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...

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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 💐 😘

Everytime i see the word power i think nap!

Me too I've

Head is still fuzzy, I should be doing all the computer things.I am going to do as little as possible. But I might get up and go find a nice quiet sunny corner in the hills to sit with a picnic.

I'm having a pfb starting school freak out today, just feeling overwhelmed by it partly because they have lots of induction days and visits with the preschool and I don't know if we'll be on holiday for any of the important dates. I rang the school and they don't know the dates yet. Our holiday is booked so there's nothing I can do anyway so worrying is pointless but tell that to my over-emotional brain today!

Ta da
Dishwasher on
Washing on
Lunch made for dc - last night leftovers of chicken legs potatoes and courgette and some cherry tomatoes
Went to toddler group with ds while dd at nursery

To do
Finish daily routine
Swish and swipe bathroom
15 minutes decluttering anywhere
15 minutes tidy dining table area
Anti procrastination

• check application for ds bank account
• fill out form Nivea sent me re their suncream and send back

hills picnic sounds nice- it's still raining here!!

foxes she will be fine! Some dc dont do amy visits, others do them all. Imo children used to preschool generally manage school ok

Oh I need to join this thread - have a week before I go back to work, having been off two months from being sick (pneumonia and sepsis and then pleurisy when I was recovering from that!) As such house has become an absolute state. I cleaned the cooker yesterday and am doing a sort out for a car boot at the weekend (finger crossed weather is good). Anything I don't sell I will take directly to charity shop as I just don't have any room to store it for another car boot. (No garage or loft). Have half sorted lounge but gave up at the weekend so need to do start on that again.

This morning I have:
Deep cleaned kitchen - tiles, worktops, cabinet doors, sink etc
Sorted out Tupperware cupboard (urghhhh)

Still to do:
Put a wash on
Sort out art and crafts cupboard in kitchen
Sort out all stuff that has been dumped on table that doesn't belong in kitchen/diner
Clean floors/skirting boards
Put rubbish out
Also aim to finish clearing out a corner of the lounge.
Put some stuff on Facebook selling group that i could get more money then selling at car boot.

Welcome thingy (sorry about the illness that sounds horrific) and welcome back strawberry!

Thanks for the unicorn love zoo I’m going to do different emojis each day 🤪

So jeffing tired today. Problem is I can’t sleep late once I’ve woken 😡

I think Ive I’m putting too much pressure on myself with the food TBH, I will calm down (ie realise I CBA) soon enough! She’s had avocado, mackerel and tuna on toast before and had cheese on toast today in fact. I was hoping we’d get away with not having to offer food at every meal but noooooo. She was very angry this morning until DH offered her a babycorn 😂

Anyway today has just been laundry washing up and a decent amount of home ed.

Hey all,
This morning I managed to

general tidy up
wash dishes and put away
wipe down kitchen tops
hoover downstairs
make the beds
bleach both loos

If I were not a slacker I would do some ironing before the afternoon school run but i'm a slacker so i'm gonna chill out for half an hour and catch up on the internet.

Ta da
Daily routine
Forms filled in ready to send just need an envelope
Dusted the dining table including taking it apart to do the middle section, wiped all the tablet mats properly

To do
15 minutes decluttering anywhere
Swish and swipe bathroom
Check ds bank application
Cook dinner - jacket potatoes beans, cheese / tuna mayo
Babysitting for friends two kids later (I'm not looking forward to it apparently the little one isn't sleeping at the moment!)

Thanks ivegot I'm fairly confident she'll be ok I just seem to be having a panic about it at the moment , hate not knowing when and where stuff is happening!

foxes i am suprised they dont have dates tbh, i should imagine it will be soon. I think dd did her visits over May and June

Yeah they said they were nearly sorted with them but I'm guessing they are waiting for all the forms to be back and the deadline for that is next week I think. I've got to drop some paperwork in tomorrow so I'll ask again since they never called back. Tbh the holiday is booked and can't be changed so not much we can do but we were thinking of booking a few days away in June so want to at least avoid it then. It's the induction for the children and parents that i really want to go to as apparently lots of info for the parents given on that day...my friend said I needed to take a notebook surely it'll just be times, uniform...?

Ta da
Swish and swipe bathroom
Moved all paints into utility room so dc can't take them themselves anymore!! , Sorted through ds books (need to dust the drawer though, made me sneeze, perhaps tomorrow!), took all the hangers out of ds wardrobe as way too many.

To do
Dinner
Babysitting later
Ask dh about ds bank account

We are descending into the witching hour here...dc are fighting might be time to switch the TV back on.

Our holiday is booked for July but before end of term. Her preschool teacher said usually after may half term so I'm hoping June some time and then I can book the other few days away once I know. Trying to get last few trips outside of school holidays in while we still can!!

