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A warm welcome to the December (dare I say Christmas?!) 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.
We are a long running thread but always welcome new members; the more the merrier 
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The new slimline structure seems to work well so I will stick with that. I will leave some links in this OP and then some quick links in the daily posts. Please do familiarise yourself with the Flylady website, especially if you are new. The Flylady is (understandably) keen that people do look at the website.
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! Especially at this time of year.
A daily summary (which should update automatically every day) is available on the Flylady website at flight plan here.
The link to the current zone and missions is 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!
daily focus
missions for the week
Flykids mission
I’m sure I don’t need to tell anyone that it is getting close to Christmas so there are holiday missions here.
December’s habit is usually pampering yourself but has not uploaded yet; I’ll link it tomorrow.
beginner babysteps.
The best place to look for an overall summary is the launch pad.
Happy flying everyone.
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Also a huge thank you to SC for a lovely November thread. 
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Fledglings Flying Festively - the December Flylady thread
TooStressyForMyOwnGood · 30/11/2018 21:13
I don't know how but I managed to miss your post about your ds and you having such a bad night Dani hope things are improving
Never did car decluttering either until a former poster on here - Knitting iirc - posted about having wet wipes (or more environmentally friendly equiv) and plastic bin bags with you in car when you are dropping the dc off anywhere you have to wait - and using the time to quickly chuck out rubbish/wipe down steering wheel, dashboard and window interieurs etc. Killing two birds with one stone! (You could include a small dust pan and brush too I guess!)
Have a great night out Toostressy! And don't worry about tidying up for baby-sitter! You deserve a worry free night out and you can tidy up tomorrow when the DC and her have had their fun!
Enjoy your night off toostressy
Tada
Put dd2 banana squished into it for a joke blazer in for a quick wash
Cleaned sink and drainer
Filled very hot soapy water
Added most of washing up
Wiped down surfaces
Yelled for dd2 get off her phone and wash up
Yelled at her again reminding wants money next Saturday to go out to Frankie and Benny's with friends for birthday tea and money for gift for birthday friend needs co operate or I won't give her a brass farthing
Blazer hung up to dry
Dark load in
Turned on radio to drown out mutterings louder than under breath about child slave labour eminating from kitchen...
Cleared and wiped computer table,stacking belongings into respective piles
Ditto dining table,adding extra stuff to washing up which result in more complaining and indignant rage from dd2
Sweep everything on floor into a pile and sift thru for important things(add to piles) drawings etc ditched not put away hard cheddar
Locate kitchen floor from over flowing bin
Sweep floor/sort bin out
Locate hall floor (with assistance from lil zoo who neatly stacked shoes and hung up bags/coats whilst I swept it)
Yell for everyone come grab their pile and put away lest I love it all in a bin bag.i must be wearing my harpy face as appeared as if by magic and raced off clutching belongings with my voice ringing in their ears rooms are next so don't just lob it on/under your beds....
DS boy dungeon-
Got him to bag up laundry
Located floor piling things into put away,throw away and make choices whether keep it or launch it
Accrue carrier bag of rubbish,4of laundry one kicked out under his midi sleeper
Oh forgot...
Spray bath and sink
Lil zoo wiped out
Empty littertray
Got dd2 to refill it
And wash just been put in drier by lil zoo and first of two towel loads has gone in!!
Tea tonight
Free for all.expecting it to be cereal fir little ones as I can't stand on this ropey foot anymore today.dd2 offered put tray oven chips and veggie sausages in for us(lil zoo don't eat chips)
I feel bad ranting and making them help but at same time not babies anymore and need pitch in when I physically can't do it
Morning
The good news is I can put on leggings at least without feeling like my toe is being stabbed not jeans yet tho as they pull over my feet.i can also tackle stairs one foot per step albeit it with a dodgy gait and cursing....unfortunately I've been awake most of night with zoolets very bad throat which is making tubes in my ears feel hot and dry too
a delightful combo to be kept awake by not
Dd2 is also succumbing lil zoo slept one one sofa,me on other.shes back to a fever.ffs....
