September Fledglings: the new term has begun!

[Greymalkin]

Hello all, the new term has begun! So I'm taking the register; everyone please sign in...

I will set out the opening post curriculum once my home internet collection is restored

Ooh look --> teacher's pet!!

Quick list dump:

Ta da
Made beds x2
Tackled bedroom clothes piles
Found a small heap of clothes to take to charity shop
Dishwasher unload and reload
Hand washing up of a small mountain of pans and baking trays
Washed and hung up to dry two throw pillows
First load of laundry in to machine
Paid uni tuition fees [ouch]
Finished one set of uni reading, started on next lot

To do
Fold and put away dry laundry
Hang up wet laundry
Hoover sofas and living room
Wash more throw pillows
More Freud reading
Renew some club memberships

Ta das
Unloaded loaded dishwasher
Quick tidy up kitchen and living room
Emptied kitchen bin bathroom bin and nappy bin

We've been at toddler group this morning and then it was lunch and nap time for toddler (baby is also asleep although seems to be stirring so not sure how long this peace will last!!) so haven't got much done so far. The planning thing I don't have anything to plan really...not sure I get that one! I do meal plan but I do it on a Friday to tie in with my food shop. Anyway I'm going to ignore it!

To do
My bedroom is fairly decluttered but it needs a quick tidy
There isn't a clothes mountain in my room right now apart from a few bits of dh which I can put to wash so I think I'll tackle the ironing pile mountain instead!
Take stuff on the stairs upstairs and put away
Laundry
Ring GP
Make dinner
Make banana bread

Right now though I'm back feeding the baby again! Good job I made a cup of tea before I sat down.

Oh and strip the beds I really need to do that!!

We've sorted a few more bits to get rid of today :)

Hello again everyone,

Yippee please don't be scared by the thread - we all do our own thing vaguely using the FlyLady system. As you can see above, Foxes has adapted the system as she goes along.
If it helps, start by spending 15 minutes in this week's zone (the master bedroom) declutter and put things back in their proper places. If you feel like it, have a look at the missions in the links.
Oh, and welcome!

Lol Pauline - I'm so wrapped up with uni work at the moment that I have to do the round ups for my own benefit as much as everyone else! There are so many new fledglings this month, its great! But will take a couple of weeks to remember everyone properly.

More Ta Das
Folded and put away two loads of dry laundry
Hung up two lots of wet laundry
Prepped laundry for tomorrow
Hoovered the sofas and the living room
Emptied dishwasher again
Washed the spacers for DS's inhalers
Put the recycling out for collection tomorrow
Made dinner ready for later
Fed cats
Finished another batch of uni reading
Collected DS from nursery

Ta das
Made apple and pear loaf (instead of the planned banana bread as they had actually gone completely mouldy not just nice and soft as i had thought!) We had apples and pears from my mum's garden to use up and I couldn't disappoint dd as she was very excited about baking today.
Made dinner and cleaned up kitchen
Took stuff upstairs and put away
Put away laundry and put more on
Tidied bedroom
Stripped beds (dh can make them!)

Still to do
Ring GP must try and do this tomorrow!
Ironing

Hi everyone!
My day started badly(turn alarm off n fell asleep again)then discovered no bread so mad dash shop before breakfast....
Ta das
Fed cats
Run corner shop n buy bread
Made zoolets lunches and breakfasts
School run(realise ud took £10 nite,not £5 to pay school trip so had ask fir change
Community cafe shift
Washington
Clean bath and sink
Bleach lav
Mop hall floor
Clean cat drool off kitchen windowso I can see out again
10mins try make slight dent in my room(can't see any improvement)
Wash in dryer
Pick up Zoolets

I gave electrician coming tomorrow to sort some broken sockets in Zoolets rooms and front room.lil zoo and da were great helping sort their rooms.dd2 went fir play phone/histrionics at the suggestion helping I cracked in the end.usually I go down the banshee/screaming harpy route when I get criss with her attitude and tantrums and doesn't help,so today I try this approach. Calm.slow,quiet voice"I don't need to see your rage.go upstairs til it's gone please "age ranted,I repeated.and repeated.eventually she stomp off upstairs,I felt very satisfied with myself.partly fir not screaming back,partly cos I got what I wanted and she really hated me talking like that too her and not responding if you have stress kids I hope you will understand that I sometimes get pleasure from small strange things!!

Fed zoolets
Washed up

I am just waiting on tray roasted veggies then my tea is ready!!

Cheery wingflaps to all

Links for Wednesday 21st September: Here is the Launch Pad with all the basic information.

Baby step number twenty one: email FlyLady a question You will get a much better response if you ask any questions on this thread!

Wednesday is Anti-procrastination day - pick a task you have been putting off, roll your sleeves up and take the bull by its horns!

We are in Zone 4, The Master Bedroom aka, The Boudoir. Spend 15 minutes decluttering here. If you have finished decluttering here is the detailed cleaning list

The next mission this week is to tidy up the floors of your wardrobes and cupboards.

