Fledglings cocoon, we're Flying in June ... .

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Welcome to the June 2017 fledgling Fly thread!

Feel free to park your mops and buckets here from the 1st of the month!

This is where we attempt to declutter our homes and follow the 30-step wisdom of Flylady (minus cutesy barftastic language and a surfeit of e-mails) with lots of chat and support and mutual motivation (and of course) along the way.

More info available here, here and here.

As usual we will be following a three-pronged approach - and don't worry - we are all at different stages. (Some of us are still stuck at the decluttering stage after quite a few years ):

1 - repeat or start baby steps (again!)

2 - repeat baby steps + do 15 mins a day decluttering in the current zone

or

3 - reinforce babysteps and/or do daily missions

And those of you who have decluttered and are really enthusiastic can throw some detailed cleaning in to the mix as well!

The idea is that we focus on short, ring-fenced, daily bursts of activity (steps and routines) that will help our homes run (more or less!) on "automatic pilot" allowing us to do far more interesting things instead!

This is a very long-running thread so we may appear cliquey but we really aren't! All newcomers, long-termers, lurkers and intermittent returnees welcome!

Helpful pointers: No perfectionism allowed! If it took a while to create the current C.H.A.O.S. (can't have anyone over syndrome) in your home, then it will probably take a while to reverse the situation (you can't clean clutter!). Small steps are the key! And you are never behind: just jump in where you are at!

Any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Good luck!

If i drink any more water i am going to turn into a fish!
But knowing my luck my ability to sleep would be just as shit.

I'm rubbish at remembering to drink water! Must try to make more effort! I didn't get much done yesterday, just a general tidy round and a load of washing. It'll probably be the same today but there's been lots of progress made this week, so as long as the house doesn't get any worse, weekends will hopefully just be family time.

I'm going to do the landing this week as the extra room, I battled on with the dining room last time, but it's starting to resemble a dining room again now so I'll leave it until we hit that zone again.

Do any of you actually use a 'control journal'? I have been using an 16 pad that I carry everywhere with me now. I write my daily lists in it, shopping lists, if I've made any appointments but I don't have my diary with me, or if one of the mums want to arrange a playdate. Gift ideas on planning days etc, my memory is horrendous since having dd2 - the insomniac Velcro baby, so it helps to write everything down. I just have to flick through the pages if I forget something. Wondered how you try to manage things?

I'm going to look at the morning and evening routines again to see if I can tweek my routines to make them work better.

Hope everyone has a fabulous Sunday!!

Hi all, sorry have been AWOL. Can't post on my mobile and sometimes can't see any threads at all . Looking at a thread in site stuff it seems others are struggling too.

Don't get onto the laptop much so just logged on quickly to post this then will be back once mobile site running properly again.

Just woken up
I have a squared note book. It lists everything i need to do down the sides, days across the top. If I plan to do something I put a dot in the box for the task on the day I plan to do it. When it is done I put a cross over the dot. New things get added at the bottom of the list (often several pages later. It seems to be working ok ish for me. tbh nothing works when life gets as batshit crazy as it did last week As it is a new system i am interested to see how it works going forwards. My memory is also shit.

stressy - boo hiss for broken mobile apps

SC hope you are having a good few days away from MN

ta da
catch up on sleep
ds' uniform in the washing machine

to do
final proofing
Print test
Publish document

Almost there... should be done before 10pm tonight. Shockingly I am still shattered and feel like I could just curl up and sleep through until tomo. Thank goodness ds is so self sufficient these days must remember to check he has actually eaten

Testing

Woo hoo, will post properly later tonight

Mobile site not working for me either, so apart from the odd laptop visit I'm just lurking!

Nowt done today, DSD has joined us this evening for takeaway and anime DVDs :o she's babysitting DS in the morning because DD has her autism assessment.

Evening all (or very early morning, just about to do the links for Monday).

I have never done a control journal yet Rosabella .

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 12 - delete the digital clutter of Flylady emails from your inbox

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 Monday clean the lower reaches of the toilet and discard items from the stash and dash/BORC in the other room!

The daily focus for Monday is: weekly home blessing hour

The monthly habit for June is drinking water

daily reminders

Morning all, hope everyone is well! Thanks for the links Cotswold I think I'll try and declutter the office / spare room this week as the desk in there is slowly disappearing under paperwork.

Ds slept from 7pm until 615 last night with just on wake up for a feed at 11.30pm! Feeling pretty happy with that tbh! He fell back to sleep at 6.15 as well so I crept downstairs thinking I'd have a coffee in peace as dd still asleep too but came back upstairs to find him wide awake! Typical!

