Fledglings are raucous in August - the Flylady thread

[TooStressyForMyOwnGood]

Thanks to paxillin for our August thread title .

Hello all and welcome to the August Flylady thread. We are a friendly bunch who try to roughly follow the Flylady system. How strictly you follow it is of course up to you! Every day the thread leader posts information about which zone of the house we are in and the missions for the week.

Newbies are always welcome. All information is available on the Flylady website www.flylady.net

On the website there is information for beginners. You can also sign up to the Flylady emails but we would advise caution as there are hundreds of them.

We post our achievements (ta das) and our to do lists and any other general chatter about life / flying.

There is enough information on this thread to start getting on with things but you can also trawl through the (confusing at times) website:-

Information on getting started: www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/

The launch pad is also a good starting place:www.flylady.net/c/lp.php

Fly stands for Finally Loving Yourself. The general idea is that short bursts of tidying / organisation are more achievable than marathon efforts. Flylady advises 15 minute bursts is effort but you can tweak this to fit your own circumstances.

I'm on holiday this week with intermittent internet connection so will not be on much but will keep an eye on the thread and hopefully everyone else will feel free to jump in!

With it being summer holidays it may be pretty quiet on here but missions etc will be here for those who want them.

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Here is the daily summary for Saturday (also available on the Flylady website at flight plan which should update automatically each day).

Baby-step no 18 (apologies, missed this yesterday) - read Flylady’s 11 commandments

Baby-step no 19 - read the testimonials

It's the weekend so no missions or decluttering needed. However, if you want to...

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

daily focus

missions for the week

Flykids mission

August's habit is laundry

Happy flying everyone.
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stressy are we going to have to have some sort of online disagreement so no one tries to claim we are sock puppets?

tired and my sense of humour is warped

Actually, I've thought of something. I do disagree with you about sewing / craft type stuff - can't stand doing it and only sew if I absolutely have to!

Toostressy Thank you for the flowers
Ta da
All laundry done
Beds all made up with fresh bedding
Closet finished (autumn,winter stuff) to the front.
Pantry and larder inventory done
Utility and boot room cleaned
Dishwasher on
Kids all bathed and in bed
Pets fed
To do
Take youngest dd to a my little pony roadshow for the day
Now I'm sat with a cup of rooibos and my kindle before bed.

Morning all

Yet again ds slept through but dd had a nightmare. WHY!

Hi everyone sorry haven't caught up with the thread quite properly , dd has been poorly but is better today and has gone out with the grandparents. I'm just enjoying a coffee while ds naps. he slept through last night first night ever!!! Probably a fluke but I'll take it! Afresh it's always the way isn't it? I actually woke up at 4am worried about DS, checked on him and then still couldn't sleep properly after that. Grr!

Oh and ds knocked his tooth in the bath last night

Flying wise I did manage to do the bed sheets last night but my ironing got cut short by the ds tooth drama!

Happy weekend everyone!

Morning (just) all. Oh that is annoying re sleep Afresh. foxes, oh dear re. the tooth. Did he hit it badly?

Ta da:-
Appointment done for the girls this morning
Haircuts booked for next week ready for back to school
Some laundry

To do:-
More laundry
We are risking going out for a family meal later
Get cases put away as have finally unpacked most of the stuff and can get back to decluttering

Very annoying stressy!

foxes is ds's tooth okay? Funnily enough my ds used the bath taps to pull up standing last night and nearly gave me a heart attack as I feared he would fall and bang himself!

Ta Da

Two boxes unpacked
Paint etc shoved in the cellar
Dry washing sorted
Dryer on
Washer on

toostressy we think he has bent the tooth back a bit but not too sure as his teeth weren't perfectly straight before so hard to tell. Lots of blood and crying but he seems ok today and is eating and shouting as usual so can't be in any pain.

Afresh I wasn't there as dh was doing bathtime but I think that's what happened he just suddenly stood up and slipped hitting face on tap usually dd is up the tap end for this very reason but think she'd shuffled round to get to a toy or something and DS had seen the space and got excited! Dh said it happened in the blink of an eye which I can well believe as ds is extremely fast!!

foxes unfortunately our taps are in the middle of the bath so cannot use our dd to block them off! I will say keep an eye on the tooth, one of my older DC took a bad bang to a tooth, it went grey and fell out ....

Might be worth getting a dentist to look at it next week anyway, just to keep an eye on it if nothing else (I should say that teeth are not my area though!).

Xpost with Afresh there.

Meant to get on here yesterday but got sidetracked. Got the link for your blog cag and will look at it tonight. Thanks. I'm still mulling over what to focus mine on. I'm not sharing it with family or ex. I'm "incognito" on it and prefer to remain that way.

