June's arrived too soon! Catch up with the Fledgling Fly thread ... .

[Scoopofchaff]

If you are strugging with C.H.A.O.S. (can't have anyone over syndrome) and S.T.U.F.F. (something that undermines family fun) then this is the thread where we (loosely) follow the step-by-step Flylady housekeeping system (in our own, unique, relaxed style) with lots of chat, support and wine and cake along the way.

This is where, from the first of the month (seriously, HOW is it June already?!), we follow – loosely – the rules of FlyLady [see website here ]. (Pls ignore Flylady's barftastic language, and we suggest NOT signing up to her emails as there are rather a lot of them. All the info you need will be posted here on a daily basis.)

Helpful info on getting started here.

We adopt a three-pronged approach:

-start or repeat baby steps

• repeat baby steps + do 15 mins a day decluttering in the current zone or area (yes, just 15 mins focused work a day makes a difference!)
  

and/or

• reinforce babysteps and do daily missions if you have finished decluttering.
  

[And if you are really enthusiastic and have finished decluttering - you can go on to detailed deep cleaning in each zone.]

The launch pad is the place from which you can reach most other useful areas of the site: here.

NB
This is a very long-running thread so we may appear cliquey but we really aren't! All newcomers, long-termers, lurkers and intermittent returnees not only welcome to join in but positively encouraged to do so!

Another NB
Start where you are at!. There is no need to worry about being perfect – perfectionism = paralysis! There is no such thing as ‘falling behind’ with FlyLady, if you miss anything, just move on and continue as normal the next day.

Any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

Happy Flying one and all!

[Scoopofchaff]

Urgh, need to face the mound of washing up from last night ... .

[Stilllivinginazoo]

Tada
Fed cats
Wash up my tea things from last night
Wash on
Wander over to (further) co op in search any more cheap nut butter

Got back to a text from dp not coming.have a headache

I now have to do food shop trailing zoolets in heat with three returns to the house as too heavy to do in one hit

I need to get school shoes for tom for lil zoo out of budget that more water tight than a ducks arse

Aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhh

[Bowerbird5]

Hhmm! Men! If you had a headache who would feed the kids?

Hills
I know I went away for a few days and there was 6 pages! 6! I had to skim read some as I was getting sleepy.

Just thinking about getting up.
Need to do last bit of sitting room which looks extremely tidy. Mags to put away that is it. Water plants in greenhouse. It rained twice yesterday so don't need to water plants outside. Sort sink area( went to bed without shining😱 And put away cake pans that I left to air dry. Should make a cake for today. Mass, choir then get ready for back to school and early night. Anything else will be a bonus.

[Stilllivinginazoo]

bower green men?magic fairies?no wait mum's aren't allowed to not do stuff.i don't have a get out clause

[Ivegotfamilyandidrinkcupsoftea]

zoo i feel your pain

hills i am determined we will make to 2 thread again this month!

We had takeaway after dc went to bed. I didnt wash their tea pots so still have those to do as well as breakfast

Ta da

Washer on
Dryer on
Washing on line

My stomach keeps making weird noises

[Bowerbird5]

Zoo yes it was said with tongue in cheek.😋

Mums have to be hospitalised before we get out of it.

Back on the iPad which wasn't connecting. So....🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏

🌸🌷🌸🌷🌸🌷🌸🌷🌸🌷🌸🌸🌷🌸🌷🌸🌷🌷🌸🌷🌸🌷🌸🌷🌸🌷
For those that need it and 👋 To everyone

[Stilllivinginazoo]

the sheep are cute bower

Round one done(heron) very disappointing tbh,already melting

Next stop Asda George for lil zoo shoes and Aldi...

[Ivegotfamilyandidrinkcupsoftea]

zoo 🍹to cool you down

[Bowerbird5]

I know zoo I was cursing connection wasn't strong enough. I was on Safari and tried everything. Switched to google and hey presto back on.

Have lots and lots on iPad 🐄🐏🐃🐐🐓🐖🐈🐀 a whole farm🐎
🍸🍹🍷bit early for these!
I was looking for a stork but just these and chicks. 🐧🐦

Baa baabaa🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏
Sheep have just gone past but she is ok for help this morning as son is off work.
Right better go and get ready as I have a busy day and son2 has just put spoke in wheel as he needs a lift to work as car in garage and trains not running. Means I can't bake cake and I need to get ready earlier drive to his village and then take him to work before I go to Church at 11!

[Bowerbird5]

Good luck with the rest of your shopping Zoo. Especially the shoes.

Have a great day everyone.

[Cagliostro]

Morning all! And welcome back hills

I expect we shall get to thread two if I keep rabbiting on about the house stuff 😳

We are just doing a bit of general housework until DH goes to work and my friend arrives. Won’t get anything else done really. I need breakfast.

[Ivegotfamilyandidrinkcupsoftea]

zoo can lilzoo not get away with none school shoes for last few weeks. So many at our school seem to be wearing brightly coloured trainers, or brown boots etc. They have clearly gone a bit lax! I remember few years ago no boots were allowed at all even in winter

[Scoopofchaff]

I am tired.

And I love those sheep and flowers Bower

Don't think I can summon them up on my main frame though sadly!

[HillsBesideTheSea]

Nope not here. Ds is trained to feed himself. He is 13 he is capable. Sometimes he doesn't want to eat what everyone else is having so he cooks his own then, some times he cooks for everyone.

