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

[Cagliostro]

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!

Zut! I have just endured another delightful session of wearing rubbery black out headgear (the kind used for virtual reality games) attached to wires and a computer - being spun around in a large Mastermind chair - and then "manoeuvred" rather energetically strapped to a giant medical "ironing board" - and managed not to puke ...

After all of that, they are now thinking it's not labyrinthitis - and are recommending an MRI - so it's back to the gp.... .

Fark. I am trying not to think of all the other things that could be causing it..but my imagination is running wild ...had better do some chores to take my mind off it all. Absolutely no point in worrying until you have something concrete to worry about (as my late ma used to say).

[wibble]

Quiet hills sound lovely Hills!

Congrats to everyone else requires: fab lists of achievements today!

Oh bummer, in the time it's taken me to type this it's gone from gorgeoys bright sunshine to dark and pouring with rain which is going to nadger all the blossom!

Data inputting DONE

Post office & collect DD next

Well done Goth!

Sorry - autocorrect on overdrive - that should have read "re: fab list .." and gorgeoys = gorgeous!

Oh dear SC.

Well done zoo!
Sc for you

Ta da
Went to hair cut. Found out hair cut had been cancelled so came home again.
Picked up some groceries.
Swish and swipe bathroom
Dishwasher emptied
Agreed to do some urgent work. Internet stopped working so had to apologise profusely and send work back.

So half an efficient day and then a ridiculously inefficient afternoon

Dh has promised to fix computer asap (he is very good with computers thank goodness because I'm really not) but in the meantime I've had to cancel work over the weekend as well. Oh well at least I'll have time to make my chicken korma recipe I wanted to try for dinner tomorrow

Fish fingers are in the oven!

Have we scared everyone away foxes?
Very quiet here today!!

Tada
Sweet potato and broccoli prep n cook for quiches(one broccoli,kidney bean and thyme.other one sweet potato,peppers and red onion)pastry made and chilling.will roll and blind bake tonight then just need do fillings and bake in the morning

Lil zoo n D's having fish again(need do a freezer shop) sprouts and green bean and sweet potato mash.
Mango jelly and defrosted mango pieces for pud

I need comfort as does dd2(dare I say her first period start last night and she's a bit shell shocked)so it's risotto for us

I have not been scared off. I have just consumed enough coffee to get all the things that need doing done.

Thanks Zoo and Foxes! Had a quick zonk out this pm and felt a bit better!

Zoo for doing the ceiling painting! And all of that heroic baking! Hope your dd2 ok bless her x

Foxes sorry you had such a frustrating afternoon! Hope computer fixed soon! Shame about haircut too! Here's to a better one tomorrow!

Goth hope paperwork clearance went ok!

Cheery wing flaps to everyone else!

Thurs is usually veggie night but dd (after being away) was desperate for red meat so chickpea and carroty curry dish thing was served with lamb steak slapped on top! DD devoured it like a crazed wolf so a quick trip to gp to check iron levels may be in order ... .

Hello all.

SC . Also for your DD2 zoo.

foxes, I have memory boxes but not a brilliant system for them. We have A4 shoebox style boxes as they are relatively cheap. I would like something a bit more durable or airtight but can never find anything good or can justify the cost of replacing them all - the boxes tend to be actual shoeboxes or boxes we have acquired from places. We fill probably a box a year for each child and keep them on top of their wardrobes. This worked fine until they were old enough to want to look through the boxes andess everything up in them . So I don’t have he best system.

One thing I do that works really well is to have sort of ‘temporary’ memory boxes. Just cheap plastic A4 size ones. I keep them downstairs and put ‘important’ pictures, schoolwork etc in them throughout the year but that I may not end up keeping. Works especially well for artwork / souvenirs that you want to keep for a little while in case the kids ask for them but not forever. Then every so often I go through the box and recycle stuff or put it in a proper memory box.

Also one thing I saw that looks awesome is Clutterbug’s video on YouTube about making memory binders for each school year. Needless to say I have not managed to make any but did enjoy watching the video .

Bower, I have a great image of you lying quietly in bed trying to avoid the window cleaner .

Ta da:-
Went to work, had surprisingly lovely day.
Kids in bed

To do:-
Tea
Tidy etc

Need to figure out whether to move DD1 from an activity that she loves that works brilliantly in terms of timings and her friend doing it to another activity that she would love more and that another friend does but is more inconvenient .

Big wing flaps to everyone, going to do something now.

Aaaargh sorry folks I’ve been rubbish today

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Thursday 26th
www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/31-beginner-babysteps/day-26/ Jump in where you are (seriously I need to remember this)
www.flylady.net/d/daily-focus/daily-focus-thursday/ errand day
www.flylady.net/d/zones/zone-4/ Boudoir
www.flylady.net/c/sp.php#missions Tidy your dresser. I don’t have one of those either
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I can’t remember yesterday’s ta das and don’t have much today either. I am definitely managing more home ed though. Fitting it in to those small moments. So that’s something.

