Flying Fakers come what May! Come and join the half-arsed Fledglings as we post our To Do and Ta Da lists and get our houses just a tiny bit tidier...

[Cagliostro]

Or try to anyway!

All welcome! I am struggling to stay awake so I’ll do the proper thread stuff tomorrow, but if you’d like some encouragement and chat while you get your house sorted then this is the place for you. We follow flylady in a delightfully lax sort of fashion.

Special thanks to zoo for the title idea 💐 😘

You're absolutely right zoo I wish I didn't feel guilty all the time though. It pisses me off because I know we all feel like this but WHY?!? I am my own worst enemy.

We've just got home, I have achieved hardly anything. I'm in a really faffy mood not actually getting anything done just staring at things for ages.

I will add a couple of ta da though

Made both dc lunch - tuna sweetcorn sandwiches and grapes
Bought bread and milk

Nothing else achieved though.

Just home.had go get lil zoo from school.tummyaches really bad😢

Right

I am here

Stick please

-->. Nice stick
---->>> super pointy
----++>>>> barbed super pointy

Take your pick I've

Hmm i need 3 but tbh was hopeful you could only manage feather duster!

How is lil zoo?

I dispatched ds to school and collapsed back into bed for a nap. Feel sooo much more human for doing so.

ta da
Make smoothie for ds' lunch
1st load of washing done
1st load of hand washing done
clean a section of bench AND RETURN TO NORMAL! yes I am shouting, yes it is an achievement, yes people are in trouble
Sort out next area to be deep cleaned
make egg mayo for and throw out in disgust (mayonaise had gone off)
Discuss plan for freezer and party prep (there are a few big family things this year that need catering)
Sort out start of shopping list.
Put bread machine on for making pizza for tea.
find cake recipe for ds to make later
return things to their normal homes in lounge (not much but some)
swear about men, empty spaces and inability to listen well sometimes you just have to and the person wasn't here to listen
Put things back into loft
put dw on.
2nd load into washing machine
deal with ds who has clearly NOT had a good day!
empty car
take out recycling
empty rubbish bin
2nd load of wool socks
3rd load of wool socks (had to sort by colour due to colour bleeding/transfer)
Take pain killers, my sinuses are killing me. too much allergy
1st wool other wash on
2nd load of actual washing has gone on.

Well i wrote a long piece about weekend and how I am feeling and then the ipad ran out of juice and I lost everything i had just typed this morning. aaaargh !

Anyway I discovered at Ladies Spa day at church that I was very stressed(been picking up on others stress i think) and then I went to our weekend and I have completely de-stressed. I cooked successfully apart from I forgot flour for gravy.We worked all weekend and had great fun too. Best tonic those lads, I laughed and laughed. The weather was unbelieveable and we a great view.

TA DAS for today.
Cleaned shower, basin (need to clean loo& empty mini bin of toilet rolls and rubbish.Kept under basin next to toilet. No excuse you can reach from loo.
Empty dishwasher.
Went to son2s for pick up.Washed his dishes (forgot he had a dishwasher and discovered afterwards that it needed put on) wiped worktops, cleaned out his fridge and washed all his shelves.
Posted cousins B'day card.YES!
Home
Clear & clean table. Yeah!
Cleaned out fridge.
Clean worktops, wipe cooker hob.
Sweep and then vacuum floor.
Wash floor.
Make lunch & load dishwasher.
Hang out washing, put load two in.
Sorted big pile of washing from Friday. Need to iron half.
Made phone call for someone else. Information gained.
Church now then two or three hours of school work to be done before bed.

Some amazing lists on here. Need pointy stick too as sat down for a bit and think i might have dozed off for a short time.

Hope lil zoo is ok. I have a Shaun the sheep with lavender /wheat zoo which helps sore tummies.

Hills sorry to hear not feeling great- hayfever? I've had runny eyes now block sinus.

Waves to everyone else.

Still in pain😢starts her FODMAP diet tom(I have money/can go shopping)

Hello all.

Poor lilzoo, hope she feels better on FODMAP diet . Also sympathies for finding the creature in your cupboard zoo .

Love the emojis with your links Cag .

foxes, I can completely relate to staring around and not doing anything. It’s what I did for the last hour really so am going to try to do a power hour now.

Lil zoo has a brass concert at school today
She is being double in pain
I suspect anxiety is not helping matters
She had practised so hard but it's looking doubtful will be able to walk the 30 minutes to school let alone perform with her class in an assembly I had planned to attend😢

The power hour thing is really helping me actually! I've done it a few times now and it's amazing how quickly it goes. I did eventually do stuff yesterday but no anti procrastination oops.

