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 )

Hi everyone
Loving the sheep babies SC
Sleep afresh at last hurrah!!
Glad cagletini seems big better
Bower take it steady
Fool sounds like migraine from hell

Tada
Empty all bins
Recycling/bins out
Sweep living room floor
Clean windows
Sweep kitchen floor
Breakfasts and pack ups
Wipe bathroom windows
Wipe bath
Wipe sink
Wipe radiator
Wash floor
Littertray
School run
Trip to IKEA with dd1(and nearby Asda George)
Back to our town to medicate cat/late lunch
Pop local heron foods
Pick up zoolets
Aldi shop
Come home and flop for a bit!!
Dinner-roasted ment be Yorkshire pudding baskets with mushrooms sauce,mashed parsnip and potato and broccoli but I opt for pasta cheese and broccoli as I am wrecked!!
Washed up
Table wiped
I have a date with a bag of maltesers and some IKEA gingerbread men that were reduced to 25p

Afresh I fear I am too old but I would've loved another zoolet

zoo i am unsure of your age but often see ladies on here in mid-late 40s having babies!

Oh yes apparently so

On here anyway!

Thanks everyone. Done nothing today and not planning to either so 😛 fly lady! Coped. Lovely to see the kids and had lots of hugs from the minute I walked through the gate.
Tired when I came home and almost had a nap but went to feed chicken and fresh air woke me up. Will be off to bed early. Class teaching tomorrow.

I get migraine but have never had one for two weeks that must have been awful FF
SC sheep brought down to field at bottom of the garden with pregnant yows! Some pretty fat so will be checking up on them. Have lambed ewes years ago. Better at foaling though😃
Yeah baby boy Afresh
zoo what are you taking I want some! Goodness what a list.
Cags will answer you tomorrow, checking something. Have you raised cot head end? Probably have but just a thought.

Hi everyone else. Yawning. I'm going to have to go to bed.

cag have you tried calpol plug in? I find it really help little ones with cough and cold. I have actually used it myself too

Just spotted zoo's phone misbehaving on another thread!

Yep afresh glad it's not just fledglings it embarrasses me with!!(tho tbh it sends random crap in texts sometimes too but most of the time everyone seems understand exactly what I ment to send)

Ooh I’ll look for that thanks not tried it before. Can’t raise the cot as she doesn’t have one 😳 she’s in a Moses basket still but in with me propped on my arm while she’s poorly

God what a stressy evening. Panicky phonecalls from various relatives about another relative. Sigh. I get the feeling this is going to be commonplace for a while.

No tidying done.

ta da continued
✅more admin re trampolining, book party etc

The calpol plug in smells so good i am now tempted to go plug it in

But i wont

Not only was it half term last week but I have had to spend hours (probably about 10 so far) re-writing the very sparse draft EHCP that the local authority have produced for DS (who had a perfectly good statement of SEN but now has to be transferred to the new system). Not happy, but it won't be sparse when I've finished with it. DH has stepped up a bit with the housework but I am falling behind with admin yet again. Off to bed, just wanted to vent. .

Good job i didn't break the MN no unexpected visitors rule and knock-on the other day then whoknows drove through your town on the way to spend money refresh my spirit with some yarn goodness. Is there anyway to get some help like you and swan (?) did years ago for the old system?

Oh well I made it nearly 4 months post birth before getting a pain flare that made me want to cry. That’s not bad going I suppose.

Hoping it’s a brief one. TBF a whole lot of crap has been going on lately and I’m not looking after myself enough.

ta da
✅yet more admin for various things
✅taekwondo
✅EFND (new official acronym for everyone fed...)
✅ordered fuck knows what from Tesco for tomorrow

Bloody hell so much to do tomorrow. First pupils coming, I’m finally doing my first lesson. Feeling nervous. Living room a tip.

Thankfully no tap class this week, and due to Cagletini being ill I’ve also cancelled the trip to buy DS his shoes, so after half ten we can rest at home, hopefully get some more home ed stuff done as today’s happenings somewhat fucked that up.

Sorry about the EHCP stuff. I need to look into doing that. I have only ever heard difficult and scary things about the whole system so you have my sympathy 💐

I very nearly managed to post on the right side of midnight day but it takes me so long to comment on all the posts!

