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!!

[8FencingWire]

:)
Got planning to do today but also label DD's uniform and the (what seems like) 60 pairs of shoes for school.
Must tidy the kitchen/dining a bit today.

I've never been a 'cat person', but I quite love mine now. I can mumsy the cat now
After this weekend there are no more plans, no more visits etc. We will take some time to settle into our new routine.

I don't have a big dinning table and no centre piece, but Homesense has some autumn wreaths with a space for a candle in the middle. I love dahlias in autumn, a farm nearby sells huge beautiful ones, I tend to have those.
Which reminds me: I need a new door wreath for Christmas. I bought lots of candles and fairy light from Ikea last weekend, I am soooo ready for autumn/winter. It's already getting dark!

[foxessocks]

Well I was ready to start and then I went and has a baby! I will be on the thread soon though!!

[feetheart]

Achieved quite a lot yesterday as everyone was back at work/school and I'm determined not to waste so much time faffing around so I actually have some time for some creative stuff.
First of all I need to beat this house into shape and remove a huge load of clutter. Started well the other weekend by clearing out the garage and yesterday I loaded the car for the charity shop and stuck some things on Freecycle.

Today's to do:

• Work
  
• Washing hung out and another load on
  
• Charity shop run to drop stuff off and find large picture frame (for an idea for parkrun on Saturday!!)
  
• Load car with PTA stuff that has been lurking in our garage
  
• Take PTA stuff to school and store it there
  
• Pick elderly neighbour's plums for her (and get to keep most of them :))
  
• 15 minutes decluttering kitchen
  
• Clean out cutlery drawer (assuming that is what is meant by 'silverware'!)
  
• Meeting at school re PTA dates for the year - I do like an organised head teacher who wants parents to be involved :)
  
• Feed family
  
• Tackle Mount Ironmore which is getting out of control
  

There are lots of other things but I'll stick with the main ones to start with.
Have a good day everyone.

[CotswoldStrife]

Congratulations on the new arrival foxes - we like photos no pressure

[celeste83]

Morning,

Congratulations foxes

Ta das

made breakie
took ds to nursury
washed dishes
made beds
cleaned fridge
cleaned microwave
cleaned grill
cleaned hob
bleached kitchen sink
dettol'd kitchen worktop
mopped kitchen floor

Chilling out now having some me time.

[biscuitbadger]

Yes I think it's clear. Much nicer reading on here rather than the fly lady website so thank you for posting all the daily links!

I'm about to do my 15 mins decluttering in the kitchen. And clean my 'silverware' drawer :)

[Stilllivinginazoo]

Congrats foxes on your new arrival

Well it's been mayhem today.I was up before 6as had a billion things to do nd no other space to fit them in!!
Ta da
Fed cats
Wash on
Hotspot di ong table
Scrub kitchen surfaces of cat
Wipe cupboard fronts of cat
Clean sink and draining board of sodding cat hair.amazing poor fella not bald amount he been shedding
Wash in dryer
2nd load on
Fed zoolets
Made pack up
Made beds
Slot in quick dash to asda
School run
Shift at community cafe 9-2.30.we have join junk food project and care making meals from food destined fir landfill as best before dates pass/on use by/people weren't in fir their delivery of shopping.....today we made roast chicken portions, carrots n swede,mash potatoes and for veggies Yorkshire pud with vegi sausages and ratatouille with rice.puds-apple sponge n custard, bakewell tart and fruit tart all served with custard.its pay as you feel so offers those very little chance to eat good hit meal,and those with a social conscience chance eat out.payment is just put in a donation bucket.we made £59 which is used to pay fir heat/light of premises and if in time we have surplus will be spent on the community
Got in had shower
Pick up zoolets
Get lil zoo and dd2ready trampolining
Finally ate something!!(D's sneak on snack)
Just put tea in oven,girls due back at 5.15 fir quick tea then D's and dd2go fun n faith til 7!!
I finally get flop in heap 7.30 have put lil zoo and D's up to bed(they read for a while)whilst dd2impersonates hippo in bath and dp n I get some much needed food and time together!!!!