Oh no zoo

zoo is dp not availble for a lift if she wanted to try?

I'm sorry to come back and find Lilzoo so unwell.

I am so much happier at work. I have less time, but I am more productive because I have deadlines and structure. It's all going really well. I try to get lots of jobs done in the early morning and put a wash on each morning timed to finish when I get home. I'm more on top of the washing now than when I didn't work.

Garden work is starting on 4th June and I can't wait.

I'm going to retreat back into lurking while everything settles down and we find our new normal. It all looks promising so far....

Dp is at work ive" worked last night and there's no one else coming today til late(10)

Tada
Fed cats
Wash on
Empty littertray n bins
Sweep living floor
Sweep kitchen floor
Breakfast and pack ups for other two
Ring school absence line

Lil zoo is rolled up in a ball in bed....

Oh poor lilzoo :(

Hey cordelia that’s so great that you’re enjoying work! There’s a lot to be said for being more organised when you have more to do I think. They do say, if you want something done ask a busy person. I need to take a leaf from your book!

Change of plan today, Caglets are both coughing and DD especially looks really pale. I had a horrendous night with Cagletini, not sure what went on but she seemed to have tummy ache so barely slept. And I now have the telltale ache that says flare up is possible (my elbows always hurt first 🤔). So we decided to give trampolining and badgers a miss.

Amazingly they are still happily getting on with their work, I think we will try and do plenty of online stuff, we started Duolingo Japanese yesterday and DCs have been asking about Scratch programming. Also need to find some YouTube vids to recap the plant science they’ve learned.

Also need to do laundry. We are switching over to 6-9m clothes so will have lots to sort out! And also have to rethink the meal plan, since I would have eaten dinner out while Caglets are badgering, and DH will be home for lunch now.

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Currently waiting for new mattress & bookcase for DD's room to be delivered

In the mean time I have

Fed cat
DD to school
Small shopping
Changed beds
Slung bedding into washing machine
Dragged DD's old mattress out for bulk waste collection
Emptied old bookcase & also dragged out for bulk waste collection
Changed cat litter & put normal rubbish out
Vacuumed
Helped DH with packing

Checked delivery email at least 20 times.

To do
Fit new mattress & make bed
Build new bookcase & fill with dusted books
Fit new lampshade
Posting
Collect DD from school and go "Ta-dah" as it's a surprise
Dinner
Washing up
Ironing

I haven’t actually made it downstairs yet. Grumpy hungry baby. Sigh.

Caglets are having some tv time, this is a rare thing now during the day as they are ill! But they’ve done some workbook stuff, spellings and science. And DD drew a comic strip about somebody travelling back to the Victorian times. Random.

I’ve also downloaded a load of Japanese character learning apps.

Need to do laundry, will get DH to move it along. Might do nachos for lunch before DH goes to work.

i have a dust allegery so I am guessing firstly that and then hayfever will probably kick in too.
I popped out for a bit last night and got home to a note that said: please can you wash my pe kit for tomo. So it was late (well very early really think 2:30am) before i got to bed.

ta da
get ds out the door to school
take a nap

at the pe kit hills i would be cross

I've not done a thing indoors today and now I'm sitting with ds snuggled on my lap so I can't move...

Ta da
Made dd lunch and took to nursery
Dropped off a few bags of things for a lady near me collecting for charity
Posted parcel
Bought suncream
Put dc new sand and water table together
Dishwasher on

To do.
Finish daily routine
15 minutes decluttering kitchen
Cling film drawer
Order play sand
Pay bill I didn't pay yesterday and sort work thing I didn't do yesterday
Make cakes
Cook dinner (macaroni cheese I think)
Got meeting later as well

Aaaaaargh this is not all going to happen! I've got 40 minutes before I need to get dd so I'll have a power nearly hour.

I’ve only done laundry. Loads of home ed though. Actually our most productive day since this new structure so I’d call it a win especially as their concentration is off while feeling poorly. 9 bits done (some very small) despite a few hours of telly in the middle.

Bit shopping done and a nap......

Not my most spectacular flying day tbh!!

Tea tonight
Poached white fish.carrots.mash
Few(and really is only a few) blueberries

I am going to shovel bread after she's in bed.and cheese.and some veg cos I'm not an animal.right?!

Argh

Puking DS

Feverish baby

Send help

Or chocolate

😭😭😭

To be fair I've he had about an hour to remember and he needed to calm down after a bad day, then he was eating tea because I went out for the evening at tea time. He didn't really have much of a chance. It was done and he got up without a fuss this morning. Although he he doesn't stop demanding about computer stuff I might just let grannie babysit and go get some peace from it! By heck can he be one loud annoying stuck record sometimes!