FLYbabies,Day 31......Well done!!!

[Jas]

Day 31
Reminders

Last day today. We are in the master bedroom this week. Here is today's mission

And here is todays regular FLY thread, so youcan check us out. Tomorrow I will link there only.[ My babies areall grown up

Hello and well done too, to us all

My routines are back on track so I am very grateful to FLY for that. My Dh followed my control journal pretty much to the letter yesterday ...he did most of my afternoon and evening routine for me!!!

We are all full of colds here...very grim...I'm exceedingly grateful to Dh this morning!!!! I'm also dead chuffed that he actually read my routines and did them!!! Makes it all worth while!

Well I look forward to having you all over on the regular FLY thread now

See you there xx

Morning Guys.

I'm not doing too badly. It's a bit tricky with sick baby but I now have my routines written out. I just went to find my morning routine and found I've done everything except for no 2, 10 and 11.

Morning routine

1. Make bed
2. Swish & Swipe en suite bathroom
3. Put a wash load in
4. Empty dishwasher
5. Feed cat & fish
6. Check calendar
7. DRINK SOME WATER
8. Clear away breakfast things
9. Think about what you want for dinner - take out meat if necessary.
10. 2 minute hotspot
11. 5 minute room rescue

I have to sort my stairs out later as there are lots of things requiring homes there so that will be my hotspot.

Mission is also a tough one for me

Morning routine

1. Get me and girls washed and dressed incl. DD1's hair and my make-up
2. Breakfasts and clear away and drink water
3. Load and unload DW - DONE
4. Shine sink, wash up and sterilize bottles - DONE
5. Sweep kitchen/dining room and wipe surfaces - DONE
6. Start WM - DONE
7. Make beds - DONE
8. Empty litter tray - DONE
9. What's for dinner?
10. Take DD1 to nursery and onto a friend's house for tea

Afternoon routine

11. Make lunch and clear up and drink water
12. Mission
13. 15 mins decluttering
14. hotspot
15. Errands: call a local nursery; supermarket for wipes and soap; call friend * 2
16. DD2's physio
17. 15 mins somewhere: dust, and clean doorhandles/light switches
18. Hang up wet washing/put away dry
19. Collect DD1 from nursery then DD2 to library if not raining

Evening routine

20. Tea for DDs
21. Bath DDs and put them to bed
22. Swish and swipe
23. Tidy toys
24. Put out clothes for next day
25. Pilates
26. Load DW/clear up/feed cat and drink water
27. Admin job: find an ethical CTF; register for Nectar
28. Read my book

I find hoovering really tricky to fit in as both mine are terrified of the Dyson!

Morning

Up and dressed - Done
S&S - Done
Make Beds - Done
Empty Dishwasher - Done
Breakfast - Done
Wash Breakfast Pots
Hang Out washing/washing in dryer - Still in washer
Sort out lunchtime meal Done

Beer - My LO is scared of the hoover too. I can not believe that we are all grown up - pmsl. Now I am a true fly and not a maggot anymore .

My boys are still not well and had me up most of the night. Hope there is a hospital on the grown up thread

Jst bookmarking for later....I hope I feel better soon or I will need to start baby steps again as I havn't done a proper full routine for over a week.

Don't like the sound of "We are going to work on major decluttering in every Zone through the end of October"....I don't want to throw things away....

LOL at the thought of us being Maggots....Larvae is a much more polite term....

Not sure if they will let us on the main thread if they know about the hospital

SMS - I know what you mean, until now I have just moved it round the house and the spare room looks like a war zone

i wanna stay a baby wawawawawawawawawa

I will try to be more polite, I am somewhat of a frank northerner. Tend to call a spade a spade type of thing

harleyd larvea (or maggots) don't have arms to flap...legs yes but arms no....

lol, too true

well if they had arms, i would be flapping them!

I'm quite serious about changing my name so that I can continue on the babysteps! It's very scary, graduating to the big-Fly thread.

Morning
1 Get me and girls up, dressed, breakfasted DONE
2 Pack school bag, incl lunch DONE
3 Clean bath whilst in shower DONE
4 Clean tiles DONE
5 Clear up DONE
6 Write up day's to do list while feeding DD2 DONE
7 Swish & swipe DONE
8 Clothes into WM DONE
9 Clothes into TD
10 Sort out tea DONE
11 5 minute room rescue
12 Mission

Afternoon
1 Make tomorrow's lunches for DH and DD1
2 Iron, put clothes away
3 HOTSPOT
4 Make after school snack
5 Pick up DD1
6 Hoover downstairs
7 Prep tea
8 Tidy livingroom
9 Make tea

Evening
1 Tidy kitchen, sweep floor, start DW, shine sink
2 Get DD2 ready for bed
3 Get DD1 ready for bed
4 Put out clothes for tomorrow
5 Swish & swipe after toothbrushing
6 Into bed with David Nobbs

My other mission today is to go through all of DD1s toys and bin anything broken/horrible.

Well they are staring another babysteps thread...I don't think anyone would blame you if you wanted to do it again...it would help reinforce the routines

Are they....I missed that

here

i love babysteps, i cant believe how well organised i have got in such a short space of time!

I just saw the new babysteps thread

Going back on the big one...come on, join me. We can always do babysteps too if we feel overwhelmed

Hello fellow grublings .

Morning routine all done.

DD2 was awake half the night so she's having a long nap today which means I'm storming through the afternoon routine. On balance I'd rather she slept at night tho.

She ended up in our bed from 1am which NEVER happens in our house. I quite liked it actually, all the little snuffles and snorts .

Afternoon routine

11. Make lunch and clear up and drink water - DONE
12. Mission - DONE
13. 15 mins decluttering - DONE
14. hotspot - DONE
15. Errands: call a local nursery; supermarket for wipes and soap; call friend * 2
16. DD2's physio
17. 15 mins somewhere: dust, and clean doorhandles/light switches
18. Hang up wet washing/put away dry - DONE
19. Collect DD1 from nursery then DD2 to library if not raining

Well done to you and all the others Jas.

I signed up with your thread originally but didn't keep up (illness). Have now joined the new baby-steps thread.

Out of interest - now you've done 31 days - has it really made a difference to your lives?

Is it hard to keep up? What are main pitfalls/things to watch out for? What do you do if you or one of the dc are ill?

Thanks for any tips

It does make a difference yes. Things like unloading the dishwasher and putting the washing machine on become 2nd nature so you do them every day and dont fall behind.

Doing babysteps is great but try and stick with the pace. It seems slow but i think it is like that so that the repetition sticks. If you rush through it you are less likely to bennefit.

My DH has noticed and also helps as he likes to keep things tidy if they are already tidy. if that makes sense. If they are mess in the first place then he just adds to the mess.

Yes it deffo makes a difference.

The FLYbaby scheme is designed so that you only actually add something new to your routine every 3-4days. If you are ill you soon catch up (I hope).

I have found the baby steps a godsend. You do things automatically and cleaning is not as much of a chore.

Our house it still too cluttered, but generally now I would not feel embarrassed if someone dropped round early in the day unexpectedly.

And when we have visitors there isn't any need to clean frantically before they arrive!

It's nice feeling more in control of things.

Have become a bit obsessed with my to do list though.