Hi all, well done for surviving the first week of September everyone, which is always pretty stressful!!
Bit of a mixed day here. Hideous muscle spasm in side (not really my back) is causing me grief. At worst, feels like an electric shock which makes you feel sick!
[Dog and I, both nursing injuries, both lurching wierldly to the right when we walk - must look a pretty sight - although walk consisted of quick crawl to nearest lamp post and back and had to poo pick v gingerly indeed - afraid I wouldn't be able to get back upright again and would be found by passer by face down in canine by-product!! 
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Just about survived volunteer clear up and came home and lay on sofa. Feel badly for dh because it is his birthday and we were all going out for a meal to celebrate but I couldn't get in car, so we had to have take out instead (with rather nice bottle of wine to make up for food). Fortunately had wrapped and assembled presents and cards well in advance.
Won't be able to join dh and dd on family outing tomorrow that I was really looking forward to. Never mind eh. Just one of those things and certainly makes you appreciate being able bodied usually and how exhausting it must be to have limited mobility and yet another-- a heads up that I am overweight and unfit and should do something about it asap.
Sorry that was very 'me' 'me'. Hope everyone ok.
Hope you managed a bit of r& r today Can'tsee
Arf at chef Dogsbum think you are probably right as peeling function sounds too good to be true!! I remember the photo-family gift backlog situation well btw!! People don't realise that you can't just endlessly dress and re-dress a baby. It's enough of a palaver getting baby bathed, nappy changed, clean clothing on as I recall. Once they are asleep, you are certainly not going to wake them up for a photocall!
Toffee well done wrt organised and gradual school acclimatisation regime! Much better than the sudden shock re-entry as practised here.
DD has had good start to term but (owing to the above) is white as a sheet and over-tired so we are all going to bed now (8.45pm here!).
DD seems to like secondary school so far, and has made two new friends. She says her geography teacher has a really, really long pointed red nose with a bobble on the end of it, that all the teachers are really, really strict and most exciting of all, her class doesn't have to walk in a line downstairs altogether to go to the playground at lunch time (they can just walk 'free'!!), and that there are vending machines!!
Enjoy your weekends everyone!
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Baby-step no. 5 for Sat 5th 2015 is here. Keep up with previous steps and banish negative thinking from your mind (in my case "it's too overwhelming, I can't do it, so I won't bother"). Replace with positive thoughts!
We are currently in Zone 1: The Entrance, Front Porch and Dining Room here.
For those Fledglings at this stage: here is the detailed cleaning list for Zone One.
No missions because it is the weekend!
The daily focus for Saturday is family fun. Newcomers: one of the aims of the Flylady system is that, because cleaning routines are being followed during the week, weekends can be reserved for family time and relaxation (well, that's the theory anyway!)
The habit for September is developing a before-bed routine here.
Summary of above (which updates itself automatically) is here: flight plan.
TGIF!!