April Flylady. In which you’ll find Cake for the Fledglings and Compassion for the Frazzled. All welcome as we sort our houses out!

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Hello everyone,
Welcome to the Flylady thread for April, where we follow (sort of) the Flylady system with baby steps, missions, daily focuses (foci?!) and decluttering. But more than that, we are a supportive bunch where we share the trials and tribulations of everyday life. We post our to do and ta da lists and chat a whole lot.
Newbies, lurkers and returners always welcome!
Back tonight with links for tomorrow!

Not sure what happened to Wednesday apart from me having dreadful sinusitis, trying to catch up on thread

Ta-dahs
Late up
DD to school
Orders packed
Laundry on
Hour walk with husband - we both need the exercise.
Quick tidy up in garden

To do
Tumble dryer
Posting
Collect DD
DD to dentist
Dinner
Washing up
Ironing
Preparing for tomorrow's craft classes

Bastard weather went from snow to record breaking heat. I have heat stroke. The windows can't be opened due to allergies. I am still deep cleaning.

Want to take a guess what kind of mood I am in?

Agh, GDPR is doing my head in right now. It's kind of a ta da in that I actually managed to do a live chat with the ICO and get some of the info that I need. But also a massive to do because I've got to get my head round it, write a privacy policy and work out whether it's OK to link to Wordpress from my website...

Also Ta Da
Went swimming
Cleaned car
Lots of S&S
Bit of hot-spotting
Work!

To Do
Not melt.

Actually, in the 2 weeks that the house was mostly tidy, most of the time, it was hotspots that made all the difference, but we're slipping back into bad habits now, so need to get on top of that.

Did everything except the 27 fling but instead did a declutter of the downstairs toys. I never seem to make much progress though

Dinner is chicken stir fry can't face cooking much else!

We've stayed inside most of the day. Ds had a reaction to his suncream and even though I got a new one I didn't want to have to put more on today while he still has a rash. I put a tiny bit on him for the walk to nursery. Rash hasn't got worse anyway.

I seem to have done exactly what fly lady says don't do and gone mad with decluttering but now can't be bothered to put it away so it's worse!!

Good luck blue

That doh moment when you are bitching under your breathe about the stupid jump in heat and you realise you have a fan, lying on its side that you could be using.

hq statement for those interested

And no dh and I haven't ruddy well gone away owing to office issues - DD hardly ever away so shame we couldn't seize the moment - but never mind!

Onwards!

Tbh,this all goes over my head...

I've glad you are still with us

Today I have been over hot,over emotional and over the heat already-please get cooler

I made banana bread 4ways before breakfast-
With chocolate
With coconut
With crystallized ginger
With vanilla

I had emergency dash to vet.tabby kit was impersonating Darth Vader...
She has lots congestion as had cat flu as kitten when we got her.discovwred has chronic rhinitis and this will probably be a long term problem.weather and allergy affected.shes on steroids and has a powder to makeu mucus more liquid
We are warned should she need frequent steroids risk of diabetes and liver/kidney problems as ages
Poor little things very sorry for herself

The more HQ post things the less convinced, I am, that they have a clue or give a shit.

THough I do feel a smidge sorry because this was clearly a targetted attack. But they need to wise up.

Hello all, have been AWOL as it has been so sunny we have been out and about. Thanks for data issue info Hills, I agree it is concerning. Cotswold, we will miss you and hope to hear from you again .

Sorry to hear about bunny SC .

Also sorry for those suffering in the heat. I hate the heat myself but DH and DDs love it . Although DD1 would burn very easily so have to be very careful with the sun.

I did some decluttering of the important papers box so it is a bit more organised. Also did home bleugh. Unfortunately also broke our fan .

I am out tonight for a meal with friends so am excited .

