Fledglings flapping and flying in February - the Flylady thread

[TooStressyForMyOwnGood]

Hello all and welcome to the February Flylady thread! Welcome to all current posters and also to any returners plus of course anyone who would like to join. The more the merrier.

We are a friendly group who (sort of) follow the Flylady system in hopes of a more organised home and life. Some of us manage that better than others .

It's my first time running this thread so here we go with links... Please if anything is wrong feel free to correct me. Hopefully it will all go swimmingly this month but I apologise in advance for anything not slick! I'm starting a day early as have work tomorrow and I am slow at this but will try to stay on the old thread until tomorrow. Thanks so much for doing the December and January threads Cotsowold.

We are in zone 5 for the first few days of the month.

Flylady advises decluttering for 15 mins a day. I tend to manage 5 but I know lots of people have great results with 15.

I can't figure out how to post the individual missions (I will get better, I hope!) so as a treat here is the sneak peak for the rest of the week which has all the missions www.flylady.net/c/sp.php#missions

Feb 1st's mission is to clean our vents!!

If you have already decluttered then you could start some detailed cleaning www.flylady.net/d/zones/detailed-cleaning-zone-5/

For a summary of what's going on, go to www.flylady.net/c/lp.php or just follow this thread . Sometimes the Flylady website takes a little while to catch up on a new month.

Newbies, welcome, have a look around the Flylady website - it can sometimes be a bit disorganised. Unless you want to, beware of signing up for her emails - there are hundreds and all the info is on the website anyway. Here is the getting started link [[http://www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/

I'll post the baby step and Wednesday's daily focus next.

See MN useful source of info! Sorry you've had such a rubbish day whatever you want or need most. Hope you have some real life versions!

Funnily enough I've just had tea and cake!

I'm not really a drinker unless I go out. Drinking in the house just knocks me out

Have my roses from Valentine's Day

So yep not doing bad for real life versions!

I really should move all the clean dry washing off the kitchen floor ....

Ta das
Bathroom mats and towels all changed
Decluttered two shelves in DS bedroom.
Put more laundry on

Don't think I'm going to finish my to do list today, I'm starting to get a bit of a Friday feeling...Dh has ordered takeaway and given dd a sandwich for her dinner mean parents!

Might go and have a bath actually. Then I can clean the bathroom while the water is running!

foxes now that is proper multitasking

We had a busy and slightly stressful day of trying to get the big food shop done without DH's help which was made more difficult because I forgot it's half term and town would be extra busy...

Ta da:
Animals fed
2 loads of laundry done
Big food shop done and out away
Kitchen bin put out
Orange bin brought in from kerb
Dinners planned for the next week
Meeting with solicitor
Health visitor visit
Floors swept

I'm now settled back in on the sofa for an evening of baby cuddles and terrible tv
Hope you soon start feeling better afresh

Rosie baby cuddles and rubbish TV is what I do every night too!

Had my bath and cleaned the bathroom, I like to fit jobs in when I have a couple of minutes where I'd otherwise be doing nothing like when the kettle is boiling. Dh thinks I'm a bit mad but it works for me!!

Not finished my to do list but hey it's Friday and I had a good go.

Got to get dd to bed and then try and settle DS who is still very snotty and struggling to feed

Haha sorry Rosie that implied that you watch rubbish TV every night which I'm sure you don't, that's just me!

foxes I don't have baby snuggles asy excuse for rubbish tv!!

Tadas
Fed cats
Scrub surfaces,bleach,rinse and dry
Wipe cupboard fronts
Clean hob
Wipe oven,t.dryer and wash machine fronts
Wash floor
Hit spot dining and coffee tables
Room rescue front room
Wash floor
Tidy hall
Swish and swipe bathroom
Bleach lav
Fed zoolets and get ready go out

Head shopping centre zoolets spend some money they've been saving.lil zoo git my lil pony's, D's Minecraft fir his stop motion set and then went a religious shop in town and dd2 finally spent some her confirmation money on a cute necklace, bookmark and metal "stone" with forgive written on it
Back to house,then walk to cycle shop. New bikes ridden home. Was lovely to thing dads money got the zoolets bikes.in Hus life he cycled til in 70s and arthritic knees stop him,so seemed fitting

Late lunch
Watch DVD
Play couple board games
Zoolets just having tea.a busy day!!

Afresh . Foxes, I agree with Rosie, that is good multi tasking. Rosie, evening in front of telly sounds like a great plan .