Now if only I could convince him to help with the laundry more often...

Ah a 2 thread month is fine I was expecting May to get that way tbh.

The exertions of the week are starting to catch up with me. Starting to feel like I have lead legs and have been hit by a brick, breathing is hard. Anyone for a massive flare? No me neither, guess I am going to have to suck it up buttercup. At least we had fun.

Now to deal with that to do list plus my room where something has just fallen over but first coffee. And toast with marmite

[Scoopofchaff]

Did I mention I was tired?

Ta da:
walked furry
cleared up from last night (took a long time)
played hunt the school jumper
school uniform in wash
prepped white school shirts for wash
cooked eggs and bacon for everyone
cleared up again
dw
carried washing upstairs

To do:
church
pick up plants
tidy up plant containers on terrace
replant
friend's drinks party this afternoon [sob don't want to go]
sort out all the clean washing that is stacked up in the dining/sitting room
deliver small presents through letterbox to friend!
walk furry x 2
cook lamb shoulder with cous cous and roasted mediterranean veg
clear up again

I want to go back to bed

[Ivegotfamilyandidrinkcupsoftea]

I want marmite

[HillsBesideTheSea]

I took it with us on holiday, much to ds' disgust. He refuses to believe that it is good for people. It was a low effort food trip. mostly porridge pots and sandwiches and cereal. It made the few times we ate out really special.

Ds is still asleep he is one tired bunny, plus I was mean and made him get up earlier than he would normally for school on one of the holiday days. It took a while for him to forgive me

[HonkyWonkWoman]

I've started my first babystep! Polishing sink!
I did it last night before I went to bed (quite easy as new kitchen) and was lovely to behold this a.m. but I can't keep it up after every sink use!!
I'm in my sink about a million times a day!😂😂 I'll end up with soggy tea towels all over the place.
So I've decided! Quick dishcloth wipe after every use and polish every night.
Hope that will do, fellow Fly people! (Btw! What do we call ourselves) 😁

[Ivegotfamilyandidrinkcupsoftea]

My sink is rank

I do it maybe once a week

[Stilllivinginazoo]

I'vesadly ours is very firm with shoes/boots being black(not that she even owns pair trainers at mo as leapt up two shoe sizes somehow!!)new ones acquired.ballerina style with Velcro strap.they pretty cheapo flimsy just
need hold out 7weeks!!
I've bought some marmite cashew nuts

Finally finished shopping,fridge/frozen all away.still surrounded by carrier bags n zoolets now baying for food.we are all hit,sweaty ,grumpy and hungry.not a good combo.think lunch first,put rest away after...

[TooStressyForMyOwnGood]

Honky, Flyladt calls us Flybabies (and the children are Flykids) but I think we usually call ourselves fledglings although some of the people that have been on here longer may know other names. I gave up on Flylady’s shiny sink method I’m afraid. I couldn’t keep it up and was setting myself up for constant failure .

Ta da:-
DD2 back from party
Nice day out to a national trust place with DH and DD1
Both back now and the arguing started within about 2 minutes so have told them to sit and rest with a bit of telly
Have stayed off MN except threads I’m on and left a couple of threads as was getting sucked in. The time I waste on here is appalling (not on this thread but on mindless scrolling type stuff) so really have got to improve.
Laundry under control
Found PE bags for school tomorrow

To do:-
Wash sun hats so they are clean
Make tea (spag bol as we have the sauce already made in the freezer)

Later:-
Attempt early ish bedtime
Sort school paperwork and bags for tomorrow

[TooStressyForMyOwnGood]

Flylady not Flyladt!

[Cagliostro]

I can’t shine my sink as it’s a horrible yellowy plastic crap one that wouldn’t shine if you put a million coats of Teflon on it :( although that does make me think of yet another thing that might be good if we move... potentially new steel kitchen sink maybe? A small detail but it would make me happy :o

Had a lovely meal out with friend and then played Dice Forge (fabulous board game even if I’ve not won it yet). Need to stick another wash on really but DS is super stimmy and bouncy and I don’t actually dare leave Cagletini in his care even for a few seconds (DD is playing out), so it will have to wait.

Will be getting a proper high chair in the new house which will provide somewhere to shove her briefly. We only have a booster chair here as no space for a proper one, and it’s not safe to leave her.

[HillsBesideTheSea]

honky the story behind the fledglings is that there was a very long running flying thread on MN. It was hard for newbies to really get to grips with the system sometimes so some helpful soles set up the fledglings threads as a hand holding approach to flying. Both threads ran concurrent for a while, eventually the long running thread came to an end. Others tried to set up their own flying thread as they did not like the fledglings thread because they thought it was too clicky. They too eventually came to an end. We have gained flyers from both threads but our origins are different to both iyswim. I found the original flying thread difficult to follow, but have thoroughly enjoyed the fledglings. There are still originals about, there are many who are long termers who have joined along the way. Part of the appeal of the fledglings is that we know life happens and we hand hold and go off topic so it is more than just flying.

We were not flybabies because we objected to twee and tbh there is a lot of twee on the site that I avoid. Fledglings was what was decided on because like baby birds were were learning to fly.

Here endth the lecture on the origins of the fledglings.

[HillsBesideTheSea]

Tbf the story of the origins on why flylady got nicknamed the fat fairy around these parts (prior to the fairy image on the website) is more amusing. Although I do find it amusing that when flylady updated her site a good few years ago she adopted the fairy image.