Our habit of the month is establishing a Before Bed Routine This is actually a really good habit to develop, as many of us can vouch for.

And a little bonus feature for this month: FlyLady's back to school tips

Thank you very much Greymalkin for the warm welcome. I spent 15 mins sorting stuff in the bedroom today and Mr Yippee looked a bit scared when he saw the transformation so it must have made a difference

I'm going to try to stick to the weekly missions from now till Christmas so when we get the Christmas decorations out there's actually clean surfaces to put them on! Fingers crossed anyway.

How many different zones ares there?

Decent day here. Certainly not as productive but still we got rid of some stuff. Family fun too trying out my latest card game purchase. :)

5 zones I think?
Entrance living room kitchen bathroom bedroom?

Ha ha grey - I handed in my uni payment plan form today! Monthly payments for 7 mos sounds much better than forking it all out at once!

And zoo! I cleaned dog drool off the windows yesterday! We can be beast drool buddies!

No flying yet today. I left the house at 6.30am and just got back, so suspect tonight will be a minimal load in the dishwasher and staring blankly at the tv before falling asleep on the sofa.

But tomorrow I have the day off! It's also dd2's birthday - my last baby becomes a teenager... so I suspect there will be baking on the horizon as well.

Morning. Very early post for me but i've been up for most of the night. Yesterday afternoon i suddenly came down with severe abdominal pains which turned out to be renal colic. Got sent home from a&e early evening but pains came back in the early hours of this morning and had to go back in to a&e. Back home again now but am knackered. Its going to be a long day!

Great ta da lists grey and foxes alongside uni work and young baby + yummy sounding apple & pear loaf respectively. Great list from Zoo as usual. Well done on the temper control too. Hi Yippy I find the whole flybaby thing confusing too but i have a fairly set routine of the basic chores so just use the mission targets to do the things i would never think of or are long overdue. Please don't mention the 'C' word until at least November though I'm one of those last minute people

Need to go i can hear the binmen trundling down the road and i haven't put them out yet!

Get well soon Celeste

Big hugs for celeste" get well soon honey
Mr yippee was terrified- now thats good cleaning!!
pontdeal.drool buddies it is!!

Usual ridiculous o'clock start at chez zoo,worsened by electricians visit fir today.I need get behind comoytwe table n check Zoolets haven't hidden any surprises at back dining table when I locating sockets fir him to fix
Ta das
Washing on
Fed cats
15mins sifting thru paperwork in my room(I am trying make a dent,really I am)
Made pack ups
Fed Zoolets
Wipe bath n sink
Clean toilet
Washing in dryer
Located and signed music contracts for school

I have assisted pick up fir the bin and just went put rubbish out.it's full.should've been emptied Monday

Computer table that should've said

Thanks. I've had two doses of morphine and had a finger stuck up my bum twice but i am currently in no pain. Just tired. I'll carry on and be calm as us Mums always do! It didn't half hurt though at the time!

[SC staggers on to thread .... peers at screen blearily]

Salve/salut/dag!

Celeste so sorry to hear about your trips to A & E; renal colic sounds awful! Hope you have received proper treatment and they haven't jsut fobbed you off. Wishing you a speedy recovery [flowes] Hope you can rest up today!

Thanks for links Grey and congrats on ta das! (Well done for managing to Fly in addition to child-rearing/potty-training, keeping on top of this thread and all your uni reading!) Relieved to learn that I cannot be a psychotic housewife but only in as much as I don't do enough housework to qualify

Good luck to those of you potty-training - I remember when I was potty-training dd that she had it about 80% right but I was worried because she was going to nursery - but that turned out to be a very good thing which finally "fixed it" because they all really enjoyed sitting in a line on the tiny lavs together Peer pressure can be a wonderful thing sometimes

A warm welcome to YippeeTeenager here is a bit of zone info. Great idea about doing missions in time for [whispers] Christmas. Don't be worried by the system - you don't need to understand all of it at the beginning - it sort of starts to click and make sense as you go along. If nothing else just do a baby-step + 15 mins of decluttering in current zone to start with and it will all soon fall in to place I promise!

Waves to PaulineFowlers Blue

Pont Congratulations (and sympathies!) on your young 'un entering teenage-hood! It's a very bitter-sweet feeling isn't it? Hope she had a lovely birthday!

Stillliving for multiple lists and hope electrician survived any surprises I need to learn from your example re: screech lowering as I can be very shouty but in my defence that is only when I have asked nicely and calmly about 11 million times first [grrrrrr] (DD is finding school very tough atm and I am understandably her main outlet for frustration.) Intrigued by your reference to Washington but just being nosey.

Still and Pont at drool cleaning buddies! Furry one here doesn't drool but does leave a rather charming pattern of nose prints on my car window.

Crikey Foxes! Think you deserve a medal for baking and attending toddler group so soon after giving birth! So here's a instead!

