Fledglings Flying Festively - the December Flylady thread

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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 .

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.

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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.

I love the Playmobil pics zoo .

Here’s the thread I was thinking of:-
Christmas Playmobil thread.

Love pic.😀
It’s Christmas Eve argh!
DD should have landed off to text her.
Off to Osteopath in 20 mins.
No flying yet
Report back later.

How do people leave their 🌲🌲🌲shopping till now? 😳🙄🤪🌲🌲🌲

It is actually fucking christmas

Runs around

Falls over

Sobs

In laws not coming. Thankfully just sorted out childcare for the kids on Thursday. Must keep carrying on! Christmas Eve!!!!

Ta da

Washer on
Dryer emptied

Tada
Another load of washing done
Zoolets fed and watered
BINBAG of rubbish accrued and put out of zoolets rooms(bin lid at 90 degrees and I still have another carrier bag...may have to ask neighbour if any space in theirs if I can find anyone to ask)
Aforementioned rooms in chaos as piles of put it away,put out for laundry,decide whether chazza or bin it

To do
Shedload baking
Bathroom
Half living room still needs extensive decluttering
Wash all lower floors
Wrap dd1 and fiancée's gifts

ty zoo

Ta da

Washer on x2
Dryer on
Dry washing sorted
Downstairs bins empty
All dc fed

Hi all! Hope everyone doing OK (ish!)

Been at it since 8am.

Guests arrriving in 6 hrs and I have about 10 hours work to do in that time!

Thanks for posting lovely Playmobil Zoo!

Hills, thanks so much for offering to do January .

I've started the stuffing, the ham is about to be cooked, had a lovely bath, cleaning, hoovering, catching up on Skype.

It's beginning to feel like Christmas.

Ta da

Washer on x3
Dryer on x2
Dry washing sorted
Downstairs bins empty
All dc fed
Bedroom bins empty
Dc2 and 3 bedrooms tidy and hoovered plus all their washing away
Table and chairs all scrubbed
Kitchen swept

Glad you are feeling festive Festive .

Impressive list Ive. Only had to brave a couple of shops today for a few bits so I took the tin hats thanks Sass but actually it was ok. Good luck getting ready for guests SC.

Bower, I don’t know how people can leave their shopping, I think they are just less stressy than me!

Ta da:-
Crackers bought
Dishwasher sorted
Mid way through laundry
Ran an errand
Booked childcare for 27th

To do:-

Sorry post went funny so pressed post so as not to lose it.

To do:-
Figure out why boiler is not working
Lunch
Laundry
Prep tea
Deal with Xmas eve excitement
Possibly phone my parents

Tada
Chocolate candy cane cookies made
Gingerbread dough- in fridge chilling
Choc mini muffins made
Lightly spiced cranberry and apricot mini muffins--due out oven in a mo

2more loads wash done
Zoolets rooms cleaned,dusted

Bathroom
Tiling wiped
Sill,skirt and radiator wiped
Bath n sink cleaned
Windows wiped

To do
Wash floors throughout
Hoover stairs
Make mince pies,jam tarts and gingerbread cookies
Continue cleaning and washjng

Just realised kits are out of kibble so off emergency dash to shops.one has to have sensitive good so it essential!!

FFS good,not goid

FFS FOOD NOT GOOD

Ta da

Washer on x3
Dryer on x2
Dry washing sorted
Downstairs bins empty
All dc fed
Bedroom bins empty
Dc 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms tidy and hoovered plus all their washing away
Table and chairs all scrubbed
Kitchen swept
Landings hoovered
One of two expected deliveries recieved
Convinced ds2 to throw out a few bits

Oh nooooo at boiler breakdown! Shitty timing or what. Glad you got childcare sorted.

I’ve been cleaning the house with some help from mum and my dad even washed up 😱 I then realised I forgot my tablet again FFS. So now need to sort some food for myself before taking it, but I’m all dizzy. Caglets have wrapped some presents.

Playmobil zoo looks lovely
I have tidied quite a lot of the house and my kids have undone some of it. Changed my bed and tidied my room so when they come and open the stockings tomorrow in my room I can take photos and not be embarrassed

I am so out of practice with the flylad routines but a lot of the principles did actually stick. I do the daily tasks like dishwasher and washing etc and that has always been a good thing. I still do 5 minute tidy ups to. Will aim to start in earnest at start of Jan.

Merry Christmas all 🎅

Boiler is ok now I think woo hoo.

At least you’ve remembered now about the tablet Cag.

YY to I’ve tidied quite a lot of the house and my kids have undone some of it Eustacia. I think lots of us can groan in recognition at that.

Ta da:-
Lunch eaten
Dishwasher on
Tea prepped as much as possible
Sandwiches made for tomorrow for when we have hungry kids and dinner is not ready so at least we will be able to do a quick snack lunch if necessary
DD1 is making a list of what we need to get ready for Santa .
Card to DH from the girls written
Doing crafts at the moment
Laundry in progress
Put off phoning my parents

What was your mantra Ive? Something like
I am an adult
I make the rules
I am in control

Need to get back to see what DD2 is doing with these crafts and the cat is angling for a treat. DD1 is checking Santa tracker.

Time for I think.

More random bits of housework done. Including getting the spare (folding stroller for London trips etc) buggy out to clean the wheels and the little madam used it to climb onto her high chair :o

DS is getting really annoying constantly talking about the PS4. This is the main present for all of us and they’ve known for ages (we agreed to get rid of the ancient Wii when we moved with the promise that we would replace it with a new console at Christmas) and the last 24 hours is apparently hell waiting 😂😂😂

DD2 keeps talking about when she gets her toy smart phone tomorrow. She’s not getting a toy smart phone .

Aww Cagletini.