February Fabulosity with the fledglings, Flylady Feb 2018 thread

[CotswoldStrife]

Hello all - welcome to our February thread for 2018. Everyone is welcome and it's never too late to join in. We are decluttering our homes and keeping them clean and tidy(ish) as well as having some general chat as well.

We follow the Flylady method, and will post links daily to the missions via the Flylady website. For more information, have a look at www.flylady.net/

Here's to a fun February for all of us (with the occasional prod from the pointy stick of motivation and visits to the naughty corner )

The children have just got every single toy out of dd cupboard and insisted we all play. We've played an elephant game. A fishing game. Peppa pig guess who. Ben and holly giant puzzle. Ben and holly castle . I've had to bribe them with sweets to stop while I have a cup of tea! I can't stop coughing so am drinking constant tea. I'm pleased they are discovering toys they'd forgotten about but it would be nice if someone could put them away again

Ta das
Finished daily routine

To do
Bath mats
15 mins bathroom
Swish and swipe downstairs loo

Cagletini slept really well so feeling ok today really. Safely at mum’s now, journey was ok although I did feel a bit like Olivia Colman’s character in Green Wing 😳 especially as we missed the first bus and still managed to almost miss the next one. 😳🙄 Really glad I brought the sling rather than the buggy as the bus at this end was horrifically packed.

DS has done me really proud today talking about the periodic table 😍and being very polite to various strangers. He is in a mood now though and refusing to play outside. 🤔

ta da
not throw knitting across room
up and dressed
gather laundry from various places
turn heating off and open the windows aaaah fresh air how I love thee.
Write to do lists for today and tomo and then slightly panic
Get hooked on the Pairs free long program and forget supposed to be doing stuff
Start the laundry - 3rd load on
5 mins in my room
boil up avocado pits for making dye
start my packing
hand washing started
Killed the ironing pile for now
Started making the fillings for the piles but lacking some essential ingredients
Sort out hospital appointment
flylady hoover the lounge ie just the bit in the middle

Going to find a jumper, close the window and go run some errands.

Ta da

School run and all that that entails
Nipped to shop
LR1 toys tidy
LR1 swept
LR2 sofa and coffee table tidy
LR2 swept
All pots washed
Sink shon (wow)
Lower cupboard and drawers fronts wiped
Under cupboards and drawers wiped
1 load washed and dry
Second load washed (inc bath mat) now drying
Third load (whites) washed
Fourth load mounting infront of washing machine
School pick up done
Tea done
Dc reading done
Dc3&4 bathed
Dc3&4 bed
Hall swept
Kitchen bins empty
Bathroom bin empty

Half term here next week cant remember if already answered that thanks to mn eating earlier post!

Dc in better mood this pm thank god. Hopefully tomorrow morning will be peaceful too.

ds is not in a peaceful mood. dear god the homework trauma.

I have just been wondering why I have a headache and feel a bit rubbish. Might have something to do with the fact that breakfast was 3 small crackers and a bit of cheese, lunch was 2 more crackers and I haven't eaten tea yet. that'll be why the head ache then

I did the errands except 2, but the shop was shut (small business and life it happens) I have pie mixes cooling, pastry defrosting and should be prepping for tomo. Tbh I don't want to. I need to but I don't want to Oh fuck and handwashing I need to rescue.

Bedtime?

Oh dear hills.
Not much done today. Think I did too much yesterday and wore self out. Have made a cake this afternoon . Dairy free zoo. I used dairy free margarine, it is lovely and light.
Tea made.
Dishes done.
Logs in
Kitchen cleaned
Washing folded

She's had another "turn" claw at face and rolling on floor.seems ok straight after.we are very concerned she might be having breathing issues hope not fits as she has ongoing snot problems from having cat flu as a tiny kitten
She's snuffled on my lap sleeping at mo
Glad got vets app 830 tom

zoo i had a cat as a child who had flu as a kitten, he suffered every year and always needed a booster shot but still lived to a very good age!

In bed at mum’s. Only just got DD to get into hers. Musical beds here as now we have the baby I’m in the double bed and, well, change

ta da
✅fielded DD’s anxiety all evening
✅daily focus - picked up parcel (Caglets ecstatic as it includes a thunderbirds onesie for the baby :o) and posted on the event page for WBD party in order to start selling tickets
✅made it here in one piece

Evening fledglings, I think I will be back to human form by tomorrow so get the pointy stick ready as well as the cough sweets and tissues

I will post the links shortly. I will be back to my usual enforcing role tomorrow (slams palm into fist menacingly). Well I hope so, because the kitchen here is out of control - DH can cook, but not wash up apparently

Well that should have said slams fist into palm. I did say I'd be better tomorrow, not tonight it's not looking good for the links though

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

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We are in Zone 3 this week: remove any rubbish by emptying the bins in the bathroom, utility/laundry, extra bedroom, children’s bedrooms and the office.