SC

ta da
half the things that needed doing
plus take the bed apart to rescue the tv remote which I dropped between the bed and wall (took some jumpers out of storage at the same time.
deal with an over tired refusing to go to bed ds.

Cag it is the rule as thread leader that posting the links counts as flying Just keep on keeping on. You'll get it.

Morning!

Ds3 up at 4 am
So an improvement on yesterday but still
Luckily i did go to bed early last night (930ish)

🍫 for dd2 zoo

Thanks I've
If sleep is for the weal you are strongest woman in the world

Tada
Cats fed
Wash on
Bleach lav
Quiches made- broccoli and kidney bean and sweet potato peppers and red onion with thyme(both baking as I text)
Clear up mess I made doing so
Sweep Liv and kitchen floors
Bag plastic recycling out out in crate
Empty bathroom and kitchen bins
Clear dining table

Bless you zoo that made me

Ta da

Wash on
Dryer on
Dc4 up fed changed dressed
Wheelie bin out
Dry pots away
Dry washing sorted

Ta da continued ....

Cot stripped
Uniforms ironed
All dc and me up fed dressed
Library book found
Ds3 bag packed as out for a while this morning
Dry washing away

ta da
all washing up and dishwasher run
washing machine run
all cupboards taped closed against plaster dust
argue about which power is being turned off and how it is going to affect tea
shout at ds

Cag personally I've been fine with late links - makes me feel less bad about not doing the missions this week

Do we have a volunteer for May's links? I can do it if no one else wants to

Ta-dahs
Feed cat
Swish & swipe
Breakfast
DD to school
Packed orders

To do
Bins
Cat litter tray
Laundry
Ironing (from yesterday - lost the will after dinner)
Residential classes this afternoon
Posting
Collect DD
Reports on classes
Dinner
Washing up
Some decluttering if I get time

Hope everyone has a good day

I dont even read the links

I am a fake flyer!

Me neither! I am a fake hostess 😳

TBH some of them I don’t need to anyway. Once you know the daily focus you don’t need to read it, same with zones really.

I would love to do the missions each day but don’t feel ready to 😳 I am hoping that once we have decluttered and are getting ready to move, the structure of the missions and detailed cleaning lists will help us sort the place out ready for end of tenancy. So it will be mega useful then. But ATM I don’t feel in the right headspace because we still have so much clutter.

My plan when we move is to set up a control journal (I am thinking of ideas now of daily routines etc but will add to it when we are in the new place) and to follow the missions and zones much more closely as we will be starting from scratch and hopefully less cluttered.

You may all laugh at me when we’ve been living in the new house for a month and haven’t unpacked.

cag i do laugh, because we moved last year to a bigger house (twice the size tbh) and had all these good intention. Yeah. It still a tip.

Morning!

Ta da
Dishwasher emptied
Rubbish out
Washing on

To do
Pay nursery fees
Finish daily routine
Declutter bag purse car
Instead of decluttering in the bedroom I'm going to spend some time making a list of clothes I want to look out for and storage for the bedroom. Can't afford much at the moment but will be a list for later (dh birthday coming up so expensive month and made worse by the fact that I now can't work j until the computer is working properly )
Swish and swipe downstairs loo
Make chicken korma for dinner - can make the sauce earlier and heat up later so I might do that if I get time / motivation
Pick up two parcels which will have to wait until after ds afternoon nap now as got to pick dd up soon

Oh and I'm ignoring today's mission of remaking my bed. It's already made so I'm not wasting any more time on it!!

I think following fly lady loosely is the best way, it has definitely helped me with routines but I don't get too bogged down in the missions as a lot of them don't make sense for me to spend time on.

I've also want to make a cake at some point - lemon poppy seed cake but I need to pick up the new cake tin first so I'll see if I get time.

For me what's been most helpful is anti procrastination day.

I like the idea of the home bleugh, and I've adapted it to what suits us and this house. I try and loosely do the zones, but if I don't, I don't beat myself up about it.

I've had the morning off. I had ideas of decluttering the en suite. Hasn't happened, but I did have a nice long bath and a chat to my mum. Now I'm going to nip to the Range. So no housework, but I'm just not in the mood!

I just come here to chat and post an early routine tada.anything else is a bonus!!

Tada
Made 24mini cheese, red onion and sage muffins
Wipe bath and sink
Drop baked goods at church for 8am (key holder available then,later in the day chap in charge of catering a brass band at another local church and who volunteers at our church community cafe will pop in and collect from the big fridge in there

Drop lil zoo and school
Come back,start wash up
Hot water packs up...
Ring council approved heating engineer as went off with low pressure yesterday.its too high now....
Have stay in anytime til 5wait engineer.grrr
Sent dp get a hoover on sale at Asda George
Hoover stairs
Tidy hall way
Clear space engineer get to said boiler
Hot water seems back on now,but I don't expect it to stay as it's still running in danger zone of high pressure

Ooo a hoover!