(Grabs couple toffees biscuits and scuttles to check on boiling pans)

[Stilllivinginazoo]

(Remembers manners. Thanks toffee.sweeps up crumbs as exits nsughty corner)

[MercuryRising]

Congratulations Foxes

Just in the middle of making dinner so I thought I would post a quick tada

Beds made
Swish and swipe
Small pile of ironing
Braved weight watchers for the first time in 8 weeks
Collected a parcel
Repacked lunch boxes
Took ds2 to baby swimming session

I managed to only gain half a pound in eight weeks which I am really pleased about but because ds2 has begun weaning I have lost a third of my daily points - I am going to starve If anybody has any low fat vegi recipes they would like to share I would be very grateful.

[Cagliostro]

Hi all :)

No Flying other than putting a wash on. Need to go and do another one (but must get the Caglets to bring down their own laundry for that.

It's technically the first day of term here, so we are back into 'proper' home ed. DH took them for a walk in the woods and this afternoon we've done learning stuff, mostly science. They're playing out again now. They were going a bit loopy/hyper so I chucked them outside. Seems to be a pattern there.

[BlueEyeshadow]

Congratulations, Foxes! :)

[8FencingWire]

Congratulations fox!
Very busy day everyone, mine doesn't go back to school till tomorrow, so I am really busy this evening, she was on her own today and the house is a mess!
Will report back!

[MrsMook]

I'm venturing back after an absence of about a year! I was working full time on a maternity contract which put anything domestic into basic survival mode. This is if the agency doesn't successfully link me up with the school that they were talking about today... I don't mind if I'm being too fussy for them at the moment!

Today has been dealing with post-camping chaos. Day 1 of drying a slug infested 8 man tent, shopping, restoring the lawn from near meadow like lengths, youngest having had a long appointment with the nurse for asthma care and preschool jabs. The older one starts back at school on Thursday and I'm looking forward to some me time when the younger one has his nursery hours.

[TooStressyForMyOwnGood]

Congratulations foxes! Have been out of the house most of the day so not much done but...
Ta da: decluttered a bit of Happyland toys (sold on Facebook ) and also decluttered a small bag of other toys to charity.

To do:
Get DD1's bags ready for first day back at school tomorrow
Declutter some paper - newsletters from nursery and post from today.

Felt quite organised today as stayed up to do a proper before bed routine last night and got all stuff ready the night before. Also got up early enough to be calm and ready this morning for big work day.

I find though if I get everything ready the night before it just takes so long! I often wonder what I am doing wrong. Was up until midnight last night then had to get up at 5 this morning. Not the end of the world but don't really want to do that through choice all the time! What am I doing wrong please?!

[8FencingWire]

I don't know, but I don't watch tv every night and sort of tackle everything really quickly?
So I managed to tidy most of the house, sink is shining, one load of washing done. Then the phone rang and I've been chatting for England.
Tomorrow is another day :)

[pontificationcentral]

Congratulations foxes!
Busy day here today as first day at uni. Went really well, but suspect tomorrow it is going to hit me how behind I am in comparison with everyone else...
I am very glad that I did a lot of meal prep last week - and I chopped all my veggies last night for dinner tonight, too ;-)

TA das from the weekend include having my mirror and pictures hung in the dining room (yay dh) but sadly I didn't manage the ironing...

No time for today's lists as it's just 'keeping head above water and surviving' day. This week is carnage with orientation stuff every day, so next week will be settling into new routine.

Did someone say biscuits?

[Greymalkin]

Hi all, sorry for late links, got to get DS ready for nursery, will catch up on yesterday and do personals later...



Links for Wednesday 7th September: Here is the flight plan for a summary

Baby step number seven: laying out your clothes for tomorrow before going to bed This is one that a lot of us do and would really recommend.

We are continuing in Zone 2, The Kitchen Spend 15 minutes decluttering here. If you have finished decluttering here is the detailed cleaning list

Today's mission is to remove any science experiments from inside your fridge

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.

Wednesday daily focus is anti-procrastination day - pick a task you have been putting off, roll your sleeves up and get on with it]]

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

[celeste83]

Morning,

Mercury I'm vegetarian, chickpeas, kidney beans, rasins, lentils, brown rice and quorn are all low fat. I do normally supplement meals with potatoe, nuts, cheese or gnnochi however which aren't as good fat wise. Sounds like you are doing well though.

ta da

put recycling out
made breakie
washed dishes
made beds
cleaned bath
cleaned bathroom basin
wiped the loo

Managed to clean the bathroom without resorting to putting bleach down the loo. Jeremy Germ, Steve-Coli and the other Germlets hiding under the rim of my loo must think they've found a cushty nook #stupid dh and his stupid challenge.

