Flying high in July (or trying to!) - the FlyLady thread

[TooStressyForMyOwnGood]

A warm (or cooling with our current weather) welcome to the July Flylady thread. This is a lovely friendly thread where we loosely follow the Flylady system (see the Flylady website ) in the hope of having organised homes and lives.

Every day the thread leader (me this month) posts links and missions from the Flylady site and also some friendly (!) personal comments. This is quite a ‘talky’ thread but we try our hardest not to be cliquey and new members are very welcome! I will do my best to keep track of everybody .

Please note that Flylady is (understandably) keen for people to click on her site so please do have a look around the site and the links. On the website there is information for beginners. You can also sign up to the Flylady emails but we would advise caution as there are hundreds of them.

We post our achievements (ta das) and our to do lists and any other general chatter about life / flying.

Information on getting started: www.flylady.net/d/getting-started/

The launch pad is also a good starting place:www.flylady.net/c/lp.php

Fly stands for Finally Loving Yourself. The general idea is that short bursts of tidying / organisation are more achievable than marathon efforts. Flylady advises 15 minute bursts is effort but you can tweak this to fit your own circumstances.

Be kind to yourselves, jump in where you are and be careful not to crash and burn!

The first day of the month is Sunday. Since it’s a weekend there is no official mission or zone work, unless you want to of course.

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Here is the daily summary for Sunday (also available on the Flylady website at flight plan which should update automatically each day).

I assume we are going into zone 1 next week which is the entrance area. However this week we have been in the living room. The Flylady website can take a few days to update the zones when the month changes so I will have a good look at it tomorrow and Monday to see where we are.

The link to the current zone and missions is [[http://www.flylady.net/c/sp.php#missions here].

Re. zones, do what works for you. I don’t always stick to the zones myself and do what works best at the time, with varying degrees of success!

Spend 15 mins decluttering, or whatever you can manage, in Zone 5/ zone 1.

When you have finished decluttering, the detailed cleaning list (if you are at that stage) for Zone 5 is here.

daily focus

missions for the week

Flykids mission

Once I figure out July’s habit I will let you know what it is!

beginner babysteps.

Happy flying everyone.
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I was supposed to be making some allergy friendly food but a double check on ingredients this morning means that I have screwed up and need to by actual allergy friendly ingredients And THIS is why i double check as I am about to make... Poisoning guests is not to be recommended Ah well no harm no fowl...

Work, contacts, new ingredients, bed. That is my plan for today!

Tada cont
Breakfasts and pack ups for the girls
Wash hung up to dry
More in
Give D's meds,make him some toast
Wash up
Wipe dining table
Make start cupboard understairs

To do
Sort out ore of cupboard understairs
Tip run
Bit shopping - mustn't forget cat food!!

I'd love squeeze in a nap somewhere,I'm really really tired(hopeful)

Argh so so tired. Achy. Stressed. 9 days till the big move. Fucking hell.

I also seem to have been roped into a day trip this Saturday and staying over with family which I actually don’t want to do because it causes me such epic anxiety. But for various reasons don’t have much choice. I’m not losing time that would be otherwise spent decluttering as DH will be at work anyway so I’ll make the most of having other people to hold the baby.

Tomorrow we are going to have to seriously get shit done. Still not sure if family is coming but hopefully a friend is. Her plan was to paint but TBH even with someone else doing most of it, we just don’t have time to facilitate it, much as it would be nice to white wash some of the place. So it will have to wait.

Aaaaargh sometimes having people help is more stress than it is worth. Maybe I’m overthinking.

Things are rarely as bad as we anticipate cag

Cupboard understairs is as done as needs be.(binbag of rubbish/crap)

Dp sitting watching Jeremy vile whilst I finish bit tidying upstairs then it's tip run.
My life is so rock n roll!!

Aaaaargh sometimes having people help is more stress than it is worth. Maybe I’m overthinking.

Cag speaking as one in that situation now, trust me, you are NOT over-thinking!!

