Part 2, extra February Fabulosity with the Fledglings!

[CotswoldStrife]

We've filled the first thread, so for the final Fabulous days of February we'll use this one!

Welcome back fledglings, we are so fabulous it is more than one thread can cope with! Join us here for the final days of February as we use the Flylady system of Zones and a little bit of work every day to keep (or put) our houses in order. I'll repost the links for today as a reminder.

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 26 - jump in where you are

We are in Zone 5 this week: the living room

Spend 15 mins decluttering in Zone 5.

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

Mission for Monday remove items that do not belong in the living room!

The daily focus for Monday is: weekly home blessing hour

The monthly habit for February decluttering for 15 minutes a day

daily reminders

Place marking ty cotswold

Placemarking. Thanks Cotswold .

We had snow here this morning, now we have hail!

Placemarking. TY Coltswold

Checking in.

Ta da
Cleaned kitchen
Cleaned bathrooms
Did some admin

Feeling a bit sad. Just worked out DH will only have had five days off in February.

I know I could take the kids in pyjamas to parents evening, but the thing is I shouldn't have to. I booked it around his day off that he's only just deigned to tell me isn't happening. It's also going to be so cold and it's quite a walk from the parking to the school. It's got a long drive.

I tidied up for a friend this morning who didn't come.

I think the root of it is that I'm very lonely at the moment. I'm not usually this bad, but it builds up the more DH works.

Checking in.thanks cotswold

Callmeit's hard parenting by yourself.i need to get out or the walls close in

Tadas
Lower floors all washed
Banana and raspberry cake due out oven in 5(smacks lips in anticipation as smells AMAZING!!) thankful dd1 pinned me into that recipe this morning and all ingredients were good to go in cupboards.plus it's no added sugar and zoolets will never know.mwahahaha

callme fwiw i wouldnt attempt to take our dc to parents evening. We have 4 who are 10 and under, the wait can be long and they get bored!

Place-marking. Thank you Cotswold!

Not surprised you are frustrated Cordelia could you get a baby-sitter for the evening to help you out?

Banana and raspberry cake sounds amazing zoo!

My parents would help usually, but they have real, proper, can't get out of bed flu. Part of the reason I'm so down is that they've been in India for two weeks (that included half term), then with my sister in East Grinstead (she had an operation) and now this. Usually they help me at the weekend and I speak to my mum every day. With them being (understandably!) away I've had weeks of not speaking to anyone except children for days. Or at least the day between 6am and 7:45 pm. I really need to widen my social circle, but I find that hard.

I'll cobble together a solution. I always do. It may be that DH will leave work early, because that is the only solution. And he will just have to lump it.

Signing in. Will ta da later I want a nap

Thanks for the new thread!

Ta das
Picked up parcel
Bought tissues
Bought nephew a birthday card
Wiped windowsills in ds room
Swish and swipe bathroom
Hoovered
Mopped downstairs
Got chicken out for dinner
Finished daily routine
Did 3 x washes
Emptied upstairs bins

To do
Living room mission and declutter
Cook dinner (chicken and chorizo pasta)
Mop bathroom
Ironing

I've just posted on old thread by mistake so posting on here again now (sorry for duplication; it's boring enough only reading it once frankly)

Well I've just finished very tedious office work. And have looked through three more boxes of papers for missing medical stuff - no luck - can't understand where it has gone!!

Also has put me in a very bad mood about future paper decluttering. I can avoid it no longer and those years of procrastination and "putting it off until another day" have caught up with me. I need to get rid. But it is SO tedious going through paper by paper and not quite knowing where to put things and dithering and then putting paper back ... can only stand 30 mins at a time... not looking forward to this at all.

DD is home burdened with hours of hwk. She is getting stuck in though thankfully.

Need to carry on with laundry.

Anyone know why photos might not post on here?

Also feeling gloomy because I feel I have a cold/ear thing coming on and feel a bit floaty/dizzy again. I would do anything/pay anything not to have another attack of labyrynthitis so moving around rather tentatively now.

Sorry for drip-whinge

Absolutely Callme, I can see why you are annoyed, especially as you have planned for how to cover your childcare so you don’t need to bring them .