Tada
Fed cats
Bleach lav
Wash on
Clean kitchen surfaces from zoolets get themselves evening food(did have cereal and dd2 did whack in trays frozen veg,oven chips and sausages for us❤️)
Sort rest must do laundry into piles
Internet banking
Menu planning
Shop list
Do has decided to be helpful and offer to take me shopping despite working Friday lunch time til this morning(8am) and back there 230pm today til 230pm tomorrow.i suspect the ulterior motive is food related(I always feed him and send with pack up) but today I'm just grateful I've not got try hobble too far esp as my chest is really really tight when I'm moving[dodgy old person grumbling aches and pains emoticon]
Hope everyone else has nicer start to the day!!
Morning all
Night out was nice and babysitter was a great success .
I would very much like to spend a day in PJs watching telly eating takeaway pizza. However, in the real world...
Ta da:-
Had mini lie in so can’t complain
DH and I took DDs out on their bikes
Xmas decs are out of the loft and DH is starting to put the tree together with ‘help’ from DDs
To do:-
I am going to make some kind of quick pizza lunch
Decorate
General tidy up
Calendar check
Not sure what else
Sorry to hear you are poorly Cag; it’s such hard work being ill with a little one .
zoo, I’m afraid I’m inclined to agree with Bower. . It sounds worth a GP / practice nurse visit.
Another morning of getting getting up and on early enough this morning there is no to da list yet either. Still have all the things and his dog to get sorted today. But I. don't. Want. To.
Hi all! Thanks for links Toostressy and glad to hear you had a good night out.
Sorry to hear that there is still a lot of lurginess among us. The three of us are exactly the same - we either keep reinfecting one another - or this is just a very tenacious virus. Either way we are all plodding along feeling rather wretched as we have no alternative because the bug has lasted so long and things need doing!
Hope everyone feels stronger soon anyway
Ballet was lovely last night but there was an unfortunate incident at the end when a principal male was taking curtain call and curtain either didn't descend where they thought it would, or it malfunctioned, and he stepped back to avoid, and proceeded to fall backwards over "dead" prince on stage and clutched his ankle and then we didn't see him again. Poor bloke! Hope he's ok!
DD and I felt exhausted this morning but we all made it to mass but not to sausage walk sadly (but there will be another one next month and it was raining hard ).
I am in desperate need of a big jagged pointy stick ATM please as I am flagging horribly! Stupidly underestimated how much sorting there is to do for charity collection and I am only half way through the folding, packing and labelling. Clothes and soft toys are done (huge job). Have washed all the doll's clothes and Dettol wiped dolls pram, carry cot, travel seat etc. Next stop toy restaurant ... then book sorting in to three langs ... then bags and accessories.
Heeeelllppp last bloody thing I feel like doing on a dark rainy December Sunday but needs must! 
Also dreading the bit after they take everything away as although house will be emptier, I will be left with four rooms where it will look as though a hurricane has swept through. Every shelf and drawer will need sorting and reorganising again. Not sure I will be able to get it all done as well prep for Christmas; pisspoor planning and very bad timing on my part arrgggghhhh.
Waves somewhat feebly to all!
Thanks for taking on December Stressy, and many thanks for November SC - sterling work, ladies!
I am just back from a weekend away. Lovely to spend time in the big city again (London), now back home and enthused for December. Let's see how long that lasts again, shall we
Must get cracking with Christmas too, I think the only thing I've done is buy food
and open my prosecco advent calendar Because we were away, we are already behind on burning the advent candle too.
Hi Sass, prosecco advent calendar sounds great . You’ve reminded me, food is the thing I have done nothing about yet. No turkey ordered, need to buy wine gifts and have left it too late to book online shopping slots so need to plan when we will brave the shops . May try to do a big non-perishables shop at the latest delivery slot I can get - will investigate tomorrow.
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