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.

Thank you everyone you're a lovely lot. I've not really rested that much but I've got a fairly easy day tomorrow as we're having a picnic.

celeste Thank you ido have a wonderful life and I'm really lucky to live in such a gorgeous place, so many people I meet tell me how lucky I am. Except they don't realise that we live at the hospital a great deal of the time and the routines are constant as it will lead to meltdowns with both boys without them. We are also stocked like a pharmacy as 3 of the 4 kids are on quite a lot of medication, but I try to count my blessings and know I'm so lucky to have 4 beautiful children a wonderful dh and my dream home.

once in the summer we are a drying hair overnight family but in winter it's the hairdryer.

Ta da
Dh chopped the firewood
Baked bread
Took girls party
Bought school shoes
Took youngest 3 swimming
Walked dogs
Dishwasher loaded

To do
Take several doughs out of the freezer,ready to bake in the morning for our picnic.

Hope you all have a peaceful night and manage to get a good sleep.

ta da
all the errands - well not all the errands as I lost the postcard that needs to go to the post office and I have probably forgotten something.

bathroom has been prepped for a deep clean
mother has been supervised sorting stuff
about to go remove the decorators tape so that stuff can go back in that room
Sworn at the amount of lego on ds' floor my fault i knocked over a small tub but that stuff goes everywhere
Sworn at the fact I have forgotten I needed to mend ds' blind before he got back tomo and have no time to do so
Written the to do list to be completed for tomo and then prioritised with absolutely essential to try to make it realistic and achievable
Put a room back together post painting
deep clean bathroom - except bleaching shower
laundry - 1 load (ignoring the fold me fold me pile)

I wanted to get sooo much more done today But I am done and need to crash. Tomorrow is going to have to be an insane busy one.

Hello all, haven't spent too much time on Mumsnet today which is progress I think!

Einstein, I always have an unrealistic to do list on the go and never get it all done. Cag, so glad you managed to enjoy the afternoon tea .

I'm not getting in to any kind of wet hair / sleep debate since there seem to be strong feelings either side so the post would take a long time to write.

I love the random chats on here celeste .

Big wing flaps to Ginger, Afresh, Cag, Cotswold, zoo and everyone else.

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

Baby-step no 30 - look ahead on your calendar for upcoming birthdays

We are in Zone 5 this week: the living room

Spend 15 mins decluttering, or whatever you can manage, in Zone 5.

When you have finished decluttering, the detailed cleaning list (if you are at that stage) for Zone 5 is here

daily focus

missions for the week

Flykids mission

August's habit is laundry

Happy flying everyone.
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Morning all! My little dude is 8 years old today 😱 he's already up so I need to join them in a sec and he can open his pressies. Then off to Go Ape with some friends.

Mum I hope you are ok today

Morning all.

Happy Birthday to your ds Cag bless him being up and excited to open his presents

Stressy I like random chats. All is good

Weather here this morning is miserable to the point where i am questioning whether this is the end of summer

Morning all

☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️cuppas for everyone☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️

can I rejoin!! Haven't fly ladyed for many years.

Happy Birthday to your DS Calig!!🎊🎂🍧🎊

Hi Wheelycote I need that cuppa, thanks

Anyone who has is welcome here wheely

Happy birthday to your ds cag I didnt realise we had a same age child!

Morning all,
Happy birthday to you ds cag and thank you I'm feeling a lot better.
Ta da
Dishwasher emptied
Breakfast dishes in dishwasher
Everyone up dressed and fed.

Our picnic is postponed until the weekend as it's a very rainy day here
To do
Vacuum bedrooms
Polish
Air the winter curtains ready for Friday
Get the winter duvets out of the closet

Then I'm just going to have an easy day. Hope you all have a great day

End of summer? Nah it is just the crappy weather in the last week of the holidays before we get lovely weather just as the kids start back to school...

Sleep has been had, now to figure out timings and do ALL the things before I go get ds.

Haha true, yes no doubt we'll have a heatwave from next week all September...

ta da

washed dishes
zoflora'd kitchen tops
made beds
zoflora'd bathroom basin
bleached loo
put a washing load on

Weather is meh here so me and ds are having a bit of a sofa and tv day. Need to make the most of these days i supposes seeing as he starts school next week.

dh has texted me to say he left his lunchbox on the train this morning and that he is hungry

Oppps Guess he will be needing a new lunch box as well as lunch.

Which reminds me. Not sure if ds has a lunch box for school... Will need to put that on the list.

Must post more often, more constructively....

Ta Da

All bottles scrubbed and sterilised
Tea and breakfast pots washed
Bins empty
Kitchen swept
Three loads washed
One load dry and away
Second load in dryer
Third load waiting for dryer .....

To do

Dinner pots
Clean dryer fluff filters because its taking years to dry anything ...
Dinner clean up

Phheeewwww Go Ape and ice cream DONE. Knackered now! At home watching Lego Batman. Then pizza for dinner.

Hi everyone I'm a bit behind on the thread!

Ta das
Daily routine
Dusted living room furniture
Sorted out some toys to take for my nephew when we visit
Did some food shopping
Made a fruit crumble for tonight
Had a bit of a declutter in the living room

Cag happy birthday to your ds sounds like a really good day (although I have done Go ape twice and never again!! But then I'm not at 8 year old boy )

I'm considering buying a steam mop...there's my excitement for the day!

Just in from work,sitting down with a cuppa and then will tackle the house.

Afternoon cuppas and cake for all ☕️🍰☕️🍰☕️🍰☕️🍰☕️🍷🍰☕️🍰☕️🍰☕️🍰☕️🍰☕️

Just got the Ta das.....thought it was predictive text alteration😂 and meant to say To Do.

Foxes are you going for a steam mop or a steam mop where the head detached and it can be used on everything. My friend has the latter and loves it! I'm very envious lol

Hello all, sorry have been at work. Will be back on later.

Welcome wheely have ordered this afternoon and it's one with lots of attachments! It looks good but I'll report back when I get it I'm excited which makes me really quite pathetic doesn't it?!

Hello lovely people! Foxes, not remotely pathetic to be excited. I'm excited on your behalf .

Happy birthday to your DS Cag
. Glad you all had a good day.

Welcome back Wheelycote . Always happy with cups of tea .
Glad you feeling better ofazoo.

Celeste, like Einstein I am fully expecting hot weather for back to school. It's usually the case.

Afresh, I have been rubbish at posting today but plan to start posting more constructively in September!

Work day so no flying achieved. Will be back on with links later.

Meant to say big wing flaps to all!

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

Baby-step no 31 - think about signing up for the individual emails (as there can be quite a lot of them, we would advise caution!)

We are in Zone 5 this week: the living room

Spend 15 mins decluttering, or whatever you can manage, in Zone 5.

When you have finished decluttering, the detailed cleaning list (if you are at that stage) for Zone 5 is here

daily focus

missions for the week

Flykids mission

August's habit is laundry

Happy flying everyone.
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Belated birthday wishes to your DS Cagliostro, sounds like a good day.

We were out this morning and I was out this evening. So not a lot achieved today tbh.

Added more items to the to-do list for school.
Amateur mani/pedi
Tad of ironing
Looked for gym kit for DD, came away with a t-shirt for myself