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 Friday check your cleaning supplies

The daily focus for Friday is: declutter your handbag and car/date night

The monthly habit for February decluttering for 15 minutes a day

daily reminders

Morning.not a great sleep here as let kit sleep with me.shes a sweetie,but her sister gets up to play in night and kept waking me up crashing around as she refuses to be parted from sibling.when we took them at 8weeks they were apart 48hrs.and "chatted" on reunion and rub/groom.theyve never been apart since(neutered tog and kept in same cage at vets as drew together in fear before and comfort after.they are one next month.be weird separating them for vets trip this morning...(8.30)
I need get up and be productive quell nerves
Stressful day ahead
Kit to vet
Shop trailing zoolets and d who way worse than they are
Dd2 has her first filling at lunchtime and is fretting herself silly

Providing weather is as nice as yesterday we are ment be heading to a local forest pm for a walk and pop into garden centre(there's a works there.zoolets adore the cheap books and stationery)

So off to feed kits and start the day!!

Afresh has mrafresh got his head out of his bum now?

Morning all, thanks for links Cotswold, especially when you and DD are feeling unwell. I meant to say foxes, how lovely to find that card from your grandad.

I’ve just caught up with the thread and i’m afraid I am going to add to the unwell posts. Still have cold and now have a cough. It is DD2’s birthday party tomorrow and half term next week so not good timing at all.

Plan for today has to be rest as much as poss. Also though need to do quick food shop for weekend, clear a room for my parents to stay in tomorrow and have doctors’ appointment. Plus swimming lessons after school. Best get on as DD1 is up.

No zoo he hasnt
Its so far up i think its stuck

I have to get a bazillion pies made before 12noon today. I am about to go start. I don't want to. I'd rather still be asleep. Supposed to be going away for the weekend. I don't want to do that either. It is all feeling like way too much effort right now

Why so much pie?

batch cooking. We have no kitchen due to building work so it needs to be ping and go meals for the next 3 weeks. Gritty food is not fun!

Some fucker has hiden the ceramic beads for blind baking I have had to wake a person to ask them where the fuck they are. The are just finding their eyes yep know that feeling

Actually tbh we have a kitchen it will just be full of plaster dust and the plastic sheeting to keep it at a low level has already proper pissed me off keep forgetting it is there

hills that sounds stressful.

I can't stop coughing. It is really annoying me.

Sorry everyone suffering with colds

Dc just waking up so I better get moving.

Stocks up naughty corner with tissues, cough sweets, lemons, whisky and a kettle. Blankies and a good book, some magazines with lots of pictures like Your Home to flick through when you don't feel much like reading.🔥cosy fire to sit beside.

Plan for today
Get up.
Make marmalade which should have been made Wednesday, Thursday but I got distracted. First by cleaning dresser, secondly by not being able to print recipe and iPad not receiving Internet. Hmm.
So today must do it as fruit turning, lost two oranges.
Vacuum stairs and hall.
Tidy bedroom, not much just put clothes away.
Other room is dining room today. I did all of the cupboard so need to do hot spot and dust window sill and then all done. Skirting boards. Set table. When I set table we don't put clutter on there.

Was hoping for two nights away but DH didn't feel like it yesterday. Has done nothing about taking car in. He knows I hate driving to where garage is. He is going to not mention it now so we won't be going. He was all for it when away. I would have booked it but it has been very snowy there and some roads closed. Waited to see if it cleared.

Hills
You are brilliant cooking all those pies. They sound delicious. I have all this to come uuuuhhhhhggggghhhh! Still deciding on new kitchen. Worked out if I tighten up all my spends for a year plus a little from savings I can afford my share of kitchen. I want to pay back myself monthly. I am not looking forward to the mess especially the dust. I might move out to Son2. House for a couple of weeks he will LOVE that!

Thing is I know that if I do 1 batch of each flavour there is only 1 flavour that I have to make more than 1 more time in the year. 4 large pies done 2 more at blind baking stage, 8 little pies at cooking stage. Run out of pastry and going to shoot out for more blind baking beads and single use aluminium pie tins - I'd rather use my reusable pie forms but today i do not have time to be messing about with cooling times so it is the only way forwards.

It is the fun of having to make sure that pastry is milk free bower don't have a choice but just roll blue has been milk free so that saves me from making from scratch which I will done when I have time and energy as it is far cheaper but atm I don't have time or energy on my side.

Ds has his appointment date for allergies so hopefully we will find out next month whether or not he will need an epi-pen. All the funs.

Sorry meant to say don't have a choice because can't buy allergy friendly pies. We want pie I have to make it.

Coffee?