Big wing flaps to all.

foxes if ds continues to react to sun cream i really recommend sunsense it is the only cream one of mine can use

Final Ta-dah
Late up
DD to school
Orders packed
Laundry on
Hour walk with husband - we both need the exercise.
Quick tidy up in garden
Tumble dryer
2nd load washing
Posting
Collect DD
DD to dentist
Dinner
Washing up
Made waffles - I do a batch then stick them in the freezer, DD can then toast them for her breakfast
More washing up
Another 30 minute walk round the park - was too nice to stay in.

Also found a phone I didn't know about under DD's pillow when I tucked her in tonight.

No wonder she was happy to go to bed.
I've not said anything yet, I'm waiting to see if she does.

But she will be losing her official phone straight after school tomorrow.

Forgot links again 😳 but dissertation proposal is finished and sent off now so that’s my stepmotherly duty done for a while!

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Thursday 19th
Babystep www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/day-19/
Daily focus today was errand day. Not yesterday, that was anti procrastination of course. At least “get shit done” applies equally to both I suppose.

Tomorrow, Friday 20th
Babystep www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/day-20/
Daily focus is to clear out car and purse etc.

Missions are here all together www.flylady.net/c/sp.php#missions
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ta da
✅helping DSD
✅laundry
✅cagletini had her first go on the swing!
✅picked up DD’s new glasses and bought a few baby things in boots too
✅salmon and green veg cooked in paper for lunch, that was ace, cagletini had bits of it and I stirred mine through pasta with cream cheese 😋
✅remembered to take bag of hand me downs to friend and discussed possibly tutoring her DD

NO shame face Cag life happens we know this. Links happen. Half of us don't even bother to look at them anyway. So meh so what if they get forgotten sometimes. If they are really needed people can find them or ask.

Ivegot thanks I will keep that one in mind if the ambre solaire is no good. Ambre solaire was the only one I could use as a kid so thought I'd try that next! Dd has a bit of a rash too now. Maybe Nivea have changed their ingredients because I'm sure she has used it before unless it's heat rash. I'll just have to see if it goes now I've stopped using the cream I guess.

Where do you get that sun sense one from ivegot I think it might be better after looking at their website. I've got to put ambre solaire on dd as she needs something on for nursery. But will be hard to tell since she already has a rash.

I'm going to pop to the chemist later and get them to have a look at the rash I think. They're very helpful in there.

We had it on prescription the last few years but dont know if a gp will prescribe now with cut backs. You can buy it online maybe chemist can order it in

Fwiw i was once told by gp they were better with a rash from cream than sun burn from having nothing on

Morning.

I am in too minds about jumping ship. So if all my posts disapear then that is why.

Kitchen is 3 cupboards short of completion. 1 is empty and waiting to be cleaned, 1 is half empty and needs remaining dealt with and cleaning, last one needs emptying but that will have to wait until the others have been done due to bench space.

Did tooo much yesterday. I have the ouchies today. SLightly less heat related grumps though which is a good thing.

Oh no Hills we absolutely need some visceral grumpiness on the thread can't be doing with too much Flylady purple positivity!

And wise words about links to CAG!

CAG the last thing you should be is shame-faced with all the plates you are spinning currently! It's bloody impressive!

A bit of progress to report re: bathroom storage (living on the edge here!). You may remember we had no storage in b'room and bought a not very beautiful IKEA cupboard to ease the problem - which it did! However, storage is only as successful if people use it properly and I kept finding shampoo bottles, brushes, toothpaste, deodorants, shaving cream etc etc (the stuff one uses daily) on the mantelpiece (yes wierdly we have a mantelpiece in the bathroom) which was driving me mad (having to pick up each item to clean under it). Anyway recently took delivery of two Curver plastic off- "woven" white boxes (approx £12) and all daily stuff goes in those! All much easier and "people" are actually using them properly! Success!

In summary, we have blamed and then sacked the wrong group of politicians!

I am also wondering about sticking around or not

Maybe setting up a new account. Delete this one. Give away no info. Hmm.

Oh bugger, sorry, ignore last post, wrong thread! Tablet jumping about on its own for some reason!