Ta da:-
Lunch at friends
Took DDs out on their bikes
Tea eaten
DDs bathed
DH doing home bleugh

Xpost, hello zoo

Evening all have namechanged from annoyinglyhappyperson

Sofas and dining table came today so we actually have somewhere to sit now was getting fed up of eating meals Japanese style on the floor

Hoovered through
1 x load of washing done
2 dishwasher loads done

Can't wait til recycling comes to collect the cardboard on wed I feel like I'm living in a Brazilian shanty town currently

Hi all :) no productivity at all here today but I guess we did family fun day a day early. My oldest friends came up for the afternoon and we played some board games :o including one that's been sitting in my cupboard for months untouched as it looked so complicated!

Fab name mermaids. Cag, sounds like lovely family fun .

We finally finished tidying stuff up and changing sheets etc so I am going to collapse.

Here is the daily summary for Saturday...

All information also available on the Flylady website www.flylady.net. The

flight plan
should update every day.

We are in Zone 3 this week: the bathroom and one other room

No missions or zone work at the weekend (unless you want to).

The monthly habit for February is to declutter for 15 mins a day which is a brilliant habit!

Daily reminders:
reminders

Baby-step no 18 - read Flylady’s 11 commandments

The daily focus for Saturday is: family fun day. Do something fun. I am doing an extra shift at work. Not fun.

Happy flying :)

Thanks for links. Only 10 more days to do, can't believe this was your first month stressy you're smashing it :o

Must try and be productive tomorrow. DD is out for the day with friends, and DS actually just really wants a day watching telly and playing (we don't have the TV on much during the week lately) so DH and I can hopefully tackle the hideous mess that is the bedroom!

My ears hurtttttttttt

I am very aware I've done more moaning than flying this month

Ta Da

Dryer on

Morning all. Thanks Cag!! Afresh .

Ta da:-
I've had breakfast
Dishwasher on as it didn't wash stuff properly last night

To do:-
Morning routine

Aw afresh hugs :( earaches suck. Whinge away goodness knows I do it enough we are here to listen!

Do you have lavender oil? A compress made from a wedge of kitchen roll/cotton wool with hot (previously boiled) water and lavender oil pressed against the ear can be quite comforting.

I haven't got up yet, DH got DD up and packed for a day out with friends and he's taking DS into town for a bit but mostly it's a day in for the three of us.

It's quiet on here! About to start work, will be back on later.

Ta da:-
Some laundry
We have been given some more lego
2 mins decluttering

To do:-
Work

afresh total sympathies. Dd2 has had dreadful probs her ears over the years.bloody nightmare anything in your head hurts

Tadas
Fed cats
Washing on
Swish n swipe bathroom
Bleach lav
Feed zoolets
Take zoolets n bikes out again for couple hours

Feet up,papers and hot chocolate. Lovely!!

Wipe table,hotspot front room

Made lunch ate it and wash up/tidy away

Now to wash floor as D's always ends up his food scattered floor and table,and I did rice for lunch

Hello all, big wing flaps to everyone. Quiet on here but I'm sure everyone is still flying .

Ta da:-
Worked my shift
Picked up costume for world book day for one DD - have bad feeling it will be a bit small but I'm hoping ok for just one day.
Made progress on deciding where we might go on holiday.

I didn't do a full before bed routine but I am not doing one now after 10pm - will just have to get up 10 mins earlier (yeah right). DD1 has her activity tomorrow morning so I need to be up at a reasonable hour.

Here is the daily summary for Sunday...

All information also available on the Flylady website www.flylady.net. The

flight plan
should update every day.

We are in Zone 3 this week: the bathroom and one other room

Spend 15 mins (or what you can manage) decluttering in Zone 3.

No mission as it is the weekend

Daily focus for Sunday is renew your spirit
www.flylady.net/d/daily-focus/daily-focus-sunday/. We are going out for a meal which will be either spirit renewing or spirit crushing dependent on DCs' behaviour!

The monthly habit for February is to declutter for 15 mins a day which is a brilliant habit!

Baby-step no 19 - read the testimonials A nice easy one.

Daily reminders
reminders (radio show times are probably not accurate for UK but can listen to previous shows/podcasts)
(radio show times are probably not accurate for UK but can listen to previous shows/podcasts)

Happy flying!

I'm here! Been busy shopping and making cakes for Dd birthday party tomorrow so only did my daily routine apart from that. Oh and dh Hoovered.

Hope you're feeling better afresh

Hope your DD has a lovely party foxes
!

Thanks toostressy we are busy making more cakes this morning and sorting out other bits of food and balloons etc...well dh is, I've stopped for a coffee! Dd is bouncing off the walls already, pretty sure dh has given her some chocolate for breakfast

Have a lovely party little girl fox!!
foxes see you in the naughty corner later....and bring cake

I have earache and am NOT impressed

Oh no zoo sorry to hear you have it too

I now feel like my ears are blocked and am desperate to ram a cotton bud down there but don't want to make things work

No lavender oil unfortunately

Yesterday's flying was a flop, I was FLOPPING