Welcome to the December (dare I say the Christmas?!) Flylady thread. This is a really lovely thread where we loosely follow the Flylady system (see the Flylady website ) in the hope of having organised homes and lives.
Every day I will post a link to the launchpad which has everything you need for that day if you do want to follow the system strictly. Plenty of options to follow the system more loosely as well :).
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 not to 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!
Any newbies are very welcome 
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Flylady also does Christmas missions which I will link to each day. They are really useful and nearer the time she does super missions which help you if you have not managed the regular missions. They are just there to help and as Flylady says... do not worry as you do not need to catch up, just jump in where you are .
Link to the holiday cruising is
here
December’s habit is usually [[http://www.flylady.net/d/habits-of-the-month/december/
pampering yourself]] which is much needed this busy time of year. This can be as simple as taking two minutes to have a cup of tea, if long pampering sessions are unachievable.
The website will update to the December missions etc in the next few days so I will link it again if it is different.
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 [[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!
daily focus
missions for the week
Flykids mission
beginner babysteps.
The best place to look for an overall summary is the launch pad.
Happy flying everyone.
Please note that while there is lots of information on the website, from a security point of view we would advise caution with putting any personal details in or downloading anything.
Also a huge thank you to Ghoulette for the November thread.
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Festive fledglings flying through December - the Flylady thread
TooStressyTooMessy · 30/11/2019 15:03
Oh yes I feel the same 
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Mental note for myself next year: do not schedule putting Christmas decorations up the day after a work night out when you also have to help with honework, reading, a Christmas gift and cook a roast since you thought that was a good idea despite the fact that it will take DH hours to get decorations and tree out etc so you will have to cook the roast.
Ugh. Just psyched myself up to start the roast. Is it bedtime yet?
Should point out DH has been a Christmas 
. It’s me who is all humbug about it.
I’m also impressed with the seasonal bunting!
I got the washing and ironing done, and our bags packed for nursery / work. DH changed job recently and I’ve gone from having to iron shirts and dress pants to just folding work work pants and sweatshirts out of the dryer. Game changer! I’ve also done a general tidy about 5 times, sorted the Sunday lunch dishes (DH cooked) and put away some laundry.
Trying to motivate myself to stand up and make soup now. Will do some cards when DD is in bed as she will want my own to scribble on them if she sees.
No idea why I entertained the idea of putting together the storage unit. DH was absolutely not on board after his night out. Can’t complain, I wouldn’t be either.
I also briefly considered putting the tree up toostressy but was also too humbug. Original plan was next weekend to I think I’ll stick to that. Liking shannara’s plan of aiming for the 14th.
Did you get much of your huge list done SC? I think I would have to do what you suggested earlier and spend a little bit of time on each. I once saw a great method for when you have lots of things to do. You choose 3 or 4 of them, write them in a list then spend, for example, 5 minutes on each, 10 minutes on each, then 15 mins on each. Longer time periods if appropriate, and with a timer a la flylady obviously 
. I’ve used it a few times when I’ve felt overwhelmed and it’s helped me.
Launch pad link
www.flylady.net/c/holidaycruise.php Holiday mission. December starts the super missions that I may have a go at not today though
I've I am nominating you to keep my festive spirits up!!
Laputa wish I'd done books with my lot,fab idea!!this year girls have cheap Xmas earrings from Primark to open each day,D's and j will do a Xmas craft a day as he's home!dd1 hot them advent bits too.tiday dd2 got pin badges,D's a mini wooden puzzle and lil zoo a unicorn sparkly soap!
Tada
Been town dd2 "d"p gave us lift back in exchange for lunch(ham salad rolls ,nothing fancy) before he headed to work.
We got bits decorate house,wrap paper,few more gifts and did bit food shop
Back for food by 2pm
Tidy up a bit
Help D's set up his mini tree,add lights to his room and some little robin ornaments.girks did their mini trees and lights
Lights up in kitchen (snowflakes around windows)
Tree up in front room.realised it only 3ft as we needed it be able put up out way kits last year.decs bought today for bigger tree.looka like we need get a bigger one too
Little ones fed(Bolognese)
Dd2 have roast potatoes,green beans,carrots, courgettes and broccoli tossed red pesto and sprinkled cashew nuts(veg with bread and cheese for me)
Dd2 had a party last night and wasn't back til 11(dd1 drive her) she was hyped so was 1am before got to lay down.up at 430... Tired isn't a strong enough word on back of fact I've literally just sat down first time today!
Hope everyone's had a good weekend
I agree Expletive our house is quite large (althoigh we don't live in all of it) but somehow clutter expands in to all of the corners! Not helped by a distinct lack of practical storage.
