Flying into September - a new term for the Fledglings

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Welcome to the September Fledgling Flylady Thread.

This thread is for people with CHAOS (can't have anyone over syndrome). We follow Flylady, the website with a mission!

All are welcome on this thread, experienced flyers and newcomers alike.

We try to follow the commandments of Flylady as we run our homes, loosely anyway. In between there's lots of chat and support as we go through our daily lives. We have coffee, cake, and a naughty corner for those who want to chat but CBA with their house some days. However you follow it, this thread is designed to make your life a little easier and more fun.

For those who are new to the system (and those needing a refresher), there are several aspects to the system:

1. Babysteps. These build a routine. Some are really useful, some are downright odd and some are, quite frankly, there to be ignored. They build a good foundation though.

1. Decluttering. Flylade is evangelical about clutter. In order to feel good about our homes we need to ditch the clutter. Flylady divides the home into zones, week by week and repeating monthly. As well as babysteps, we have to declutter in the relevant zone. Once that is achieved we move on to...

1. Missions. Also in the current zone, these are targetted tasks to tackle one particular aspect. One a day, they vary month to month.

1. Deep Cleaning. Once we have completely decluttered (some of us seem to be stuck permanently on that stage) there are deep cleaning lists for each zone. Achieve that and your house will be spotless!

One last thing - the Flylady website encourages us to subscribe to her emails - one word - DON"T! You will be overwhelmed by them. Instead come to this thread every morning and the relevant links for the day will be there waiting for you except when the thread leader has been on the

A big thank you to Bitchy for last month, and also for doing this Sunday's links as I am off camping.

Very tired & fine very little today

Up early to see dd off to her new school. Then took ds to school & went to work

Dd got home just before 8- had a great day. Had a nice half hour with her before bed then hand washed her leotard & tights.

Am now very tired. Didn't even shine my sink.

It's late, been a busy day and out till about half an hour, so just going to drop the links in and go to bed.

Hotspots. One of the most worthwhile babysteps IMO.

Mission - ceilings, light fittings and windowsills.

Daily Focus - declutter your handbag and car.

Night night my lovely Fledglings.

wendy

we should do a house swap.
I'm convinced it would be so much easier to sort someone else's pigsty home than your on - no emotions, no distractions, just ploughing through the chaos until the job is done.

Morning all.

Feeling better this morning after getting a good night's sleep.

The one positive about the return to work is I get the Friday feeling back.

I watched Educating Yorkshire programme as well. Love a good school documentary as always sit and compare to mine. My school received a letter from the producers of that programme asking us to take part. So glad the offer wasn't taken up! And the eyebrows are everywhere at our place too!

Am going to do some flying today at some point. promise.

zing I reckon you could be onto something with the houseswap. I bet we all live within a couple of hours of at least 1 member of the thread.

Have a good day everyone.

Hi all, limited flying this week as have been spoiling Joe due to it having been his birthday. Hooray!

But now mega-flying as its his party on Sunday and even though we've kept it low-key, the weather looks shocking so it will be 11 kids + parents in one small room with limited entertainment

Plus have now discovered a troop of bees living in the back garden AS WELL AS the front garden.

List:
Fix downstairs toilet (so I don't have to clean the bathroom before party)
Call plumber if my efforts don't work
Call hospital to get more pain relief for Joe prescribed and then go and collect it
Tidy and clean playroom (again)
Sort out hallway once and for all (and then slap the next person who dumps a bag there)
Write shopping list
Clean downstairs toilet / bathroom whichever one works
Make up party bags
Wrap pass the parcel

Ugh.

I know I'm near wendy and not a million miles from pmpy I think I'm not too far from you either ellie if you don't go too far for your seaside jaunts.

Yes I think Wendy, Trazzles, ellie and I are all reasonably close together. Bitchy's not far away either. A house swap is a splendid idea. Please would someone clean the staircarpet

Off to Stirling for the day today. Definitely too far!

To do
Go to Stirling
Come back
Feed mum's cat
Half an hour of finances
Washing x 1

The Northern contingent can get this sorted.

trazzles no I don't go too far. Just travel North for an hour or so.

I would like to put in a request for the cleaning of the oven.

Still not feeling great, and am feeling really overwhelmed by the house getting messy again as I didn't have the energy to do anything more than the absolute minimum wiping round and ironing when I got back from work yesterday. Not helped by my mum picking the DC up from school and letting them dump their bags on the kitchen floor and leave sweet wrappers everywhere Everyone is tired and grumpy at the end of the first week back at school and tempers are starting to fray.

I am dosing myself up and aiming for:

To Do
Wash up
Wipe around kitchen
Sweep kitchen floor
Clean bathroom and toilets
Tidy up
Ironing
Tesco order
Tumble dry last night's wash (it is raining)
Put another wash on and tumble dry it

Not much of that list will get done before work though.

I really need to look at the Hot Spots link as they are a major problem in our house. The breakfast bar in the kitchen is the worst, everyone just walks in and dumps stuff on it.

Let me add to my list:

Clean up sick

done
dd off on bus at 7.15 (although this requires no effort on my part - she is very directed [smile) I honestly think we would only need set the alarm and she would do the rest...
Drove boys to school at 8.00am. Possibly a mistake to have them both in the car as I had a headache by the end of the journey which is usually quite therapeutic with one boy. Ds1 is TALKING NON-STOP! I thought teenagers only grunted...
My driving is improving despite the New Roundabout.