Reorganised a couple kitchen cupboards today, plus did all the laundry and sheets. I'll have to give the washing machine a rest now.

foxes dd1 smack hers at 4 it went grey.dentist says just where bloods cut off and will fall out(it did).new one grew in later but was gsppy for quite a while as it wasnt tooths time to come out!

Ive had super productive day to avoid missing my zoolets

Tadas
4loads washing
Ds room
Repair wardrobe(as best as can) and move shelves down so will now be able hang school shirts on rail(sniffs sadly.i used just fold his polo shirts and pop in a drawer )
Clear oyt under the midi bed of doom
This included wash a 50ltr crate my little bloody pony that had been jnvolved what looked like leaky bkackcurrant carton.grrr.return playmobil sets to correct boxes etc time consuming
Tidy table his tv lives on and xbix under
futile attempt make hshelvingsive-- book collection look tidier on limited shelving
Glue hooks for dressing gown and washing(carrier bag to be added once dry) on back of door
Clean windowd
POlish
Wash floor

Girls room
Get under dd2 bed(involves slid under on belky snake styly)and removing 2 chuffilaundrrier bags laundry.aaaaaaargh.
Tudy another over stuffed bookcase
Clear floor putting things away
Clean windows
Polish
Wash floor

My room
Clean under bed(so low means removing mattres)
Clear top drawers
Sort thru extensive box nail varnishes standing all back up(after dd2 borrows and lobs back in willy nilly) and put drop color on lids newer ones so can See which is which without having take all out.all base.top ciat.ridge filler.french manicure stuff in smaller box in it along nail jewels.glue.tweezers.nail art brushes(sounds fancier than it is)
Sort blanket bix and clear n tidy top
Locate end bed clear n tidy as went
Polish
Wash floor

I have 2 binbags crap and 2 carrier bags paper/card recylinng plus one carrier for chazza

In between amusing/feed kittens.
My snacks(cba cook just for me)
Usual gubbins of clean littertray.basic tidy up blah de blah

zoo that exactly same as what happened here with the tooth! Was atleast 18 months with no tooth!

Forgot to add cleared out all drawers discarding too small stuff then folded and refilled...

I think was similar time to that afresh i also remember next one out was wobbly and biting chicken nugget did the job(although best toith removal award here goes to ds who hates his teeth falling out and wont jiggle or wiggle wobblers cling to them as long as poss.he SNEEZE on out!!we were all cracking up with laughter as he scrambke round floor crying me tooth.me tooth😂😂😂😂😂😂

Ps he did find it.not heloed by dd2 tellibg him triumphantly thats why uts important to put hands over nose when sneeze!

Wow definite for that list zoo .

Well we had (amazingly) another lovely meal out but unfortunately left DD2's bag in the restaurant. There were only a few pennies in it but it means one of us trekking back in tomorrow (approx 30 mins drive if not more) to pick it up tomorrow . Why I am so disorganised ?

Imo children stressy somehow they mess with your brain and it is never the same.

Being trying to get everything that needs to go on the shelves on the shelves. It won't fucking fit and we have clearly decluttered a smidge too much. I need to see what we can do about it because there is just no where else for the stuff to go.

Kids def mess with your brain.pre kid i was on the ball.as teen i was up at 6 and had time read papers before collecting my scatterbained friend from hers at 6.i remember feeding her polos as we dash to school(she was always losing stuff.a classic entry to her house was her run round eat bowl porridge shouting wheres me keys)id tell her what was going on in the world (befire breakfast telly was big).these days its me shouting wheres me keys.....

1. We left hers at 8.i was fast.byt not thst fast

Thanks zoo and Einstein. I was pretty disorganised before I had kids to be fair and in some ways I have improved since having them as have had no choice. However, I really do agree that kids mess with your brain! A work colleague with grown up children was talking about this actually and said that when you are running around looking after your children (or adults) there is just so much going on in your head that little things often get forgotten.

Afresh, inspired by another thread I have been looking at Clutterbug on YouTube and there are some amazing organisation station videos on there!

ofazoo, the My Little Pony roadshow sounds amazing. I my DDs would love that .

Ginger and Cag, I love reading blogs . I find them quite inspiring and they let me be legitimately nosy .

foxes, hope your DS is still ok.

Big wing flaps to all.

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Here is the daily summary for Sunday (also available on the Flylady website at flight plan which should update automatically each day).

Baby-step no 20 - do a full load of laundry, wash, dry, put away

It's the weekend so no missions or decluttering needed. However, if you want to...

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

daily focus

missions for the week

Flykids mission

August's habit is laundry

Happy flying everyone.
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