Ease towards Easter with the Fledglings and the Flylady April thread!

[CotswoldStrife]

Welcome to the April Flylady thread. We will be posting links every day to the Flylady method of maintaining your home and all posters, lurkers, newbies and returners are welcome - there will be a lot bit of general chat too. Post your ta-da successes and inspire others (or join some of us in the naughty corner on a less-than-stellar day, we all have them!) and bask in the support of the fledglings as we swing into Spring and ease towards Easter (avoiding the dreaded pointy stick of motivation)!

Hope littles one ok afresh

We had a lovely weekend away and even managed to sort the house a bit when we got back yesterday so not too bad this morning! Had lovely cuddles with tiny nephew

To dos
Bit of exercise dvd
Daily routine
Bathroom / spare room mission
Dust furniture

That's the main stuff . I've caught the children's cold so we'll see how I get on!

Both have colds. Dd extremely grumpy. Ds sounding v chesty and off his milk. Usual milk intake 30oz+ , yesterday only took 20oz.

It's been a rotten weekend here-one if our lovely guinea pigs died. It wasn't at all unexpected since she'd had health problems but it was still very sad. Our boiler has also broken so this morning's task is to get hold of a plumber. I'm really hoping it's a minor fix rather than anything expensive.

To dos
Bury gp in the garden
Sort out plumber
General tidy
30 min garden tidy up
Food shop
Do the flylady mission

Purple . Trying to think of what I can write that doesn't sound rubbish so just... sorry to hear that and thinking of you and your other GPs.

Ta da:-
Laundry on and one load out already
DC eating breakfast
Bag out for charity collection... but will it get picked up?!

To do:-
Morning routine a
Bit of decluttering if poss
Holiday homework. Yawn.
Take DDs out somewhere later to burn off some energy.
Sort out present and card for birthday party tomorrow
Sort out a work thing... on my day off .

Random 'a' there after morning routine . I don't have various different lettered morning routines. Although that has given me an idea!

Thanks toostressy. It's really sad but in a way it was the nicest way that it could have happened. She was badically fine until last night, then looked very wobbly (probably another stroke) and found a huge pile of straw to lie down on, just lay on her side and didn't wake up. Much better than us having to make a horrible decision or her suffering a long and drawn out affair. Dh is in the garden now and I think it will be better once that's done.

Morning all. Hoping the weather holds out for a good drying day today, has already gone a bit dull but some bedding is already in the washing machine. Also up, washed, dressed and breakfasted by 9.00am which is good for me on the first day of a holiday

Purple so sorry to hear about the GP. Hope you are all doing OK and that the boiler is a cheap fix. I'm passing coffee to freshstart, get a nap if you all can today and take zoo with you forget the housework and grab sleep while you can you two foxes how generous of you children to share the germs but it's hard to avoid tbh - when they are small they generally cover you in their snot, for years DD seemed to use our clothing rather than a tissue Bah to sorting work out on your day off stressy

Well done on up and ready before 9 Cotswold!

Ta da:-
Laundry - some on washing line and the nearly dry stuff brought in as ominous dark clouds.
Bit more tidying in DD1's room
At park with DDs

Oh no, so sorry about piggy :(

Lots of laundry sorted today so will put the rest away later. DH says we are going to have a massive declutter tomorrow, his last day off before 7 days straight - yep even Easter Sunday! Good thing we aren't religious so we don't celebrate other than chocolate - Caglets and I will be staying at mum's for a few days anyway

Just had my booking in appt with midwife, all good, will be consultant led for various reasons and I will be getting growth scans as well because DC2 was so huge.

Good to hear you've finally had the booking in appt Cag, any news on the scan yet?

Thanks Cotswold it's on Saturday! We were going to stay at mum's over Easter itself but will have to come back early, my parents are going to come with me so mum can attend the scan (DH is working) she's super excited! I just hope everything is ok, I don't think I'll start relaxing until we've had the scan TBH and maybe then it will actually sink in

My MN is being very slow so just a quick one from me. Sorry about GP purple.

Ta das
Dusted all furniture
Attempted the 27 fling thingy...Nothing to chuck out in bathroom and found two bits of rubbish in spare room. Also old Moses basket...Would a charity shop take this?! Not sure how I'd get it to one with a buggy...
Also found a signed movie poster I won in a competition but I don't want it (it came with some DVDs which I did want!)...No idea how I go about putting it on eBay or anything as I know nothing about movie posters or their value or anything! So not very successful really as I've left it all in the room

Evening everyone.