No flying here today. Was out at the garage all day (car MOT and service), collected DD from school and then took her to an activity. We usually call in to a fast food establishment for her tea as we are so late back, tonight's KFC offering was not her usual due to their supplier problems (when you only really serve chicken, not getting your chicken supplies is not good) and I had to ring DH from the car park to put extra supplies into the oven at home

Fool that sound grim, could it be a cluster headache - they are hideous, hope you get an appt with a neuro within a decent timeframe. I was putting Vicks on DD and myself last week and I do think it helped.
Cag good to hear Cagletini is doing better, my DD used to get temperature spikes after a virus.
Stressy happy birthday to your little one, glad the party was good.
Bower good to hear that work went well but you must be shattered!
zoo I was in my early forties when I had DD ....
fresh yay for a kind of sleep in at last!
waves to flyingjelly, no-one has done less than me threadwise this month , I'm so behind!
SC is the inspection over with now, pity the sheep couldn't help out with a sudden lambing crisis for you
whoknows that sounds beyond frustrating with the plan
Hills surely fledglings can call in without the homeowner being in fear of judgement
foxes what did you get for tea in the end?!
Cordelia are (or at this time, were!) you feeling any better today? My DH seems to be going down with the bug now, that will teach him to crow about his flu jab ....

Links next (at least they are all sorted ...)

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

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

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 Tuesday declutter the top shelf of your wardrobe

The daily focus for Tuesday is: planning

The monthly habit for February decluttering for 15 minutes a day

daily reminders

cags the way she was growing I thought she might have been out of it by now! Mine had a cradle I always felt a bit sad transferring them to the cot when they outgrew the cradle. I used to prop mine in the crook of my arm too. Hope she is getting better.

I had no visitors at all when my kitchen was lovely and tidy. Then when I was making marmalade and DH had left a pile of washing and other stuff on my almost cleared table two arrived.😤 why oh why don't they come when tidy.

- Plan for today----
1.Just get through today at work.
2.If up early might dust dresser top and wash the crockery on top.
3.make meatballs for tea. I have free steak mince from the butcher.😄

Our KFC was shut the other day too, I was so looking forward to a Caglet-free dirty food opportunity. Nationwide chicken shortage? 😱

I don’t think she is better. Plenty more coughing fits (thankfully she’s started accepting medicine rather than pushing the syringe out). No more fevers though. I think I might be getting what she has, I have that worrying but hard to describe feeling in my chest. 🙄 After my lesson today I’ll just rest as much as possible I think, since we don’t have to go anywhere. Good opportunity for the Caglets to try their independent work that we didn’t get a chance to do at the library.

Our KFC had notice in window shut since fri.new supplier and delivery issues(we don't eat KFC but dd2 was shocked it wasn't open and read sign as we passed we are not paragons of virtue btw can't beat a pizza hut delivery)
Place a tip
Lots baking to do

Naughty kitten rampaging at 4am woke me

Dd2 put self bed at 9(unheard of early) with bad throat and fever)

Gosh there is always so much poorly-ness on here hopefully spring will chase it away!

Ds3 slept til 630 🎉 dd was pestering me from 6 though! Rooting through the things i was half through sorting in my bedroom. No doubt i will now be finding these things all over the upstairs of the house. She is one of those kids who just moves things around.

Ta da

Dryer on
Charity bag out

Yep one improves and another goes down with it.

Doesn't sound good zoo. I was in bed by 8:15pm. Awake 3:30 am - 5:20 plus. Put on missed Archers now and usually drift off. About to get up I was awake again at 6:00 but browsing Mumsnet and Pinterest plus World Vision as I had another letter yesterday that is two since Christmas.😄

Attempts to drag a very hot sweaty heap that is dd2 out of bed were fruitlessly met with sobbing.....she looks like crap and is still sleeping(been asleep 11 hours now)

Tadas
Wash in
Medicate kitty
Fed cat/kits
Littertray
Sweep kitchen floor
Breakfast and pack ups
Wash in dryer
More in
Wipe bath and sink
Bleach lav
About walk D's to end of the road and then check lil zoo hair before we need to leave

She clearly needs it zoo

Back to reality and work with a bump this morning.

To do
coffee!!
up and dressed
into the office to find out the latest shinagans

Hello! cotswold we had steak and chips , I had already planned the meal dh just had to cook it

Ta da
Breakfast

To do
Daily routine
top shelf wardrobe
15 min bedroom
Swish and swipe downstairs loo
Planning
Book bowling

Less flying more flapping here.