Is June the new January? - the Fledgling Flyers are doing their flaming best

[pushmepullyou]

Welcome old and new fledglings to the June Fledgling FLYers thread!

Thank you very much to castlelough for leading us expertly through May - I shall try not to be too haphazard with June, although I make no promises

If you're overwhelmed by clutter and general household grub then join us as we (loosely) follow the step-by-step Flylady housekeeping system or languish in the naughty corner hoping to do better tomorrow

As usual, we will be following the Flylady three-pronged approach:

1. Baby-steps (a daily step to establish routines)
2. Then baby-steps + 15 mins daily decluttering
3. (And once decluttered) babysteps + daily missions and maybe even detailed cleaning in the weekly zones

For more information have a look here, although to avoid a cluttered inbox, we advise not signing up to the Flylady emails. The basic principle is little and often and don't worry about perfection (no chance of that 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 and chat our way through the month.

Morning all. Another beautiful day here and have made the most of it and been out and done C25k wk 7 run 1.

Did manage some flying yesterday with the help of DH and this morning am going to attempt to get morning routine back on track.

Yay for all those appointments.

Boo to kidney infections, broken limbs and tennis/MN elbows and clingy DD's.

Better get cracking. Quieter day post work today so hopefully evening routine will work it's way back into contention.

Have a good day everyone!

Morning ellie

Beautiful day but I went to sleep far too late and am knackered.

To do
Work (inc. 2 deadlines and a meeting)
Exercise
Routines
Mission
Laundry
Clear out fridge (if I get to it before the online shop arrives)
Polish living room mirror
Swish and swipe ensuite

Morning all! Loving all the talk of herbs and plants on here! [Surveys rabbit-wrecked garden] Twisted hazel one of my favourites too Bitchy (and am v. of your home grown rhubarb)

Hope everyone OK and that those who are ill are starting to feeling much better!

Thanks for links and round-up Pushme Glad the dentist wasn't too rough with you!

How embarrassing but yes it is entirely possible that the boudoir has been in a total mess for x years since the beginning of this thread!! (Sadly not filled with priceless antiques and jewellery (I wish!!)- but all of our clothes and loads of homeless junk stored in various second hand brocante style wrecks of wobbly chests bits of 'brown' furniture, in cheap chests of drawers from Ikea, in piles on chairs and stacked in laundry baskets (waiting to be given away) and on the floor. In my defence, the room in which dh and I actually sleep (unless he is snoring) is, by default, very tidy because it contains only a bed! But it's nowhere near a bathroom, hence current inconvenient/messy/jumble sale vibe!

Didn't make significant in-roads yesterday either [sigh]

Congrats on a mahoosively productive day yesterday Mercury

Enjoy your ma's visit Kit

Trazzles hospital schedule sounds gruelling hope gp can give you some answers with regard to your dd's ankle

Toffee great news about appt for ds1 coming through earlier than expected

Good luck with all the medical appts Whoknows

Big wing flaps to everyone else!!

[Warning ...yet another big whinge-fest coming up!!....]

Feeling a bit miffed on two fronts this morning:

(a) because dh has only just felt it necessary to inform me that he is going to be away this weekend at a conference in Blighty and, I found this out from my sister with whom he is going to be staying because she happens to live near the University where the conference is being held [anger] This has been arranged for weeks and neither of them thought to mention it to me (To be fair to my dsis, she obviously assumed dh would have told me!) Can you believe it???!! Even worse, we can't go with him now because dd is committed to attending a party and a church event here both of which we're unable to pull out of. Dh just showed me his conference schedule (which admittedly is stuffed full) and said it didn't occur to him that I would want to come , no thought of the fact that I would have enjoyed seeing my dsis! Grrrra!!!!§§§"""**hhhhh!!!!

And (b) dd has started brewing a cold/temp overnight and so we're keeping her home for the morning and seeing how she is and I just know I'm going to get a cat's bum reaction from the school when I ring them in two mins, with no mention of the fact that the dc were required to rehearse for school play all hours last week, do huge amounts of hwk on top, never got to bed before 9.30pm and was required to be at school for over 8 hours on Sat ...and then they wonder why dc succumb to colds ....

Ahhh, rant over, that feels better!!! Going to take my angst out on the boudoir as I won't be going out now dd is at home ...

Anger is always a good motivator I find!!

Have a good day everyone!!

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V. impressed by early morning run Ellie

[Better than early morning ranting ]

[Oh the shame, I have just logged 300 calories on MFP owing to last night's Haribo gummy bear intake] Thank heavens today is a fast day ...

Quite understandable that you feel miffed in the circs, though, SC.

Just popping in quickly while I can. They are doing some electrical work in our village today and turning our electricity off all day. So today is a list of going out.