Testing ....

Thank fuck for that!

Mobile site not working here either

I've just managed to post through desktop site on my mobile, hopefully these issues get fixed today!

Morning everyone! Am so far behind now, it's ridiculous! Has made me realise how much the little routines were really helping!

DDs birthday was yesterday, had a great time. House was a bombsite by the time everyone left

Have basically had over 2 weeks of not getting anything done. Away on holiday one week then last week was spent decorating and preparing for DDs birthday. I need to get back on the wagon and get things under control!

Washing and ironing pile is the biggest it's been for years, so the main task is getting on top of that. Going to need a lot of cups of tea today!

Oh and new carpet has been done and looks really good, such a transformation!

Ta da
lunchbox made,
shirt ironed,
clothes found,
ds' homework sorted
Ds' breakfast sorted
Temporarily fix glasses - selotape job will need a trip to opticians later.
Ds out the door

to do
airport run to drop off the stressing parents we might have fallen out this morning
all the things
ring opticians
mount washmore
mount ironmore
sort out the keys that were cut last week but don't open the door...

Morning all

Work day today
Got to work early and decided to clean the work fridge
I wish I hadn't it was grim

Have a lovely day everyone

Glad you've had a restful night foxes

Hi blue! good luck with the catch up today, chip away at it a bit at a time, you'll be back on top in no time!

ta da
beds stripped
wash done
crisis and full 6 year old meltdown averted by ordering gorilla glue for ds's trophy that he won yesterday that he accidentally dropped on the floor this morning and broke
kids are at school
picked up parcel from post office and cards bought for birthday party this afternoon

to do
finish my peaceful coffee while dd2 naps (a moment of bliss!!)
tidy up from the mad weekend
the home bleurgh
another wash
15 mins ironing
15 mins putting clothes away

Unfortunately ime this is a common problem with trophies for kids and keeping a stock of the glue in the backhand will save your sanity in the future.

Also ta da
sink full of soaking dishes that have been rescued from various locations (incl loft nope no idea why that was thought to be a good place either) so that they can go in the dish washer later
cooker unpluged
old kettle thrown out
charity shop box filling up nicely
laundry pile rescued and 1st load on
ds' window opened
clean washing folded ready for more clean washing....
Tools returned to garage
Airport drop off run done.

Time for a coffee I think before I go buy a slow cooker...

Ta das
Daily routine
Food shopping
Cleaned the base of the toilet
Cleaned bathroom windowsill and decluttered
Decluttered office desk (although still have a great big pile for dh to sort and a pile of photographs I'm meant to be sorting!)

To do
Sort photographs!

Achieved nothing today bar surviving. Was up at 3.45 so needed a big nap. Assessment went ok but need further time so no answer yet, she also said DD needs to see an Ed Psych about possible learning difficulties as whether or not she has autism, she has cognitive problems too :(

Hello all. I think I can post again . Had a busy few days and just sitting now with a coffee while DDs watch a programme.

Ta da:-
DD1 homework
DD2 parents evening at preschool - they were really helpful and said that she was fine there but were happy to help with anything the parenting class recommends. She kicked off a bit while we were there and tbh it was good for them to see it.
Had a lovely (rare for after school!) time dancing around the kitchen with DDs after school as I we tidied up .
Went for run earlier
Laundry under control

To do:-
Bath and bedtime
Decluttering of some paperwork
If time look at school uniform for DD2

Have been really trying to do an hour's decluttering every day by going to bed an hour later. Not sure what Flylady would say about that but actually I have been picking stuff I can declutter easily in front of the telly and have quite enjoyed the peace and quiet . Can't see an obvious difference yet but am so sick of the clutter I need to try.

Big wing flaps to all .

Sorry Cag, xpost.

Testing also having problems with mobile site.
Sorry not been on much had really rubbish few weeks. My DD & DS both been ill & just been diagnosed with whooping cough! Causes this horrible breathlessness like asthma.

To dos
Catch up with washing
Find out where I should be on the routine s

Xxxx

Hope your DC better soon mumontherun

Toostressy well done on the decluttering! I guess if you're doing it in front of TV and no children around it is fairly relaxing at least!

Cag that all sounds exhausting hope you're okay

Imo the fat fairy can shove her early night nonsense where the sun don't shine. If 1 hour helps you get progress and doesn't tire you too much it is worth it in the long run

Cag sounds like an exhausting day.

Mum whooping cough is miserable hope the littlies get improve soon.