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!

And just to add to Hill's excellent synopsis

See this article here.

Oh bugger

Trying again here.

Local nature area sounds lovely Zoo!

Drive safely Hills and have a good day!

Hope poorly fledglings are generally feeling a bit better today and that you are recovering from your busy week Bowerbird.

So I decided start painting.jnder an hour dd2 says "will it all be done today"
I am losing will to live already.....

She hasn't an inch of patience

Hello all, have tried to catch up on posts.

longtime , how awful, especially horrific of course when a child dies .

Fooland, hope you are managing to carry on and rest when you can, even if only for a few minutes.

Hills and SC, thanks for excellent summaries. I have not posted on the debate at all. I certainly posted personal info under old usernames in the past which was probably best avoided. The trouble is, as we’ve said, if you can’t ask advise about children’s behaviour (which I have definitely benefited from on here) and have general chit chat about day to day stuff then it sort of loses the point. This is such a lovely thread and the chat is the best part of it! Have debated changing my user name but I love this one and if I made a whole different profile with different age children etc then I’m not sure it would be as helpful day to day. So i’ve decided to stay but will be a bit more vague at times maybe if stuff is identifiable. It’s not anonymous and has never claimed to be so might need to remind myself of that sometimes.

Ta da:-
We are actually on a child free night away!!
Not as exciting as it sounds as it is so DH can do a sporting event, hotel is ok but nothing special and everything is so expensive . However, I really can’t complain as we are child free, no cooking required and unexpectedly have bought DH’s father’s day present from the kids as he saw something he wanted on offer so will just get them to buy him something very small for actual father’s day.

Big wing flaps to all and thanks for links as always Cag.

Enjoy night off stressy

I have given up for the day having come down to check washing n return to find lil zoo on top her chest drawers "drawing" right next where I am painting and pushing her "stuff" scatter over top said drawers perilously close to paintpot
I should never have broken rule about decorating with school age children-never whilst they are at home😟

Frustrated and irritated I have stomp downstairs like a 5year old

It's humid and horrible here and I am grumpy!!!

To do
Not slay any children-neither mine or neighbourhood ones lurking around about and making noise which at mo it irritating the fuck out of me

Meal plan for next week

Dinner-- cold affair as cooked sausages at lunch,probably cheese salad pittas

I need chocolate and sleep.and I've no money for former and don't usually get latter

Oh dear Zoo decorating is hard work at the best of times ... and ...

Enjoy your night's break away Toostressy and hope your dh's sporting event goes well!

Dh and I are meant to be enjoying child-free time but he is either working or sleeping because he is so exhausted from working ... not that he can help that as its a very busy time of year ... but a bit crap all the same ... . Wish I had made other plans now but feel it would be mean of me to abandon him when he is slogging his guts out. And although I am trying my best to use the time to get stuff done, vertigo keeps returning intermittently which is so frustrating (plays tiny violin).

Heigh ho! Onwards ... !

Thanks both. I am still stunned at how easy a night away without children is . I have actually felt a bit bored. Don’t worry, I savoured the feeling and am very greatful for it!

Also some soothing for you SC, zoo and anyone else who needs it.

And for you Toostressy might as well

SC I know that feeling
There's a major investigation going on at do work after a "whistle blower" had counter allegations cast.theres been a second round interviews with management,all very stressful.all senior staff under suspicion wrong doing now.dp is covering as boss gone home on sick with stress seniors are on suspension over allegations.one other "minion" has ms n don't work nights so it's just him n one other who is away this weekend.he did last night.weng home n back lunchtime.there til MONDAY 3 PM!!!he gets go bed at 10 pm and back in office for 8am,but as always when shit hits fan something's up.he was up at 3 deal issues .agency are been drafted in to help end next week but til then budget constraints mean there's no back up plan
He's off Tues but go be a wreck needing tlc(and we have asthma check for D's,plus his parents eve)I need try and make sure things are ticking smoothly over delerious if think i can actually do that he's also fret case close project down

Don't need a tiny violin btw.need a cello so people notice

Arf at chello Zoo but that all sounds really awful! Poor bloke; those hrs are really punishing and not sustainable long term. Not nice for you in terms of referred stress either (hands over more ).

MNHQ statement well q&a statement on the issue is here. It is far more reassuring that some of the on board conversations. I have been derailed by the mention of feynmann.

Although that said SC science books for dd try some of the new scientist ones like this tornadeo one they have a whole bunch of them. I think one of them was why don't polar bears get cold feet. Light science but still some interesting facts.
Also this list of new titles might be interesting here

Ok we are up to date as it stands on the data breach issue.

back to normal service

ta da
fuck all

yep totally and utterly normal service!!!!

Hills . Thanks for that link, it is helpful.

Yes Hills thank you so much for both links!!

The books look fantastic and just what I'm after! DD will be thrilled with them!

And very kind of you to take the trouble after a long tiring day! Xx

tada from hills-not FA-sharing info in simple terms

PS D's would love those book links

Morning campers

Ds3 seems to be on perminant 5am wake ups

Ds1 up at 630 doesnt feel well

Dd also up at 630 clearly still very tired

Argh ivegot not a good start

Ty foxes

Did you have any success with suncream?

Well that was one hell of a night. Managed to get Cagletini in bed before 10, but she woke shortly after midnight and thereafter literally didn’t sleep more than 15 minutes in a row, all night. You’d think I was giving her IV caffeine rather than milk. Just popping on with links then sending baby downstairs with the others so I can actually sleep.

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Sunday 22nd April
Babystep here something about procrastinating
No missions because it’s Sunday, but we are now moving into zone 4 - the master bedroom, or boudoir as it is fondly known.
Daily focus is renewing your spirit.
A little reminder that the habit of the month is making your bed (meh).
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