The cleaning lady is about to appear, but as usual I have managed to bodge things up by having no parking vouchers to give her aargh...
todo
finish deep cleaning and tidying my room
put all washing in utitlity
find some ironing for cleaning lady
rationalize rationlize rationalize clutter on landing/bedrooms so she can hoover everywhere
loads more washing
cook supper in advance - ratouille, baked potatoes, ham
the car is also BAD

ellie ds1 was shocked by a) the swearing b) the isolation cubicles.

After feeling tired and demotivated yesterday morning I ended up working on the house all day !!

I threw loads out from the kitchen - gutted two units and two cupboards and did loads of other stuff

Washing dishes everything happened yesterday and I feel much more motivated to continue :) yay me ! Long may it last

How are you all ?? Xxxx

Quite pleased with my efforts yesterday!

Ta Da:

• Paperwork in dining room filed away and sorted (big job!)
• Dining room hoovered
• All random bits of DD's rounded up, then sorted and put away in appropriate shelf/box etc whilst at the same time binning toot and recycling piles of scribbled on paper
• Kitchen bin and recycling box emptied
• Misc bits returned to garage
• Last of the party invites posted off
• Dinner made
• DW emptied and sink shined

DS was an hour late reaching us as he had had to catch a Bus midjourney as a poor soul had thrown themselves under an earlier train :(

I then spent a pleasant few hours baking cakes whilst DS and DD played Scrabble and Monopoly together. This sounds a "normal" household activity for siblings but the age gap and being separated means they are precious moments.4

Today's major task is to design and make a soft toy for a friends autistic son. Just hope it turns out at least something like it is meant to look!

Am good thanks Jesstryinghard..

Ta da..
Cleaned kitchen floor and cupboard doors
Wiped kitchen counters and put away stuff left out.
Put a wash on.
Polished staircase so house smells nice.
Fed cat, myself and dd!!
Played numerous games with dd.
Washed up.
Got dressed and dd dressed.

To do..
Pop to shop.
Take dd to park.
Cook dinner.

Ok quick q for you lovely lot...

I'm running out of jobs for my lovely cleaner to do. She gets all the 'basics' done in about 1.5 hrs which leaves 30 mins each week for' extras' by I can never think of anything. That's not to say my house is sparkling everywhere but I never know what appropriate to ask so I usually just let her go early, not a good use of my money!

Any ideas?

Inside of kitchen cupboards
Iron linen
Skirting boards
Could she prepare veg?

Have survived parents visiting and back to school. The realisation has just hit me that DS2's birthday party is tomorrow!!

TO DO (Before 4pm tomorrow)
Work...
Cake out of oven, cooled and iced
Make jelly
Tidy and hoover downstairs
Wrap presents & do card
Wrap up pass the parcel
Pray for fine weather!
Cook enchilladas for tonight
Laundry dry and away
Last minute shopping
Sort out phones

Probably more stuff too, but need to get on with the work now.

Sorry to hear about sick and bad nights.

Omg I fixed our toilet! I'm practically a qualified plumber now!!!

Now off to try to book a bouncy castle for the weekend...

Hooray for early September birthdays Blue

trazzle

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here's your honorary plumbers medal!

ta da

• sorting through clothes and toys, sent a bag full of both to playgroup, anothet massive bag is in car,waiting to be delivered to SIL.
• went through next size up clothes for DD also

to do

• more of the same
• iron my fabrics

Way to go trazzle

trazzle well done!

blue is everything ready for tomorrow, or are you running round like a headless chicken?

zing good work with the clothes, I love being able to clear them out.

Done
Morning routines
Dd to school
Helping Hands @ school (couple of hours laminating, glueing etc -loved it)
Bring in laundry that DH left out yesterday!
Go to work

ta da
school run

not doing anything today. pain is pretty bad so I have decided a chill out day with pain killers and rest was the way to go. thoroughly enjoying my book though.

nicknacks outside windows? dust tops of pictures everywhere?
sort out linen cupboard? Sounds like your house was quite orderly to start with.

The cleaning lady has tidied my linen cupboard this morning, deep cleaned two bathrooms, hoovered ds1's room and dusted his "surfaces", folded the clothes in his drawers, and ironed about 20 items. That took three hours and she is very fast. So no kitchen, no utitilty no downstairs, no living room.

I've gutted ds2's room again and cleaned out under his bed
sorted the bathrooms so cleaning lady could clean them - threw out loads of old bottles, and removed laundry
put away some summer clothes
decluttered various objects/put them in right places
tidied kitchen and washed up
recycling
bins
washing in
washing hung out
another load in
leftovers for lunch
put away clothes

Homework rant alert: argued with DH about morning routine with children/homework supervision etc - came to some agreement. I am doing breakfast 2 days, he is determined to do it 3 days. I am organising uniform in general, and dealing with ds2, he is dealing with ds1 and his "stuff"/signing homework diary etc, getting him out of the house. Ds1 was very sloppy last term and I was trying to get some backup for checking his work but Dh basically told me I was making things worse. However I am now allowed to talk through his homework BEFORE he does it, rather than complaining about it after he has done it. He is now in Set 3 for everything which is set (excluding humanities subjects) except English where he is in Set 2. A bit depressing really.

Argument was prompted by me watering down Ds1's juice to make it healthier this morning and Dh objecting!! We are a pair...