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.

Some vaccuming has taken place, as the amount of pine needles was getting to danger point! I have made an effort to clear away the Christmas sweets by eating them but room still needs work.

Festive wing flaps back to Toostressy and to everyone else!

Bower look after that back; hope you are ok!

Back at wreck one after a very long but really fab day (long story; heading back again Fri). Like a lot of you on here, came back to a sea of wrapping paper and chaos which we'd abandoned this morning! Hopefully fairly superficial! Will follow Sass's good example and haul the hoover out in the morning!

Also, like many on here, feeling tired. Although so over-tired to my very bones right now that I now can't sleep of course!

Meet loved the bit about your DD singing Oh Come All Ye Faithful in the bath!

Hope everyone who is sleep deprived, Foxes Zoo, I've* and others , are getting some decent shut-eye tonight!

Forgot to say thank you for kind wordsBower.

And agree with you totally that we all need to impose rest on ourselves, as no one else will! The trouble with housework is that there is a never-ending list of chores, one could carry on ceaselessly, and we can become too focused on facilitating a hassle free time for everyone else and forgetting ourselves in the process. (Of course not at all easy doing thingsfor yourself or resting with little ones/lots of DC though of course.)

Hope Henny Penny had a good Christmas! 🐔

Thanks SCShe had a bit of roll as well as food. I need to go clean her out tomorrow. Hoping I can as back has been awful all day today like it can’t support me. Back to osteoporosis on Friday.lots of rest today.
Not allowing any dishes in sink. Just had soup tonight. Red pepper and tomato.

Meet Bless them that must have brought a smile to your face. It did to mine.😄

That's it I can't take the chaos anymore!!

We also appears to have eaten thru all fruit n veg in salad drawer in under 4 days(and our drawers huge)breads atcritical levels and only enough milk for breakfast.dp is off til Friday afternoon so at least I have luxury of not having to carry it all home!

Well, we blitzed the house yesterday morning, it was all fairly superificial. Then forced our way off the drive via a twenty point turn (the local hunt meets nearby on Boxing Day and it is a bit of a PITA as all the nearby streets are engulfed with inconsiderately parked 4x4s all morning) and made our way to DFIL's house for a relaxing afternoon with the extended family. Today I am hoping to meet a friend for coffee and am taking DS out this afternoon to help spend some Christmas money.

Bower - sorry to hear about your back, hope it is on the mend soon.

Stressy - thanks for the links and steering us through, much appreciated.

Morning all

Eldest dc is now throwing up

Oh the joys

I got sidetracked by lil zoo request to watch the royal ballet on catch up(swan lake)
Everyone's now fed
Off shopping shortly

I've oh no , I feel for you that really is rubbish.

Zoo ooh dd might like to watch that she loves ballet at the moment.

Well boxing day was hard work tbh. Nice at first to be at mils house but it quickly descended into chaos, there isn't room for everyone and the dc were just bouncing off the walls, more presents too much attention from everyone, it was far too hot, I was trying to be stern with them at certain points when they took it too far but others were just egging them on and then I could see people getting annoyed with them and I did think well maybe if you stop hyping them up they'll stop going crazy!! Argh!

Anyway, rant over! Today we are doing nothing! Still haven't caught up on sleep as ds waking countless times in the night and ending up in our bed because he's got a cold and obviously isn't feeling too good. Only one sleeping really well is dd who has been crashing completely at 7 and waking at about 8!!

Ds1 has now been sick 3 times, not keeping anything down. Praying no one else catches this. Also grateful it has happened when no work or school to miss.

Ta da ...

Dc 3 and 4 fed

Stick anyone? 🥢

Yes please.
Need to vacuum sitting room and clean bathroom.

Ive sorry to hear about the puke. Poor DS1 & poor you.
Meet thanks slightly better this morning. I ‘be slipped a disc unfortunately.
zoo munch munch munch! Sorry you have to go shopping already.
I have too much turkey I hope one of the boys comes to top up or freeze some for me. Going to note it down so we buy a smaller one next year. Having said that we were expecting at least one more around the table. Just family for the first time in years.
Foxes sounds like when we were at in laws. Nightmare. FIL used to give them loads of sweets then get a bit grumpy when they got wound up and silly/ noisy. Enjoy today.
Stressy thanks for links I need to get back on flylady. I gave up when kitchen was being done. It looks so lovely I can’t quite believe it is mine. So far no clutter as we can’t find tea canisters and we are leaving dresser because we need to move it to repaint wall. It has quite a lot on it. Might chose paint with DD on way back from osteopath.