Cordelia I was saying on another thread that the lack of back up is an issue for me too. We relocated with DH's job and it was a big change for me, especially when it's difficult to get out and recreate that social circle. I am worried that it will be worse when DD goes to secondary because I won't see anyone!

Just dropped DD at out-of-school activity, hardly worth driving home but thought I'd see if DH was back yet (he has something on at work that may drag on into the evening) and he's not. DD's quick tea of choice on a late Monday night is still not available in the local chicken place so will have to go elsewhere!

Will catch up properly later.

Bollocks missed the thread link. March's thread is also open.

Sorry?

Hey, we'll need a March thread too so it's all good

I can do March if it's not already sorted, may be able to make up for my poor showing in February limited talk and even less action

Need to 'encourage' DD to finish her homework and then I'll be back later on.

I like having 3 threads to post on!

Sc sorry to hear you’re feeling ill and down. I hope dd got through all of her homework. I do feel for you having to get through the dreaded Belgian school system. I miss dd but not the homework and constant testsad exams.

I’m also struggling with paper decluttering though I’m not looking for anything in particular so don’t have that frustration. My problem is I get bored of a task in one room so move on to another leaving a trail of destruction in my wake.

I have a dishwasher to unload and a basket of washing to put out which I should have done today but haven’t. I do have some tadas though:

Loaded and put on dishwasher
Loaded and put on washing machine
Some financial admin
Picked up dh’s prescription from the chemist
Posted letters
Bit of shopping (including a half price fleece and a couple of those aluminium foil containers with dog food in as I saw a homeless man outside the shop with a little dog who was shivering despite his coat and blanket).
Went to the bank
Picked up the new 🚗
Went out to a student (was worried about the snow but it had stopped by then)
Done nothing since except slob out in front of the tv despite the unloaded dishwasher and washing machine and now I can’t even be bothered to move to go to bed!

I cba writing my ta das

But i have done stuff

Honest

That's kind of you Longtime thank you! Poor DD has done nothing but study and eat since she got home tonight after a fairly long school day. As is traditional, they are piling on the hwk a bit more after the Carnaval break.

I am feeling slightly more cheery though aided by
(1) the fact that I found my medical papers - yay- I kid you not, in very last pile I looked through, tucked in between some plastic folders! I'd almost given up looking at that point so feeling a bit more encouraged now as produced two recycling bags full of papers as a byproduct of the search. Will try not to think about the rest of the boxes that await me but YY to getting bored with it very quickly and YY to leaving a trail of destruction behind me too. I am going to have to be disciplined for once and do X 30 mins a day or something.

(2) also feeling slightly cheered from watching Mary Berry flirt with a Swedish chef with the help of two roasted celeriacs and a bunch of birch twigs washed down with a a glass or three of . Thought if I feel dizzy anyway then wine might steady me up in reverse! Should have given it up for Lent but somehow ... um... we haven't yet this year. I'm blaming it on the cold weather

Speaking of which, and on a more solemn note, oh that poor man and his dog . I saw on the evening news tonight that police in Etterbeek are "arresting" the homeless and forcibly putting them in to shelters because of the extremely cold temperatures over the next few days.

Congrats on shiny new car btw! And slobbing out is sometimes more than necessary on a dark cold evening so don't be too hard on yourself!

Off to investigate third thread ...

OK so original Feb thread no longer accepting posts so it ends beautifully on Afresh's "world domination" comment [

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PS Hills thanks very much for thinking of science books. DD's strongest language is English (she is English mother tongue) so don't think that would be a prob but we can always get Fr/Ne translations if it's prob I should imagine.

I want sausage, mash and onion gravy now [drools]

Crikey it's the first on Thursday!

Is it just me or did January and February go very quickly indeed?

Callme that is very hard indeed when you have no adult conversation for days on end. Dh travelled for most of dd's infancy - up to 6 yrs - still does a fair bit - so I can really really sympathise. I hope your parents and sister feel better soon!

Terrific list Foxes! as is yours ¨Longtime!

G'night all!

[Leaves vat of out for Cotswold]