Today's list
Go to garden centre to spend vouchers on BBQ and outdoor furniture
Go to town for some food
Go to supermarket for top up shop
Shine sink
Go running

Hope everyone had a good day, will catch up later

My DH would do something like that, SC, and not mean any harm in it. He once booked a trip to Chile and forgot to tell me about it until I mentioned we'd been invited to dinner that weekend and he said, "Oh, I can't come. I'll be in Chile."

It is very annoying though and you have my sympathies!

Also, sorry your DD is ill and school are being so demanding.

I have just joined MFP and it is a whole new world to me. As someone who used to be able to eat anything without putting on weight, it's been a shock to realise I'm not that person anymore and have to become calorie-conscious. How do you do a fast day, SC? Do you literally eat nothing or are you allowed fruit or soup?

Lilleth - electricity off all day . Good idea to make it an errand day.

pushme - Sorry you went to bed too late. I do that and then am so annoyed with myself the next day when I feel crap.

ellie - am very, very impressed by your early-morning run. Very. My exercise today will consist of walking to the library .

Ta da :

Up and dressed in good time
Before-school routine done on time
DS2 at school early
Washing on
Swished and swiped in bathroom
B/fast
Kitten cuddles

To do :

Hang washing out
Walk to library to photocopy forms and return books
Get passport-sized photo of DS1
Finish DS1's school application
Home ed
Ironing
Room rescue - sitting room
Lunch
Collect DS2
Excursion to pottery cafe with DS2
What's for dinner? Sausage and pasta, I think
Pilates class
Bedtime routines
Plan home ed for rest of the week

Morning all-another golden day - marvellous!

done
up,dressed,fed and out - all with correct stuff for the day!
packed lunch done
clothes away

to do
make tea
meal plan
washing off line and away
dust
bag up charity shop stuff (be ruthless)

Have a lovely day and enjoy the sunshine if you have it xx

Bleurgh.

Just getting over a D&V bug that struck yesterday. Thankfully it seems to be a 24 hour bug and I don't feel as bad now as I did. Managed to get DS's nursery to take him today so I can recuperate and DH didn't have to take time off work.

Anyway, bug 1 - flying 0

Hello all, made it at last.
BIG thank you to castlelough for May and for pushme for taking on June.

A day out on Friday and decent weather since have made life more bearable re builders. Its not even as if it's a big extension - it's a 3mx3m 'fill-in' bit at the front that will give us a downstairs shower and toilet and a larger hallway but the mud.......oh my..........! Thank you for the sympathy though.

I haven't caught up yet - 7 pages in less than 4 days so hope I haven't missed much.
Have 25mins to hang out 2nd load of washing and eat before heading to school to read and do second-hand uniform sale.
Best get moving and catch up later.

Enjoy the sunshine if you have it.

Back from the fracture clinic. We've got to go again next week for another x-ray and a decision as to whether it needs to be pinned, in which case DS will be admitted there and then. Feeling a bit down about it all TBH. This is all new territory to me, having never broken a bone in my life.

Hi Feet - good to see you.

Lilleth - boo to no electricity.
Doris - hope you feel better soon.
SC - grr at lack of infprmation from DH. That sort of thing happens here too, although not on quite the same scale.
Toffee - I'm on MFP too, although haven't logged for a couple of weeks. I tried the fasting for a couple of weeks and lost 4lb, but found it incredibly hard, I could get through the day on no food (if I didn't forget and have breakfast) but once I started in the evening found it almost impossible to stop at 500 calories.

well some good decluttering happened last night. DP is one of those people who instead of doing a quick and easy job (hide clothes in cupboards so mum can sleep in spare bed) decides to sort out the wardrobe entirely. So that is one excellent lot of decluttering done and I got two carrier bags out of the kitchen this morning. CBA with washing the cupboard doors though - reckon I've done enough for one day as I have also done walking, done my morning routine and taught a new mum how to use a sling. Going to watch Derren Brown tonight so that is my fun element planned!

Sorry you are feeling down about the fracture, WhoKnows. I hope the op won't be necessary. DS1 has had a broken finger and a broken toe (both caused by friends ), but never anything as serious as a broken arm, so I haven't had to go through that particular saga .

Welcome back, Feet. Sorry you still have the builders in, but at you having a second loo (we have to fight over our one in the morning).

Jdub - well done on the decluttering to the charity shop. You have reminded me that I have some old clothes to go too.

Haven't managed much of my list this morning, but have had a nice walk in the sunshine with DH, so I don't care really. Bought lots of low-calorie meals in Waitrose .

Just filling in the application form before I go off to collect DS2 from his first day back at school. He will say it was 'terrible', as usual.

Kat - X-post. at you seeing Derren Brown. Please report back!

Thanks for the cuppa Blue!

Oh dear, sorry to hear your ds's break is more complicated than expected Whoknows, that must be stressful for him and you, partic not knowing whether to plan for op or not.

