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!!

Your tada lists are all very impressive!

With the kids back at school for a week I have been working hard to keep to the flylady jobs for each day. It's making quite a difference already. :) What I'm finding hardest though is making myself stop when the timer goes off! I need to though as I want this to be a sustainable system rather than something that triggers me to blitz the whole house then crash out and let it get dirty again.

Back from a lovely afternoon at forest school. Somewhat knackered. I had hoped to delay my morning pupil til next week but they're coming tomorrow! Think of the money Cag, think of the money... but aaargh! I am pottering about when I can.

Evening all,

Hi Furble

You've been busy today Salutary Am idea what the armed troops on the streets is all about?

My ta das today

made beds
hoovered all rooms
made tea
washed dishes
wiped kitchen
bathed ds
cleaned bathroom bin

Thanks for the suggestions. On reflection I've decided to ignore the Monday bleugh for now. Goals have to be achievable otherwise it's too discouraging. Aiming for 15 minutes decluttering per day is enough for now. The kids and I do the washing up, downstairs vacuuming and bins each night. Maybe I can add a tiny bit to that.
Small ta da:
Decluttered and cleaned under one kids bed.

Hi all, SC, hope you get something sorted with ballet. How frustrating for your DD. Everyone else seems very busy . Today is a bit of a write off. Out at work all day, back late as DDs had after school activity, just got them into bed late about 15 mins ago. Not helped by DD1 (5 years old!) deciding to try out my new mascara which I had left on the side . Had to laugh as she had done a pretty good job but that had to come off before bed! Still not emptied the car boot with all the debris from today, starting a course tomorrow so need to dig out details for that. DH busy with home stuff tonight. Going to have a shower and get on but realistically it is ready meal and the bare minimum tonight. Will try to fly tomorrow!

DH busy with work stuff sadly not home stuff!

Evening all

Ta da con'td/...

Managed to wash a load of woollens and scarves that had been in the "hand wash pile I will tackle at some point" laundry bin ... .

And made a proper potato salad which we had with ham and salad for supper.

Also ironed stuff for dh who is leaving on a business trip at crack of sparrows tomorrow mornign and polished his shoes and, er, packed his bag

Also took in a load of sheets/table cloths/pillow cases to be calandered

Quick supermarket shop/bank run

[Rant alert warning - feel free to ignore]

Attended very hot and very full school meeting this evening (just got back). [Why does nobody ever open a ruddy window in this country?????]

Ironically, the wero (combo of history/geog/sociology) teacher said "I give hwk (projects) days in advance so if your child leaves it until the night before they are doomed to fail.

And, yes, you've guessed it, I came home to find dd still up at 10.30pm doing hwk (hr ahead here) and when I questioned her as to why (9.30pm is bed-time normally as we have v early starts) she said "I am doing wero" and when I said "when were you given this hwk?" she replied "the beginning of last week"

So tomorrow she will be going to school with incomplete hwk, too little sleep (dh will be getting up at 4.30 am) and we are only in week three.

She swore blind at the weekend that she had completed everything too.

Yaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhh!

[Rant over]

Oh yes, also went to post office

(but didn't get banking done, or dye hair, or clear bed or find ice cream machine )

Ta for links Grey!

Oh dear about the mascara Stressy!! Hope course goes well!

Fromwesttoeast sounds as if you are already doing v well indeed if you are hoovering daily so wouldn't worry about home bleugh!!

Celeste security has been heightened since attacks here (and in Paris and Nice). Threat hasn't really diminished but no recent specific/news communications about it so don't really know what is going on tbh. Good going with your list!

Forest school sounds fab Cag! Good luck with lessons/tidying.

Glad the system is working for you Badger and good you are taking it steady in small chunks! Tis the best way!

It's satisfying to get through the washing pile isn't it Fencing?

G'night to all and apologies for rant!

Disclaimer: hwk thing wouldn't be too bad in itself but to add context we have had 9 wks of holiday recently where dd procrastinated, faffed about and stressed herself (and us) out by failing to get down to revision. It just seems like such an uphill battle.

Sorry - back to Flying tomorrow I promise!