Good luck with appt tomorrow Bower and glad to hear Mr Bower redeemed himself somewhat! He sounds like my DH in the food department, who is driving me mad currently. He's either totally absent (travelling) or is in to everything. No happy medium.
Crikey about your son's accident. That must have been so scary. Thank heavens he wasn't seriously hurt.
Wow to chair covering Willow! I bought cheapo curtains in sale to temporarily sort out one window.
Mercury I am with you following the holiday missions! Thank you so much for posting them Toostressy! I want to try and do a few festive things with DD too but I am not sure she is that enthusiastic doing them with me ATM tbh! She'd rather be out with her friends!
Zoo love the sound of your child-centred activities! Did your dd2 have a good time at her party?
KTCluck I did get a few things done thanks but not many of the things I was stressing about! One of those days when life gets in the way of plans (seems to be happening rather too much lately).
Thank you so much for methodology tips. That sounds like an excellent strategy and one I shall try and adopt tomorrow! I bleated a bit on the phone to one of my sister's (who is very practical and efficient) and interestingly she said something similar! I think a rotating "managed" focus will be calming, as I will know that I am chipping a bit off each thing ifyswim. That's the theory anyway
Only just finished sewing bits of DD dance costume for school performance end this week, which I'd forgotten about. (Hardly any costume making for four years or so since primary and then two in one term!). Also did chauffeuring of dd to physics tutor as I'd lumbered dh with the chauffeuring for riding yesterday (scary new route). Photocopied more of dossier until toner thing beeped and then spent 20 mins replacing it. But did buy office presents on-line with dh thank heavens so they are sorted! Yay! And also some other family ones. Think all my present buying is done except for one close family member. (Can't think of what to buy!) Dare I risk DH sorting it? (His side of family.) He will leave it to last minute if I do. Did x2 loads laundry and cooked a roast and brushed the furries and spoke to elderly aunt.
No tidying 
I'm with you on the formal shirt processing btw! Bane of my life! DH gets through loads as week. I sneakily send them out to be laundered half the time when he's not looking but got caught out once when the guy delivered them back and I was out! Oops!
Sorry for rambling. Drank too much coffee while sewing!
Cherry waves to all fledglings! Hope everyone has a productive week ahead!
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A very warm welcome back to Castlelough! .... Your NN seems very familiar indeed! . Can it be...? . Have I remembered correctly ...?
Oh yes, sorry for confusion, also (very stupidly) got lured on to Brexit thread so need to NC back again! Should know better by now!
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Morning all
I am still full of a cough / cold. Dd now has it too so i have had her up in the night. Gave her nurofen at 4ish, shes up with me now bright as a button but obv it will wear off at school! Cant decide if should send her or not.
When we moved we doubled our house size and yes you just fill the space you have with crap. Old house had 7 rooms. This has 7 just upstairs, 5 downstairs plus a garage / cellar and loft. Since baby was born i have done about 8-10 bags of clothes to charity, why i had been holding on to some of it i do not know.
Anyway. Yesterday mainly involved trying to reorganise downstairs after invasion of big arse tree. Did a few loads washing and put christmas bedding on all dc beds. Managed to read half a chapter of the uni book and supervised dcs with their homework.
Christmas wise i have bought all the dcs main presents and few other bits. Need to get stocking stuff. Finding it trickier this year as have three year old with me all day and he is very interested in what i put in the basket in shops! Managed get a good deal on the older dcs main presents (saved £80, £40 and £80 on those!) Expecting the present pile to be a fair bit smaller this year as they are all having an expensive main gift, i think baby will get mainly clothes or vouchers so will just be dc4 with a heap of plastic stuff!
Cant decide if i want a brew or not 
How about stationary expletive? Love a bit of stationary me
Made a brew. And toast. And ate some biscuits on the sly mwahahahaha
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Oh god yes, stationery IVE. DD's bedroom is better stocked than Smith's in town and she still asks for more for Christmas and birthdays! Expletive, stocking presents here have morphed into slightly practical things - new pyjamas, Christmas socks, chocolate, jam, chocolate, a book, chocolate, a silly present they don't know they want til they get it etc. DC3 is still small enough to get one fancy present from Father Christmas that he's asked for.
Now, bunting. I'm not Flying properly, I promise - my DM taught me years ago that an awful lot of lack of housekeeping can be disguised by open windows (fresh air!), some flowers and something to distract. Hence, bunting in the kitchen. The autumn bunting I made with DS3 when he was about 4, on one of those endless Sunday mornings when you've been up since squawk o'clock and need to fill the time. The Christmas bunting I lovingly hand crafted by ordering it from ebay .
Right. Off to start morning routine. I'll add more To Dos later when I work out what they are!
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