Anything important we were given on paper

We also missed the induction evening and all the written info was given to us in an envelope

Alot of the info will be on school website (if it has one)

Thanks ivegot you have reassured me - I'll stop worrying! My friend scared me a little!!

strawberry. consider ironing a swearword queen of slothfulness god bless my tumble drier.it stops,I fold it,put away and zoolets crease it up rummaging for particular items

Cat to vets-shes really pleased with progress so staying on half a steroid daily.check up in 3months

Pick up lil zoo from school en route vets after they rang.her tummyaches worsening.rang gp.got app for tomorrow afternoon

Had call from dd2 (on mobile didn't know hers been confiscated for attitude/language)the nature path that was floodings now blocked to public access so she's got to walk home long way round.school finished an hour ago.not back yet.....she's going to be in glorious temperament

To clarify,on a mobile I didn't know As I confiscated mobile because if attitude language(tired and jibbering baloney😁)

Have just taken fly lady advice (I know! What?!) for the move more in May thing...danced like a maniac to disco music with the dc and threw them in the air a lot , I am sweating , much more fun than going to the gym I am definitely building that into my daily routine!

Today I went to see the new Avengers film.

I have also done:

Beds
Fed cat
DD to school & back
Posting
Put away veg box delivery
Did my 10k steps
Dinner

Now about to go out to crochet class

What did you think goth? We saw it at the weekend. I was a bit underwhelmed but think I just wasn't in the right frame of mind for it!

I'm at my babysitting destination...they've left me snacks, is it the done thing to scoff the lot?! I'm too afraid to make any noise though and wake any small person!

Good luck with the babysitting! I’d be annoyed at the late dates for meetings etc but agree the info will be handed out anyway. Our infant school gave us a parent handbook which had everything in alphabetical order!

DD’s throat is the same thanks zoo it’s bugging her at times but it hasn’t changed. I am pretty convinced it’s an ulcer really but just further back than you’d expect. Not heard anything from the doctor yet.

DH had some weird blood results back though :( they have made a non urgent telephone appt, so it can’t be anything terrifying if it’s not urgent right? I’m hoping it’ll just be something they’ll prescribe tablets for, as they don’t need to see him in person?

ta da
✅home ed including making a Shakespeare activity. Woo!

Errrm that’s pretty much it. Lazy day. DH did stuff.

Could be like mum where some of the results were a bit off and they want her to go in for a retest of bloods in a month. So yes, if they have made a non urgent telephone appointment there is no reason to fret. you still will but if it was urgent they would deal with urgently

Morning. I never got back yesterday.

Yesterday
Ta Das
3 loads of washing done and hung out.
Cleaned kitchen. Worktops, cooker, unloaded dishwasher, reload.
Wash all plastic for school and bag. Don't forget to take it!
Clean out chicken and reset fence!
Sorted birthday cards for the month. Getting better at this since Fly lady anti procrastination day. I actually almost look forward to sitting and getting those paperwork jobs done. Opened bank/ building society letters to get a lovely surprise. Less owed on mortgage than I thought. This is house DS2 moved out of and DS 3 is still living in. I was left some money years ago and decide to help DS 2 get on housing ladder. Put £14,000 down and only have five more years for it to be paid up. I did charge them rent but reduce rate and we had lodgers in for a bit.

Went to bank.

I didn't get the rest done as I went to town with friend and her DS. It was meant to be an hour but he was in bank for ages. We realised we could have gone for a coffee. We wandered around nearby. But I didn't get back till nearly three. I then bumped into someone from village who gets a bit lonely so we had a chat in sunshine till neighbours granny arrived for grandchildren pick up and I had to grab keys and shoot off fo staff meeting. It was long and difficult so came out feeling a bit Bleugh! Went to pub for quick drink. Mistake as bumped into lad from next village and we stayed for hic quite a while. I slept well!
Not such a productive day as I had planned.
Need to jump up and do a few things before school.
Bathroom
Water plants( not house plants I have also killed most of mine except kitchen window ones).
Pack car
Have breakfast. Feed hen.
Go to work.
Come home, cup of tea, fall asleep!

Hills sorry to hear you are still unwell.

Welcome newbies. You sound like you will fit in well.😄

I am sooo tired.no idea wtf the matter with me.feel like body's made of lead

Hi drama yesterday.after took dd2 90 mins to get home because of water leak we went to investigate possible alternate routes.by time sorted solution(which involves wearing wellies and going down an alleyway but then adds just 15mins to route)I had lost will to live.will post photo in mo....

Tadas
Cats fed
Littertray
Wash on
Bleach lav
Empty bins
Breakfast and pack ups for D's n dd2

Lil zoo up with pain til gone 11.curled up in bed drawing now.doctors later(4pm)
Cag if it was urgent DH would be called in.hope DD is better too

Erm slight water leak!!