That's a good question about ironing btw! I don't think Flylady mentions it much does she (well only in relation to folding things straight out of the tumble dryer).

Your steady, consistent sorting and decluttering has not gone unnoticed Cag

Toostressy Hope job interview went well! Agree about doing things for the next day (such as laying out clothes/sorting stuff for errands/getting relevant papers together) during the day and not last thing at night. If I leave if until after dinner, then it often doesn't get done

Top marks for multi-tasking Fencingwire!

A very warm welcome also to Pinkoneblueone Outputgap and JustPeachy!

Take it steady Furble!

Big waves to Honu Toffee Dogsbum Feetheart Shannara and anyone else I have missed!

Just (finally) recovering from weekend of entertaining! Saturday went very well in the end but was v stressful as I had left everything far too much to last minute despite good intentions. Did most of clearing up afterwards but took me until 3am or so! Sunday was car-free day and we had a lovely time walking and cycling around in the sunshine and had friends back for picnic type late lunch (cooked early morning).

Still had clearing up to finish on Monday plus lots of office admin. And yesterday was spent doing laundry, doing final, final bits of tidying up and attending dog-training session that I found so exhausting for some reason that I collapsed on my bed afterwards fully clothed and woke up two hours later!! I don't know why but trainer is quite, um, emphatic and one's every gesture, hand movement and word is analysed and commented upon and it is all quite intense somehow, and I am on tenter-hooks wondering how furry one is going to behave.

Positives: garden and downstairs are still in "guest ready" state and I am extremely happy that I was able to do all the above at the weekend and my back seems to have survived!

So just starting week properly now really - and new diet and fitness regime - again

Ta da:
found old cotton t-shirt for dd (to use as art cloth)
animals
polished stove
wiped down kitchen surfaces
put out garden rubbish for collection
emptied out paper recycling bin
emptied and filled dw
s & s
triaged laundry
fed td and washing machines
dog walk

To do:
finance letters
prep dh's shirts for washing
hang up dd washing
think of something for supper and prep
brisk walk
diet chart
find and re-active pedometer
find "walking for fitness" book
find and prep and parcel up dd's oid clothes for niece

Big news is that our house is being valued in the next week or so (for financial reasons) so I have a hard task ahead getting home office sorted!

Have a good day everyone!

Oh poor you Celeste (that was meant to be flowers I was presenting you with earlier btw ... trying again ... )

Oh no Celeste! Hope you feel better soon.

I think they did sort of fob me off first time round. Hence i returned again late last night for the second time. To be fair they probably need the beds. They say the stones should have passed through my tubes by now though. Pain is definitely gone now so hopefully thats it...

ta das

put bins out
washed dishes
made beds

Morning All,
Slept through the night last night after a three hour afternoon nap (not sure what that's all about!) but feeling quite energetic so going to try and make hay whilst the sun shines...

Ta-das
One load washing done, hung and one load put away
Dishwasher unload and load
Washing up done
Sides done in kitchen
15 minute bedroom declutter (managed one drawer of bedside table)
Put off my procrastination on some emails and phone calls that needed doing and did them

To-do
Prepare this for dinner Aubergine Bake for dinner (aubergines 29p at Lidl this week!)
Paint nails
Get out for a walk
Clear floors of wardrobes in our bedrooms

Celeste so sorry to hear you have been through it overnight, it sounds very painful and exhausting. for you, take it very easy today.

Thanks for leading the thread Grey really enjoying following it so far!

Foxes I am in awe of you, a tiny baby and already getting so much done. You are my inspiration for the weeks ahead!

Best wishes to all for a lovely Wednesday.

ta das

put bins out
washed dishes
made beds
brought bins back in
toilet duck'd downstairs loo
zoflora'd kitchen sink
wiped kitchen worktops
cleaned microwave
cleaned hob
mopped kitchen floor

Not gonna do a full clean of the kitchen including bin, fridge, larder, etc today. That can keep for another week. Will chill this afternoon. Currently cuddled under duvet on the sofa with ds watching cbeebies

That sounds like a good idea Celeste!

Thanks furble I'm trying to stay on top of things ! I do seem to spend a lot of time feeding the baby though goodness me he likes his milk! Just hoping my dd isn't feeling pushed out I'm trying to make lots of time for her too.

Ta das
Picked up parcel
Did a quick top up shop (had lunch in the café which dd loved and ds stayed asleep - result!)

As I've only just got in my to do list is basically everything !! Just put dd down for her nap but can hear her still talking to herself so that's my excuse to sit quietly with a cup of tea and gaze at ds!

Ta das
Unloaded and load dishwasher
Emptied washing machine
Tidied living room a bit
Put shopping away

To do
Ring GP
Quick tidy bedroom
Hang laundry up put more on
Ironing
Cook dinner
Take some loo roll upstairs!!
Go to clothes bank and bottle bank

Ds has woken up again so back to the sofa!