Feetheart sorry, managed to miss the fact that you had the builders in plus attendant mud-fest, poor you ...hang in there "Ca vaut la peine" as they say over here.

Oh no Doris sorry to hear you have been ill, good to hear you are feeling a bit better but take it steady

Jdub you put me to shame, you are always so cheerful! It's lovely and sunny here too!! Getting loads of washing dry!

Toffee I'm really not the one to advise (like you, used to be thin as a rake and able to eat anything, now very wobbly/porky, and useless at dieting consistently) but have started the 5:2 here but am only on second proper day of fasting. I'm allowed 500 calories on fast days (Tues & Thurs in my case) So usually have ordinary breakfast, cup-a-soup type thing for lunch and salad leaves for dinner and try and walk loads. Can eat what you want (within reason) the rest of the week. So far have acute acid indigestion for my sins!!

Thanks for sympathetic words re: dh everyone. I know it just boils down to men = hopeless communicators but boy is it infuriating. It's the same with dd's teachers (she has had two male form teachers for the first time ever this year). The teaching is just as good (well in one instance, perhaps not, but that's a separate issue) but the communication between class and home is utterly useless/virtually non-existent - one of them never even looks at the homework agenda but it is regarded as bordering on sacrilegous if we, the parents, don't sign it every night. Such a contrast with the female teachers who seem to be much more conscientious. (I know this is a sweeping generalisation - I am sure there are v. conscientious male teachers out there - this has just been my personal experience this year.)

Btw - just a little non-Flying conundrum for you all. Happened to speak at length to another parent at school fete on Sat, who is moving their child to a different school this Sept. She cited too much homework, too much pressure, course-work moving too fast without time for proper absorption, and that "she had become enemies with her child, forcing him to study every night when he is already tired from an intense day, when that's not my job, I am his mother not a policewoman". Part of me agreed with her wholeheartedly, but part of me thought well, perhaps "policing" is part of our job too. I'd normally feel happy with a balance between the two, but she was so emphatic that it was destroying her relationship with her child, it made me question everything. What do you reckon?

DD's temp has shot up so she is still at home and I don't know why, because she is occupying herself watching TV/dozing, but I'm not getting through the Flying as I should. Better go and and salvage the rest of the day ...

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well done with the decluttering Kat!

pushme have just caught up with thread properly and now I feel guilty for posting so much and making your job harder, esp as you are so busy at work and with looking after your bil (hope he is doing OK btw). Promise to rein in the whinge-fests in future!! And thanks for round-ups so far.

Right, really must go and do something productive now ...

Toffee I've just gone and eaten a cheese roll and I'm already over my 500 for the day Hopeless

Oh no Pushme I've just gone and posted again!

And I have just gone and eaten the tuna sandwich I bought for lunch tomorrow, SC .

Evening all. I have a ta da list .

Ta da:-
Morning routine (i forgot how much nicer coming home from work is when I do it)
Dinner on
Putting away x lots
Washing x 2
Washing up
Packed lunches made
Clothes laid out for morning

Starting to feel back on track.

sc at promising not to post anymore and then doing exactly that. As far as DD is concerned (if I remember she is somewhere close to DS in age 8-9ish) it is a hard decision to make. However she does always seem to be working very hard whenever you post and it does seem to be a battleground for you. My opinion is split. I know the Belgian schooling system is very different to ours but there does seem to way more pressure on her than there is DS with his sats looming next year. He only has two pieces of homework a week (maths and literacy) and i think his school have the balance right. Yours sounds too much at a young age and I speak as a teacher! Have you tried leaving her to it with some gentle reminders and then letting her take the consequences if she doesn't do it? I have taken this approach with DS recently and after losing a couple of playtimes he soon learnt his lesson and it took away that flashpoint between him and I, placing some of the responsibility on him which is a valuable skill to learn in preparation for senior school. Is she thriving at school otherwise? That may also be an indicator if a change is necessary.

toffee the biggest thing i realised when i started mfp was portion sizes! I couldn't fast, it would kill me.

My word you lot can talk!

I'm starving waiting for two for Tuesday dominoes dinner and reading about all your eating is not helping.

Dh has tackled our garden today and it looks fab. My job is now to keep the hanging baskets alive. I kill them every year

mercury my DS also starts middle school in September, it's a big step for them isn't it? wondering if we live in the same borough

Bbl pizza's here...

Hello all!

I haven't achieved much on the flying front except the morning routines, although I do plan to do some ironingwhilst watching tv. However, after struggling for months at Weight Watchers I have finally lost a stone

Narky I live in Milton Keynes. Are you in Buckinghamshire?

Quick list dump before I begin to tackle my ironing mountain (sorry for the lack of personals):

SandS
Make beds
Dw load/unload
5m bedroom windowsill hot spot
15m craft cupboard declutter
Mon, tues, wed mission
Volunteer at school
Water garden
Walk dog