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)!

We are not religious so no church here just chocolate and lamb! DC are aware of the reason we have Easter of course.

We will be doing an egg hunt later around the house as it is wet and horrible here.

To Do

First wash
First wash dry
Second wash
Second wash dry
All washing away
Beds stripped
Beds remade
Bathroom floor mopped
Bathroom cleaned
Bins emptied

Happy Easter all!

Nice day here so far waiting for it all to go wrong. Still at my parents so got lie in then took DCs to park to let my mum get on with cooking (I am not a horrible daughter, she wanted that as much easier to cook in a quiet house without children 'helping' ). I have managed a run which I actually enjoyed as revisited my childhood haunts. Just eaten lunch and DD1 wants to do another Easter egg hunt. Not entirely sure what they will hunt for as we did one earlier this morning so will have to figure that out in a bit! Back to school Tuesday so will need to get with the programme again then.

We will have to leave early tomorrow morning so...

To do:-
Laundry
More laundry
Tidy up stuff after lunch
Pack our things
Check grocery order

Mine are back wed,except dd2 who back Thurs.
Egg hunt incl a meltdown over clues from ds.got there in the end.sunshine n showers here so was indoors with clues (put kids out in garden 5mins whilst set it up)they had great time and just scoff some chocolate

Happy easter to all xx

Lovely day here

Ta das
Daily routine and swish and swipe bathroom
Exercise dvd

Need to get some ironing done before the end of the day but we are just watching Hop after a busy day at the in laws. I've not eaten much chocolate yet but will probably start on one of my eggs after the children are asleep!

Tadas
Living room floor cleared
Table clear and cleaned
Wash up
2loads washing,dry n put away
Zoolets tea made

Getting tired now

Had a lovely day here, eaten lots of lovely food especially chocolate and had a relaxing day at home.

Have washed up from tea, need to put a few things in the dishwasher too. Have also prepped the links for next week (I like to just block and copy late at night and not try to get my brain in gear!)

Everyone else in bed (DD up since shortly after 6.00am as she was excited and has lost another tooth just to add to the day) so enjoying the peace and quiet downstairs and having a chilled glass of white.

See everyone tomorrow!

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

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Baby-step no 17 - set a bed time and stick to it

We are in Zone 4 this week: the master bedroom, bathroom and wardrobe

Spend 15 mins decluttering in Zone 4.

When you have finished decluttering, the detailed cleaning list (if you are at that stage) for Zone 4 is here

Mission for Monday declutter underneath the bed

The daily focus for Monday is: weekly home blessing hour

The monthly habit for April is making your bed

daily reminders

and I'm up with ds again for second time tonight

afresh

afresh bad night here too. Da up at 11, 1 - 2.30 and 5...Zzzzzzzzzzzz

Hope you got some more sleep!

Morning zoo!

Morning all (except it isn't yet). I've had an attack of insomnia and also "slept" awkwardly so my neck hurts. I've got loads to do and family coming over so the timing is rubbish.

Sending and to my fellow bad sleepers.

To do
Make cake
Food shop
General tidy
Get food ready
More sleep?

Oh dear, sorry you all had bad nights too!

foxes you win this time, ds was up 12-1230 and 345-430, now up for day at 645

Zombie mummy today 😴

Hi all! Bad night here too, I always get a weird pain in the roof of my mouth at night when I get a cold. So was awake a long time until it passed.

Just another 'meh' day today as DH working (as indeed he did yesterday - turns out co-op opens on Easter Sundays now).

It was really lovely staying with my parents and turned out while we were away DH (who stayed home because of work - 7 days in a row) cleared a load of stuff from the attic. It's nearly empty! Yesterday I also managed to fill a big filing box with stuff to recycle.

afresh sounds like our babies are quite similar for night wakings which at least is a bit reassuring! My friend has a baby the same age who sleeps through the night every night without fail. Humph.

Anyway dh kindly got up again with dd and the baby and only brought the baby back for a feed at 9am so I've caught up on sleep now and just lying in bed with coffee while ds naps.

Not sure what to do today - looks quite damp outside. What is everyone up to I need inspiration!

To do
Bedroom declutter
Under the bed tidy
Daily routine
Ironing
Exercise DVD (aiming for 30 minutes today!)

See dd1,was nice catching up.we pop lidl that's quite a walk away,got few bits.had lunch and a second birthday cake for dd2.....

Tadas
3rd load wash just on final spin,rest dry n fold/put away
Help dd2 find homes all birthday Gubbins

To do wash living room floor
Clean liv room windows
Polish in living room
These are all dependant on zoolets but mainly furry boy scoutcat either sit quiet or finding somewhere else to play!!

I should add dd1 drives,hence trip to lidl!

Ta das
Bit of ironing
30 mins exercise dvd
Daily routine

Got to do the decluttering stuff now... Unfortunately after the exercise dvd my legs seem to have stopped moving!

zoo I like Lidl but we don't have one close by

There are 2 in my town, both at opposite ends with me in middle, approx 1+hr walk from either
We have aldi,asda George (small one, mainly clothes)around 20 mins away on foot. Waitrose and heron foods 15 mins away.Morrison's40mins on foot(big store)and co op 5 mins, so I not hard done by for choice!!

Hello all, we are back from my parents and I feel the familiar feelings of relief that the visit is over and sadness that the DC miss then, I miss them but just find seeing them so stressful as feel under the microscope constantly .

Anyway, have done a tiny bit of unpacking and just sorting the laundry now. Also cleared out a cupboard for Easter eggs as having them in plain sight of DDs was not going well! DDs having movie night with popcorn for treat as last day of holidays - back to school tomorrow.

Cannot offer any crisps for naughty corner, just a shed load of chocolate I'm afraid.

To do:-
Bedtime
Laundry
Arrange bags and cases out of the way
Label the mountain of smiggle stuff DD1 has acquired for school tomorrow

Forgot, can bring popcorn to naughty corner

I know what you mean Stressy I often felt super stressed and 'on my guard' when staying with my parents. It's better lately as the Caglets are able to be quieter (upper floor flat + wood floors + grumpy neighbour below...) and/or go to the park on their own for a bit (the apartment block has its own little playground). Plus TBH my parents don't really 'get' kids - I was far from typical (quiet, overly passive, bookish Aspie) and they think normal kid behaviour is naughty really! But as I said it has got better as they've got older, they are able to have more conversations with them, and actually this last visit was the best ever. Sorry I have no idea if what I just said is helpful or not! But I do get what you mean about family 'relaxing' visits often being far from it. Sigh.

Just spent an age on a supermarket shop. Thankfully DH had helped me with a list earlier but I've just been sitting in front of the website like this (the latter being pukey not jealous). Done now.

Should probably do dinner but the Caglets are still happily playing outside and meh. CBA!

Broadchurch tonight though!!!