I'm jumping in here, really need the motivation and support! I have 4 kids (including twin toddlers and one with SN) and a chronic health condition which decided to show its face just as we were buying a huge Victorian house which is in ruins. We've been in the new house 7 weeks. I have at least 60 years worth of grime to clean, everywhere is filthy, I'm still living out of boxes and at times I'm so poorly I can't even manage the basics. Wish me luck .
Today I was having a good day so my tada list (have I got that right?) includes:

Pulled out the sofas, hoovered and mopped behind.
Hoovered and mopped rest of room, shake and vac'd rugs.
Washed and dried a load of laundry.
Cleaned kitchen, dishwasher on twice.
Day one of babysteps, I am now the proud owner of a shiny sink!
Bathroom declutter and both zone 3 missions!

Trying to get as much done as possible as I am off to see my consultant tomorrow, and she will be starting me on some new medication which I have been warned has horrible side effects initially, but in the long term could give me back my quality of life. So the next few weeks/months could be rough. All the more reason to get a good system in place.aaaaand that was a long post, sorry!

Oh well I'm going to try and sleep after an incredibly unproductive evening!

Tomorrow I need to get up early, continue sprucing up the living room (with DH's help as he's off), do a quiz thing for my old job (to do with my 'legacy' event :o), teach a couple of different people. Thankfully DH will be able to pick DD up from Brownies (she gets a lift there with a friend).

Links for Wednesday 14th September: Here is the Launch Pad with al the basic information.

Baby step number fourteen: learn how to effectively use your calendar

We are in Zone 3, The Bathroom and one Other Room Spend 15 minutes decluttering here. If you have finished decluttering here is the detailed cleaning list

There are always two missions in Zone 3:
In the bathroom, check through all your medicines for any that are out of date and chuck out any empty packets
The ''Other Room' this month is actually all the places round the house we 'stash and dash'. Today, spend five minutes putting things back in their proper homes

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 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

Morning eveyrone!

Thanks for links Grey have a good day!

A warm welcome to PaulineFowlersGrowler (great nn btw! )
Gosh, it sounds as though you have a huge amount on your plate. So sorry to hear about your health condition and hope the consultant can offer you some good support today. I only have one dd but I can really sympathise with the large crumbling house (every day a new bit of plaster drops off)! Good luck with everything and hope the system works well for you

Have, I must be channelling Zoo because I have already been up 5 hrs and it is only 9.30am here! No excuses for not getting stuck in to some intense Flying (groan).

Have a good day fledglings!

Sorry, don't know where that stray 'have' came from!

Forgot to say welcome to the newbies :) it's a friendly bunch we've got here.

Pauline sympathies re the illness. I have CFS, fibromyalgia and POTS so totally relate to not managing the basics!

Managed a spruce up this morning and my lesson went really well. Just dashing around before my 7.30 pupil arrives, but I am super tired and achy - nearly dozed off on the sofa earlier which I really shouldn't do in the day. Haven't got anything else done either.

Hi all,helloPauline
So spent yesterday with DP,his mums still in hospital.they suspect advance cancer, won't be sure til all tests are into say he distraught an understatement as they very close.keeping fingers,legs,eyes crossed n hoping for miracle....
On fly front I did load washing at 5am
Wash kitchen floor and surface cat sleeps on(to find lil sod on it again hour later)
Lay sofa try not scratch eczema which is truly awful,whilst try keep cool
I do not like humidity and am now ready fir some autumnal weather please?!

Oh no sorry zoo :(

Evening,

TooStressy bless your dd for trying on Mummy's mascara

You've been busy again Salutary Will have to take away electronics or something until dd finishes her hwk perhaps?

Sorry to hear MIL is not well Zoo. I guess you can do is be there for dh

Waves to everyone else. So many people on here now

My ta das today

made beds
washed dishes
cleaned hob
cleaned microwave
cleaned fridge
bleached kitchen sink
zoflora'd kitchen worktops
mopped kitchen floor
general tidy up
made tea
washed dishes
wiped kitchen

Bathrooms cleaning tomorrow.

We are in the part of the country that had all the torrential rain instead of the lucky sods who had the sun although today was better than yesterday. Night time temps have dropped down noticably here too. I think thats our summer finished to be honest.

Thanks everyone for your kind words of encouragement, I don't feel like I've achieved much today, my head was all over the place after the hospital but when I jot it down, I haven't done too bad. Need to learn to stop being so hard of myself!

caglio sorry to hear you are a fellow spoonie. I have Fibromyalgia and was recently diagnosed with severe ulcerative colitis. Is flylady working for you?

ta da list
3 loads of washing done
Shampoo'd the rugs (potty training twins, not fun!) and left them in the sun to dry.
Changed all bed linen.
Decluttered a box of toiletries that hadn't been unpacked from the move.
Day 2 flylady babysteps, shined my sink before bed too.....
And all my usual daily crap

I never knew you can zoflora the work surfaces!!! I love zoflora, I thought it's only for the floors!
I wasn't at home yesterday, so this morning woke up a bit earlier. :)

Morning all, I will do links in a sec, I just wanted to catch up on some personals....