Good luck with everything. You'll do it! It won't be perfect. And it will be v stressful. But you will get through and it will be lovely and all the hassle will have been worth it

Hi all. We were away yesterday so got zero done
Cag I know what you mean about people not being helpful. When we moved from our tiny rabbit hutch sized house we couldn't pack because there was literally nowhere to put the boxes until the furniture was taken out. My sister came over to "help" and literally just picked up random things and said "where is this going?" And I'd say "nowhere right now". Then she'd put it down and pick up something else. Repeat until she finally went home. . In two weeks you'll be in your nice new house though

Zoo the school's insistence on seeing medicine boxes strikes me as quite intrusive to people's privacy. Obviously nothing you can do if that's what they insist on but I'm really surprised. I'm a teacher (not in UK) and parents send us in a doctor's note which we keep on file. Our government isn't interested in absences until they exceed 20 days in a year. Even then it's just noted, nothing happens. O taught a child once who missed over 70 days (not a typo) every year and who I had many many other concerns about. Nothing was done. (Child was eventually moved to a special needs school and placed with foster parents 4 years later. I often think what a difference it would have made if they had been removed at the age of 5 and not 11)

Anyway, sorry, way off topic there , that was a stream of consciousness

Ta da
Shower
Dressed
Made bed
S&s one bathroom
DW empty (DH)
Laundry put away
Struggles with baby to dress him - he hates getting clothes on but is fine when dressed
Baby spilt water all over himself 4 minutes later. Struggles part 2 to dress in dry clothes. He's currently asleep on me , wore himself out ❤️

To do
Tidy kitchen
Arrange somewhere to keep glass for recycling
Walk through of house, return random misplaced items to homes
Cut t-shirt into rags for s&s
Quick hoover
15 mins in kitchen as per zone instructions

Waves to Cassandra

Aw at clothes-resistant baby!

What are you going to be doing with t-shirt rags if you don't mind me asking? (Nosey emoticon).

Helping effectively is definitely an art which requires intelligence, tact and energy!

Cag/Cassandra I'm afraid there are definite parallels with teens "helping" as well. Nags eight times to have them move one thing languidly from table to floor and back again. Turn around and 30 seconds later they are back on the sofa plugged in to their phone again. Grrrrrrrrr!! I really understand why people give up asking because the energy expended to get them to do something is more than the energy expended just doing it yourself!

Oh sorry, do you mean s&s, as in bathroom cleaning? If so, that sounds like a v sensible use of them.

(Thought for a moment it might be some sort of craft I haven't heard of!!)

Ignore me, I have cotton wool brain today!

SC yes for the bathroom cleaning! I feel a bit weird using a cloth for cleaning the loo that will potentially end up wiping down the kitchen counter

I wish I had a hobby though, I'm not quite sure what I do with my time. Reading my kindle while feeding the baby seems like it shouldn't occupy my whole day

Hello all, at work, will be on later.

No flying so far today. Had a school visit with dd. My mum was round to look after ds. Ended up telling her about my friends husband and what happened and we both ended up almost crying and she even gave me a hug (my mum is not a hugger!) Feel emotionally drained now. Also saw my friend today , she is doing ok but it's all just so hard for her, she looked lost

And dd fell off her scooter on the way home and she really bruised her bum. Took her to nursery this afternoon but she was quite tearful .

Going to have and and regroup, deep breath, then get started.

Ta da
Washing on
Dishwasher on

To do
Finish daily routine
Buy milk
15 minutes decluttering kitchen
Today's mission whatever that is, haven't looked yet.
Dinner - red lentil Thai curry

Cassandra feeding my babies while reading or watching TV are some of my happiest memories - it can definitely take a whole day! It's bonding time

Sc even my four year old is like that sometimes, doesn't want to help , takes so much effort to do one tiny thing then I end up doing it myself anyway.

Oh yes yeek Cassandra strictly separate cloths all the way!
And agree crafts & babies not very compatible!!

Oh no, hope your dd is ok Foxes and for you!

