October House of Order - Fledglings flying through October 2017

[CotswoldStrife]

Order, Order! Do you have a little house of horrors? Welcome to the October Flylady thread where we follow the Flylady method for keeping our houses in order (along with some general chat and support). The monthly focus for October is paper clutter

I'll be posting links to the daily missions, daily focus and the zone cleaning - don't worry about the detailed zone cleaning if you haven't already decluttered, Flylady recommends decluttering first. Join us at any point this month

I'll post the first October links tonight!

ta da
✅steroid injection #2 (much less painful!)
✅asked some questions at the hospital (also it turns out the not sleeping is a common side effect of the steroids!)
✅gathered a few more bits for hospital
✅bath, hair wash, shave legs in preparation for tomorrow
✅wash hand knitted baby clothes (need to hang out in a mo)
✅set alarm to ring hospital at 7.30 tomorrow to find out when we go in!

Just popping by to comment on washbags (back to old name as it was easier to do seasonal NC). We keep ours filled in a two plastic baskets on the top shelf of my wardrobe (shelf is above hanging rail, it's a very tall wardrobe). We use them fairly often (every school holiday at least) and it's easier to just keep them packed, also we leave electric toothbrushes at home and just carry normal ones do they live permanently in the bags anyway. The DCs only have shower gel, toothbrush and paste, deodorant and in DD's case hairbrush and bands. Mine has all sorts so I clear it out every now and then.

Also excited about the pending arrival of BabyCag .

I'm going to start properly on Monday as working long day tomorrow but feeling really motivated by everyone else's achievements. Sorted out a few bits today so am ready to properly start Monday.

Thanks Whoknows that's a v good idea for wash-bag storage. I need to do major, major declutter of boudoir and home office (where we have "overflow" chest of drawers) and sort it all out properly once and for all!

[Sets out tray of cheese, crackers, grapes and for Cotswold for later. ]

Cag sending strength, courage and lots of love and prayers to you and yours tomorrow! Xxx May the full force of the fledglings be with you

Toostressy as I always have to complicate matters, I have a bad habit of taking multiple miniatures with me on holiday which rather defeats the object .

Oh... Flying ... absolutely nowt save for two loads of washing .

DD and I spent most of the day watching Sherlock re-runs ... .

I now want cheese and crackers I have the wine in hand!

Cag thinking of you tonight and especially tomorrow - hope it all goes well and looking forward to the announcement PHOTO ASAP PLEASE whenever you can PHOTO PRETTY PLEASE and we'd really love a picture of the new baby if you get a chance although I know you'll be busy with baby and family DID I MENTION THAT WE'D LIKE A PHOTO

Oh yeah, links, flying, whatever PHOTO No pressure, honestly, although if Sunday had a mission I bet you can guess what it would be ...

Sweet dreams fledglings, I hope you get some sleep Cag (and you too Stressy, I have a night owl who needs little sleep myself so I do feel your pain on that front)

Our love and best wishes to Cagliostro and family today!

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

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Baby-step no 22 - keep building your control journal

No zone work or missions at the weekends – woo hoo, enjoy!

The daily focus for Sunday is: renew your spirit

The monthly habit for October paper clutter

daily reminders

So excited for the arrival of baby cag - hope all goes well!

Thank you all for your congratulations on getting through my presentation. I have a much bigger one in November!

Only a few tadas today:

Food shopping at 8:30 this morning
Just loaded the dishwasher now
(Dh cooked)

And of course the main one, we collected dd from Calais 😍. Due to storms at sea the boat was both delayed and took a half an hour longer than expected plus it’s a long round trip from Brussels to Calais and back. Dd only realised last week she would be able to come and the Eurostar from Ashford (she is in Canterbury) was €€€€€ hence the coach/boat/car combination. Anyway it is lovely to have her home and to have had someone to watch Strictly with!

Sc we definitely need to find time to help one another out. Or sod it and go out for coffee! We love Sherlock here too and went to the Sherlock convention in London a couple of years ago. I bought dd a gold ticket so she could go to all the talks/get lots of autographs/have priority for photos. She has some great ones! She actually cried after her photo with Benedict Cumberbatch! Martin Freeman never does them so she was delighted he walked past her in London a couple of weekends ago!

To do tomorrow

Go to the tip (discovered yesterday that it’s now open on a Sunday - nothing much opens on a Sunday here so I’m surprised)
Keep coming on here for baby cag updates

Good luck cag

Thanks all! They have space now so off we go ASAP!

Good luck Cag!!!

Um, and if you get the chance, I think Cotswold would perhaps like a photo

Seriously though, wishing you well. Sending positive vibes from across the Channel!

Eeeeekcag
Good luck!!xxxx

Thank you! In a taxi as the thought of a 90min bus journey was too much 😂

And yes there will be a photo as soon as I can :o I'm taking a separate (i.e. non-outing) one just for the two MN threads ❤️

Good luck cag!

Sorry Longtime didn't read down thread earlier! Good luck with tip run today! And yes, we should definitely get together for some mutual decluttering (if you promise not to be too shocked by crimbled state of this house!) and/or meet for a coffee and chinwag!! Shall we pm after half-term? School starts back on the 6th I think!

Btw, no wonder your DD was ecstatic re: gold ticket at Sherlock convention - mine would have been catatonic!

Cheery wing flaps to Zoo and to everyone else!

Taxi sounds good Cag! Fingers and toes crossed for you!

Thank you all safely settled in now and thanks to a friend with insider knowledge I am now on wifi :o have had monitoring just waiting for doctors before starting anything.

Good luck cag how exciting!!

I've just been to a jumble sale charity type thing. I was really pleased with myself that I managed to take along a huge bag of stuff that I had decluttered this week. However my mistake was taking dd with me who wanted a huge Bob the builder work bench and of course I let her have it and now it is slap bang in the middle of my living room

I don't think I'll ever get the hang of this decluttering!

foxes you are sooo like me.declutter and zoolets rebuild

Nothing happening yet! Just thought I'd update :o

(Paces floor of naughty corner into a groove)
Thinking of you lovely.xx

Also thinking of you here Cag .

Ta da:-
Quite a nice day here. DH working most of the day but was able to be here for bits of it and most importantly for girls’ bedtime which is so much easier with two of us.
Had a nice play date - felt embarrassed (newish friend) by the toy mess and the fact that toys all disorganised then decided that I don’t actually know that many people with perfectly organised toys anyway.
Went to park
Bedtime routine done so am going to try to do a bit more tidying then collapse. Should attempt some decluttering but did do 5 mins in the study earlier (for zone 3).

To do:-
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Night all. Half term here next week and i’m off work . We have a couple of activities planned tomorrow so will not be a lazy morning!

Thanks for the update Cag, have been thinking about you today!

I did know that Cag was planning a photo, because I pm'd her last week about something else. I wouldn't really badger quite that badly if I didn't know Cag was prepared to do it

Will do the links in a bit, got the sneak peek for next week so time to update the files.

I did ask her about the photo last week, though!

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 23 - afternoon/get home from work routine

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 remove anything from your bedroom that should not be in there!

The daily focus for Monday is: weekly home blessing hour

The monthly habit for October paper clutter

daily reminders