Cag how exciting about your booking in appt! Purple sorry to hear about the GP .

Did absolutely nothing yesterday as working 8am-8pm!!! Exhausted by the time I got home!

Today hasn't been much better as went to London Town for the day!

But I have managed a couple of tadas:
Hoovered upstairs and downstairs
Put suitcases back in loft well nagged DH to do it
Washed manky dog blanket
Cleaned sink
Made tea for dds

Still to do:
Make supper for me and DH
Send some work emails
Clean loo

Have a good evening everyone!

foxes damn kids never share what you want them to...
afresh lil zoo snotfest today also, but she's not been to o grumpy(yet)
purple sorry to hear of your g.p.sounds like a good end though,I hate having euthanize
cag eeek.how exciting,but on a sat?!
Tadas
Tidy front room,clean windows

Clean church ready fir Easter
Pig out ds bedroom
4loads wash
Teas ready so I must gobefore burn it

Glad you got a date for scan Cag. Hello all, hoping to collapse soon after a quick tidy up. Slightly in naughty corner as not done full before bed routine but it's not a super early start tomorrow so not too worried.

Ta da:-
Nice day with DDs today
Bit more tidying of her room so less in the BRC in our room

Sorted out summer holiday childcare . Just need to write it all on the calendar now. It gets booked up so quickly round here that you need to do it quite far in advance for summer.

To do:-
Collapse even though not done everything. It's late enough .

Hello all
Just finished work so late one for me
Got my tenancy inspection tomorrow so will have a quick blitz in the morning but on top of it all pretty much

Lovely weather again x

Saturday, Cag? We need an instant update, ignore your family but tell us Only kidding, but if you get a chance then let us know how Cagletini is doing.

Hope London wasn't too hot and steamy for you ndo, they'll have to get the posters out soon advising you to have water with you when you travel on the tube!

mermaids arrghh, tenancy inspections! We rented this house for a couple of years before we bought it and some previous tenants had been a nightmare. So we had three monthly inspections the place had never been so clean It did make me realise how superficially I vacuumed though, I used to take a lot more care instead of just running the vaccum around and get loads more dust up

That sounds super-organised with the summer childcare stressy, DD has missed out on a couple of cooking clubs as we dawdled and then they got advertised elsewhere

Well done on the window cleaning zoo, especially on a hot day streaks galore for me

We have sorted through a bit of paper today, some has gone into the shredding pile and some into the recycling (good job it was emptied today so we can fill it up again!). DD has had a restful day after her sleepover the other night, will probably be back to normal tomorrow.

Links next!

The daily summary for Tuesday (also available on the Flylady website at flight plan which should update automatically each day.

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Baby-step no 11 - add an inspiration page to your control journal with your favourite quotes on

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

Spend 15 mins decluttering in Zone 3.

When you have finished decluttering, the detailed cleaning list (if you are at that stage) for Zone 3 is here

Mission for Tuesday shine the bath or shower, if you are in the spare bedroom get the bed company-ready

The daily focus for Tuesday is: planning

The monthly habit for April is making your bed

daily reminders

Morning all!
Washings on.
Cat fed
Bleached lav

Need decide what to do today!

Well yesterday was a bit of a zombie day after the bad night before! Everyone slept all night last night though although ds still chesty and off his milk and dd still wailing at anything (currently the fact she doesn't know which cereal to choose)

vat for afresh I think

Funnily enough zoo I am not feeling the need for tea as much as usual this morning. Had one and not rebrewed. Wish I had a nice glass cold fizzy pop

To do

wash on
dryer on
tea pots
Breakfast pots
Table
Bottle wash
strip bed
Remake bed

Morning all! Dd is off to my mum's later for an egg hunt and a sleepover so it'll just be me and the baby. The baby is pretty clingy though so doubt I'll get much extra done probably just spend my time cuddling him and missing dd!!

To do
Daily routine
Change beds
Clean bath
Photo album

To do

wash on
dryer on
tea pots
Breakfast pots
Table
Bottle wash
strip bed
Remake bed
dryer reloaded
Second wash
Shopping away
recycling empty

Hi ladies, hope you're all good!
Been swept away in a super busy work week, we've been working evenings as well as days and may still need to this week but we'll see how we get on. We do it together though at least so it never seems so bad.

I managed to feed us, keep the kitchen and general house tidiness under control, swish and swipe, and do laundry more days than not, so I'm taking that as a win lol. I even weeded the front path whilst on hold on a phonecall but alas no decluttering or missions got done.