Biscuit - so glad you are finding the system helpful. You will find that a lot of us on the thread struggle with an 'all or nothing' approach. Limiting ourselves to just 15 minutes can be really hard! Ultimately though, we all agree that any flying done is progress and you need to adapt the system to fit in with your home and life

< welcoming waves to Furble and Pauline > lots of newbies this month, do jump in

Fromwest toeast - absolutely make flylady work for you, scrap bits that just don't work, add in your own systems - we all do!

Zoo - so sorry to hear about your MIL and your poor DH. Nothing on earth can prepare you for losing someone so close who is such a big presence in your life. Thinking of you all

8 - I loathe zoflora!! So do my cats... the smell really offends them and they start peeing all over the places where the zoflora has been used

Cag - I'm impressed that ^The Interpretation of Dreams* was the first psychology book that you read. I finally finished it yesterday and, whilst a lot of the concepts and theory is very familiar to me already, there was a lot that I just really struggled with understanding. Freud was by background a scientist and it come across very much so in his technical writing.
I have now moved onto reading his Three Essays on Sexuality which so far, is more accessible in its style of writing.

< Big feathery wing flaps to everyone else in the nest >

I will admit that I am being a really bad thread leader this time round - I am barely doing any flying at all! I literally have so much reading to do for my Masters which starts in less than a month, its the only thing I have time for when DS is at nursery.

Links for Thursday 15th September: Here is the Launch Pad with al the basic information.

Baby step number fifteen: add making your bed to your morning routine

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.

We are in Zone 3, The Bathroom and one Other Room Spend 15 minutes decluttering here. If you have finished decluttering here is the detailed cleaning list

There are always two missions in Zone 3:
In the bathroom, throughly scrub and shine your sink and any counter tops
The ''Other Room' this month is actually all the places round the house we 'stash and dash'. Spend another 5minutes finding more things to chuck/recycle

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

I'm a relatively new Zoflora convert but i've already began to use it nearly everywhere. I love the strong fresh fragrances. Much nicer than Dettol or bleach smell. Its pretty much evicted Dettol from my cleaning cupboard. My cleaning cupboard now mainly consists of Zoflora, Domestos, Cif, furniture polish, vinegar, caustic soda, and oven cleaner.

Good morning all! [snaffles one of Zoo's oatmeal and banana muffins]

Zoo I am so very sorry to hear about your dp's mother

Congrats on a great start Pauline!

Well done with the lessons Cag!

I think the cold weather is coming over here tomorrow Celeste but sorry you had it early!

One last day of scorchio here today (sorry!!) although it was so hot and humid yesterday afternoon that I gave up doing things and just sat in the garden!

Passes soothing embrocation to Zoo to calm eczema (which must be horrid to have to endure in this weather)

Waves to Grey, Toostressy FromWesttoEast Fencingwire and to everyone else!

Worked from 8.30am - 2.30pm yesterday (dh sending stuff through on his travels) and then didn't do a lot (too hot!) so made up for it early this morning ...

DD and I had a lovely evening watching GBBO though! As usual, she is a different child when dh is away!

Ta da:
animals
morning routine inc: thorough shine of sink, fill dw, fill wms, hung up wet washing, dining room table hot spots, s&s
clean t-towel, oven gloves and kitchen towel in kitchen
cleaned kitchen bin
cleaned kitchen surfaces
carried a load of things upstairs and carried a load of things downstairs
made dd packed lunch
cleaned stove top
cleaned downstairs loo and put in fresh towel and more loo rolls
general tidy up of ground floor

To do:
sort linen for bed change upstairs
second attempt at clearing bed which has become dump zone
make sultana bake
finalise menu for Sat
quick supermarket run
make ice cream
thorough tidy/chuck of play room/tv room
find and make up cardboard boxes for file storage
order healthy breakfast cereal
bit of ironing
investigate new laundry
clear home office desk

Have a good day everyone!

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Thanks for links Grey and you are being a great thread leader btw

Good luck with all the reading!