Fledglings are Flying into February

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Welcome to the February Fledglings thread. Before we get started we have some important notices?:

1. The Fledglings are a long running thread, some of us have known each other for several years but newcomers are always welcome.

1. We follow the Flylady way (somewhat flexibly) and we adapt it to suit our lives and needs. That also means we chat a lot too, it is a general thread about life, as well as Flylady.

So the fly lady system there are rules and we have adaptations.?

1. NO perfectionism - life’s too short.?
2. Something is better than nothing and sometimes good enough really is good enough.?
3. This is not about the housework, it is about having more time to do fun stuff. Don't ever feel guilty about doing stuff with the kids over doing the housework. The kids are more important.??And the practical adaptations.
4. For newbies to the Flylady site and system everything you need will be posted here in the form of links. The homes is divided into zones where we spend one week each on a monthly basis. Within the zones we do babysteps and decluttering - the babysteps are little daily habits to get into, decluttering speaks for itself. As we progress we start doing missions (a more in depth task in that weeks zone). We may even get to detailed cleaning once we have decluttered. There are also daily tasks, on a weekly basis.

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So, welcome on board and lets get Flying in February!

Morning all!

This is just to let you know that the March thread is here!

I'll post the links for Saturday and Sunday tomorrow morning Toffee and if you would kindly look after thread from Saturday late afternoon until Tuesday evening inclusive, I'll take up the reins again early Wed morning. Thank you enormously!

And huge thanks to Whoknows for being so stalwart and guiding us through February, whilst dealing with all sorts of extremely stressful events at home

Big waves to all and bbl to catch up!

Ok, not sure if anyone is still reading this thread, but just in case, here are some links for tomorrow. I'm off to bed in a minute, got to be up at 6 tomorrow for a trip out with DS's Scout troop I must be mad.

Saturday 28th Feb

Babystep - take care of yourself.

No mission as it's the weekend, just our normal Saturday Family Fun Day

Me, me, me, me. I am thanks whoknows

ta da
work
2 x laundry loads
1 batch dinners cooked up, portioned out and in the freezer
Finish off strip of knitting for throw

Me too! Bitchy, hope the arm is healing nicely. Sling, will be thinking of you on Monday.

I have a terrible cough now, but that always happens after a cold. At least I managed to stay awake all day today and not have to crawl into bed - yay me! Also helped out at a school PTA thing tonight which I could have done without but hey, it's done.

Will have to do some serious work on the house this weekend. A few tip trips are needed as we bought some furniture last weekend. The cardboard boxes alone are a menace but the screws didn't fit one piece of furniture at all and we had to order some specially (Costco furniture has american-thread screws or something) so at last that is together and the rest of the packaging can go.

Hi all, back from nice evening out in local pub (I wasn't drinking though with some local ladies

Mrs Fox fox ears on a hair band, face paint, print dress, apron and long tail made of fake fur? I think Mrs Fox sounds brilliantly original and she might well win a prize!! (sorry if it is not PC to promise prizes)
Whoknows ouch googling...I will remember never to google anything foxy!

Today I gathered up all the washing in two enormous bin bags
I did one load

Ds2 friend round
Took ds2 to Home ed football
Then took him to the gym to do running and cycling on their treadmills as his request

back home and nearly fell asleep - it is exhausting all this exercise by association. It is always tiring when ds has a friend round too - I feel I have to keep reminding ds not to interrupt or perserverate although I know I shouldn't. Luckily his friend is a very straightforward fellow and told him he was rude to interrupt His Mother...

Ds1 has a big sponsored walk tomorrow with his Confirmation class 5 miles to the cathedral. He doesn't have any sponsors though [erm] as he has NOT ORGANISED ANY.

Supper was a bit of disaster zone as dd started throwing rice at ds1 for being disrespectful to her and ds2 ran away when he saw the curry.

Cooked homemade curried mince but it wasn't a great hit with kids. Shrieks on finding bits of mushroom. Dh ate it though.

Early start for me too.

Another early start here. But running late as I was not thinking clearly when I set the alarm clock. Vat of special brew for all.

Yes I'm still reading! Good luck witht the scouts Whoknows! Hope trip goes well.

And good luck to your ds1 on his walk Swan

And have a good day Bitchy

[Respect to all of those with such early Saturday starts]

Thank you Fizrim Hope cough subsides quickly.

Dashing around getting ready for travel. Like Minisok have a lot of ironed clothes to put away. Trying to get to hairdresser and dd to osteopath.

Good luck, SC - hope it all goes ok.

Swan - your post made me laugh. Loved the dinner disaster and children shrieking at mushrooms. Glad it's not just me.

Am Flying this weekend as the house is a disaster. Am going to Swan's idea of gathering up dirty washing in a bin bag or two.

Have done a bit of work today but nowhere near enough! Jet thrust flying needed next week/month, I think! See you on the March thread tomorrow!

Just a quick one to say that I haven't vanished, even though people might think that I have as it's been a big gap since I last posted.

Actually I have been flying with the de-cluttering, I have de-cluttered most days in Feb, although not the last few days, and I've done much more than the 15 mins on many days so I've actually achieved loads. In fact I think I might go as far as to say that I've at least started, if not finished dealing with all my worst clutter spots and I certainly feel like I've started dealing with my clutter rather than ignoring it.

My study is still the worst place but I have finally not only started dealing with it but have actually made significant headway. So I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself. Side effect of this seems to be that I got myself into a weird head space that I felt like I couldn't keep the momentum up and stick with the thread until the month was up. I kept feeling like if I turned to catching up with the thread it would be an avoidance of the de-cluttering (which I think it would have been to be fair!)

Anyway, I think I'm now too far behind with the thread to catch up so I might just try to leap back in to the thread in the next couple of days without catching up, I hope it people will understand but it feels too overwhelming to do it any other way.

I have to confess to feeling a bit disappointed that March's thing is to get dressed as I can't see me gaining any real benefit from that in the way that I have from the de-cluttering, but maybe someone can enlighten me as to how this can be helpful to cleaning and tidying, I'm trying but struggling to see the benefit at the moment.

Anyway, now that I've started de-cluttering and I have seen how setting a target of just 15 minutes can really help me to get started I'm going to try and still do some regularly, even if not daily after this last month.

I hope that everyone has been ok while I've been away and I look forward to re-joining the gang in the next few days. Goodnight

Hello there! We have moved over to March's thread. Fat fairy's logic is that if you hang about in your pjs you are more likely to sit on the sofa doing nothing, where as if you wake up, get dressed and ready for the day then you are more likely to just do that job or that thing so less lounging more productivity. It works for some and not others. Well done on all the decluttering dogsbum now come join us in march, sc is leading and I have already started a revolution and the month not yet started. Poor SC

Thanks Bitchy I didn't think about the fact that you'd be into a new month now, I would have been wondering where everyone had gone!

Now that you've said it I guess that makes sense about getting dressed, it's a mindset thing, I will experiment with it and see if it makes a difference to my cleaning mentality. I like the term fat fairy, very amusing.

I'm intrigued to find out what the revolution is so I will hop over to March now and check it out! See you over there......