbie

Waves to Silvery Castle Jdub Ellie Swan Toffee Narky Just Blue Engels Whoknows Lplate MrsBodger FoundachopinL PA Honu ¨Craftsonsea and anyone I've missed!

Right there with you on the running late before 6am bitchy. Had to stop on the way to work for a double espresso! My team are all equally grey as well.

Not much to announce ta da wise but have managed routines, including catching up on the bits I missed last night all of them

Going to throw away the empties in the bathroom on the way to bed and try to get a reasonably early night. Got an ecological impact assessment for a wind scheme to write first though so I'd better crack on

Tired wave to all

LINKS FOR WEDNESDAY 15th MAY

This week we are in Zone 3 Zone 3 The Bathroom and One Extra Room We are decluttering, or detailed cleaning, in this zone for 15 minutes a day.

Babystep 15 is to add making your bed to your morning routine!

The Daily Focus for Wednesday is Anti-Procrastination.

Today?s Misson is to wash the bath mats/shower curtains/accessories in the bathroom. In your Extra Room do another 27 fling boogie of things that can be given away.

The Flight plan for our daily routines, should update automatically.

Finally, the habit for the month of May is to get Moving!

Bitchy I hope your day has gone a little better today.
Dorris enjoy DF?s visit .
Hello Feetheart! Think how lovely the extension will be when it is finished! Sorry about the camping trip upset?
Engels Hope you?ve settled back in from your trip home. It can be exhausting getting to grips with the washing, unpacking, grocery shopping and back to work again on top of all that? have a ((hug!))
Goth I hope all your lovely Ikea purchases are now assembled and in service!
SC I hope you are feeling a bit better, and DD too. More [[hugs)) for you!
JDub I had to laugh when I read your post about looking forward to getting a lie down in the dentist?s chair!!! Hopefully he didn?t keep you in it too long!
Silvery I hope work went better for you today.
Welcome to Fireandblood - you seem to be settling in well and getting the hang of things here! Hope you enjoyed sports day!
Newbie Hope the chicken pox abates very soon for your little dcs and your sanity!
Pushme Hope you got some rest today x
Trazzles Isn?t your little DS so good! Hope the playroom got sorted today, and that you got a chance to put up your feet too!!
Waves to WhoKnows , Blue , Toffee , Swan , LPlate , Elliepac , PositiveAttitude , Just , Honu , Narky, MrsBodger , Foundachopinlizt and anyone else I may have missed!