Just having a cuppa then cracking on.

[Cagliostro]

Morning Fledglings!

Term is truly underway here. DH is off today so he's taken the Caglets to the woods on their bikes (they were fixed over summer, finally!). They've asked to do more science and we're going to attempt to learn some of the witches' lines from Macbeth.

(I hope people don't mind if I post what we're doing, home ed wise - keeps me motivated!)

I have to admit, I was really quite pleased that my usual Wednesday pupil isn't starting back until next week - could do with the money (summer is very quiet for tutoring!) but the living room is a pit. It's really awful. Need to get it sorted. Sigh.

Now I need to hang laundry out.

[Cagliostro]

I'm finally catching up on the thread (see, I REALLY haven't been Flying) - just noticed your Masters subject. Wow! I'd love to hear more about that sometime. My second date with DH - nearly 14 years ago now - was to the Freud museum. Not romantic :o but interesting.

[8FencingWire]

Fridge checked, I had some green beans I forgot about. Penicillin for a village that was.
Did a load of washing.
It's quite untidy but I'll sort it afted dinner ;)

[TooStressyForMyOwnGood]

Thanks 8Fencing, not sure what I'm doing wrong with before bed routine then. I could whiz round it a bit quicker but don't let myself collapse and watch telly until it's done. Hopefully will improve with time!

Have only just got back after a long day at work and DH upstairs doing bedtime for DC so won't get a chance to do much today but will do a before bed routine and lay out clothes for tomorrow :)

[WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeG0es]

Evening all and congratulations to Foxes .

My new term time routines are working well so far (made easier by lack of extra-curriculare evening activities this week, so it could all go wrong next week). Floors clear every night is working downstairs, not up, but one thing at a time. So morning now is breakfast dishwasher etc (done by DH and DCs), get DCs out the door plus run the (cordless) vac round downstairs and mop the kitchen floor.

Afternoon is unpack lunchboxes, deal with mail/letters from school etc. School bags are repacked after homework is done. Also tend to try and squeeze in mission or any other cleaning in that time.

Evening is make packed lunches if needed (occasional for the DCs, most days for me) tidying floors and swish and swipe the bathroom. I've found that if I keep up with the laundry there's no need to put clothes out the night before, if the floors are tidy that usually involves putting shoes and coats on racks so they are there for the morning and I've never put breakfast stuff out.

Celeste - I know I commented the other day, but I've missed the origins of this no-bleach challenge, what's it about? Does your DH think you use too much of it? I'm of the view that as we don't touch the bowl of the toilet the germs don't need to be totally exterminated (especially the ones with cute names!), although I do use it if someone gets a tummy bug, but they are thankfully rare here.

• I have done three missions so far this week, after a summer of not doing them at all. Fridge, cutlery drawer and cooker have all been cleaned out. I've started using a bullet journal, I never did get on with Flylady's control journal, but in my bullet journal is a habit tracker where you check off daily on a chart of habits you want to maintain (no crisps, pelvic floor exercises, walk 10k steps etc). This week I added Daily Mission to it, as well as swish and swipe and clear floors, it seems to be working on the motivation front. However I haven't added "lights out by 11.30"

[foxessocks]

Hello everyone ! Picture as requested

So I'm keeping an eye on this thread and hoping to properly join in soon. Probably when dh goes back to work and we are all back in our routine. I did manage to give the kitchen a wipe down this morning and fold the laundry so I'm trying to keep vaguely on top of things and dh is doing most stuff but obviously it's pretty busy here with a new baby and a toddler! So mostly we are drinking tea and eating chocolate

Thanks for all the congratulations and hope I can be a proper part of the thread soon!

[Greymalkin]

Hell fire.... I forgot the links last night



Links for Thursday 8th September: Here is the flight plan for a summary

Baby step number eight: start putting together your control journal

We are continuing in Zone 2, The Kitchen Spend 15 minutes decluttering here. If you have finished decluttering here is the detailed cleaning list

Today's mission is to to declutter your plastic wrap/sandwich bags/tin foil

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.

Thursday focus is errand day Any task to be done outside of the home: grocery shopping, tip runs, dry cleaning, doctor appointments, that sort of thing.

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