Wing flaps to Toostressy

Ta da so far:
filled dw
cleaned kitchen surfaces
cleaned kitchen bin
threw some old pkts of food away
shone stove and sink
paper and cardboard recycling
emptied dw
emptied fridge and wiped down
big supermarket shop
tackled huge dining room table hot spot which is nearly done but not quite (no where to put stuff!)
folded dry washing
wms and td on
contacted gynaecologist and found she was on holiday so contacted stand in
contacted Lakeland about my new tea-towels that smell of chemicals even after three washes
carried stuff from downstairs upstairs
carried stuff from hall to basement
served lunch for all of us (rice kedgeree style salad)
chemist run
DIY shop run
sorted a few plans for next week
hung up washing on terrace to dry
2 more loads in
went seeking stray post in office

Currently doing huge sort of playroom/sitting room
Also need to wrap a load of presents and write and post a load of cards

Supper tonight = roast chicken and salad

Meant to say Foxes there is a marvellous period of time between about six and eleven years when they are past toddler strops and not quite having tween strops yet when they are actually quite willing, able and helpful

Mind you, having written that, I think I must have erased from my memory the endless nagging about showering, teeth brushing, hair brushing, remembering of gym kit, hwk nagging that goes on then too!

sc I'll look forward to that then! Funnily enough my dad said to me the other day that "I quite enjoyed you and your brother between the ages of 5 and 11..." Worried me a bit about what happens after that!

Wheres the stick?

Foxes

I've -------->>>>>>

Ta da cont'd/...
prepped two chickens for oven and put in
peeled two bags of pots
make chicken stock from giblets (wip)
wrote a load of birthday cards and found addresses
carried a load of boxes downstairs
stripped and made one bed
and decluttered school desk with dd!! Whey hey!!!!!!!

Only have to clear dining room table hot spot (again) wipe down, set ready for dinner, then prep huge salad, make dressing, hang up washing and I'm done for the evening!

Evening all
Tada
Tip run
Quick food shop
More washing
Nice nap
Huge pile ironing
Tea-cold boiled new potatoes with naice ham and salad for lil zoo.big salad with spicy roasted chickpeas and soy roasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds for dd2.hoping D's with eat slice naice ham in a piece of bread...

I want your DD2’s tea zoo!

So sorry everyone, was at work then had to go out with the girls to deliver a thank you card and then got home and hit a wall and CBA to do anything. Have picked myself up though and am ready to put DDs to bed in a few minutes.

I know I will regret this a few hours into the school holidays but I am so ready for the end of term!

foxes, hope your DD not too sore, it’s a painful area to fall on bless her.

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Cassandra, I agree with foxes, while you have a baby who is happy to sit and be cuddled then reading / TV / sitting is an excellent use of time.

Ive—————————> just in case you need the stick again.

Cag , such a stressful time moving.

Hills, good thing you picked up on allergy ingredient!

Big wing flaps to anyone else.

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Here is the daily summary for Friday (also available on the Flylady website at flight plan which should update automatically each day).

We are in zone 2 this week which is the kitchen.

Re. zones, do what works for you. I don’t always stick to the zones myself and do what works best at the time, with varying degrees of success!

Spend 15 mins decluttering, or whatever you can manage, in zone 2.

When you have finished decluttering, the detailed cleaning list (if you are at that stage) for Zone 2 is here.

daily focus

missions for the week

Flykids mission

July’s habit is swish and swipe which is a quick daily clean of the bathroom.

beginner babysteps.

Happy flying everyone.
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Just nipping in.
Do read the AIBU about the husband nappy. It is hilarious I nearly choked from laughing so much.

Ta Das
Dishwasher
Washing machine x4
Sorted food for long W'end.
Packed car. Sorted veggie box. Need to pack some clothes. Off for yearly church shindig inLakes.
Did some gardening, picked some black currants.
Vacuumed last night.

ta da
✅invited friend round spontaneously (I have major C.H.A.O.S. but she is one of the few exceptions)
✅made it to badgers/cadets despite being fucking knackered
✅made some arrangements for tomorrow and weekend

So nothing actually practical related to the move... argh. Tomorrow is going to be very pressured!

Hello all.

I must read that thread Bower! Good luck today getting stuff done Cag.

To do:
School run
Take cat to vet to get her fur checked
Prep for my parents visiting this weekend aaaaggh
Pick up DDs
Swimming
School open evening type thing

So another busy day with low chance of a Flying. End of term busyness continues!