I've over eating perhaps on chocolate?
Fingers X that's the case and if not he keeps to himself.qhen are you back to work?
Foxes it was just over two hours long,so she might need to watch it in stages?I googled the synopsis in acts so we could fully follow what was happening

Shopping done,was surprisingly not too busy
Get back to find zoolets in uproar internet's off!!bills due.no money to pay that anytime soon(at least a week) and they're climbing walls without it
Could be a loooong week!!

Oh no Ive and Bower .

I’m at work, will be on later.

Oh no I've so sorry about the puking. Hope everyon else does not succumb.

zoo I had planned to watch a bit with her while ds has a nap but she's playing mario party instead with dh so much for culture!

I'm trying to do next weeks meal plan and food shop but all of have is - bubble and squeak, bubble and squeak, turkey, chipolatas, more bubble and squeak...we have a lot of food in the house so seems crazy ordering more but we will need normal stuff like nappies and milk, and I don't fancy going to the shops!

foxes colcannon and turkey stew?
Sprout and squash/parsnip/insert root veg(roasted) risotto or tossed with pasta and cheese?
Chipolata casserole?
Soup of whatever veg in fridge?

Only left overs we have are few treat pudding/sweet snacks like mini battenburg,mini meringues and some biscuits in a tin no probs inhaling those

We have lots of turkey and only me here. Hope one of the boys comes for refill tomorrow. Reminds me I put stuffing in oven. Whew! Just perfect. I charred the chipolatas.

Watching From time to time seems promising. I’ve never watched it before.

Ta da
Vacuumed downstairs.
Two loads of washing.

Turkey and ham left here. The cat is very happy with her Christmas food. I’ve had enough of leftovers really but we had extra as had thought the in-maws would be here so it can’t be helped.

I also have an online shop ordered foxes; it’s coming tomorrow. My parents are coming and we needed stuff like milk and fruit although I haven’t bought much to make meals with due to all the leftovers! Also planning a meal out with them as they like to do that.

Good luck without internet zoo.

Big wing flaps to SC, Sass, Meet and everyone else.

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Links for December 28th:-
Beginner baby steps here
Launch pad here
Holiday clean up missions here

More info available in original post at top of thread.
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Hope all the poorly fledglings feel better soon - it's a grim time of year to be ill.

I have done what feels like lots of washing up today but then we cooked and ate again!

DD and I are currently involved in a Wii battle that is going on over various games and lasting many evenings. Still, better than just watching YouTube all evening as well as all day

This thread is like a little bit of sanity on MN at the moment, so many dodgy threads.

Hello everyone!

I agree Sass MN is batshit atm!

Waiting for my parents to arrive. Going to start lunch for the girls now anyway as not sure if they will have stopped for lunch along the way.

Actually caught up on sleep today, rather late breakfast but very nice. Still in nightwear, will get showered and dressed soon Have done some more washing up and need to keep on the laundry.

Feeling quite positive today though, and enthusiastic for the year ahead , time to start decluttering with a vengence. Perhaps head out to the sales later today. Need to get a calendar for 2019, have a lovely sparkly diary which is always fun

Hi all. Struggling today, really dizzy - I forgot my tablet yesterday FFS. Also had one very weird drink and now wondering if maybe I can’t drink on them at all? Anyway, room all spinny.

DD has gone swimming with a friend, DH and DS are going to see Bumblebee shortly. Couple of my friends are coming over, not sure I’ll be much company though 😳

Bit annoying as I really need to do housework but I’m in a right state.

Lol that was meant to say weak drink. Just one of those 250ml cans of archers and lemonade FFS 😂

Some anti dep meds you can't drink with them cag so it is a possibility, although it could be skipping a dose.

ta da
work
throw a strop about having to people.
go to bed.

And I am done for today. Just eating some lunch and I will be going to bed in the hope that I sleep through until tomo. - and yes I really am THAT tired.