Fledglings are Marching into March (and tentatively inching closer to freedom): The March Flylady Thread

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Welcome fledglings old and new, to March’s Flylady thread!

For any newbies who have stumbled across us, we are following Flylady’s housework system which is based around routines and short bursts of activity to try to keep our houses and lives in order. (Sometimes we follow it more loosely than others). Feel free to join us, the more the merrier! We post our ‘ta da’ lists for motivation (no matter how long or short), and enjoy some random chatter along the way.

The link to Flylady’s ‘flying lessons’ is here . Have a read, and if you have any questions, just ask. You can sign up for emails but be warned there are lots so most of us rapidly unsubscribed.

I’ll be posting links daily to keep us all on track. Jump in wherever you are, remember you are never behind.

This is a long running thread and we’ve developed some lingo along the way:
LOL = load of laundry
S&S = swish and swipe, a quick daily clean of the toilet and sink
PO3 = power of 3. When motivation is on the low side or you’re overwhelmed just pick 3 things at a time and do them
DNLMS = did not lose my shit
Ned = our mythical mate who helps with the laundry (hasn’t paid a visit to me for a while)
Pointy stick —-> = for when a fledgling needs a motivational prod (we can be gentle if required)
The naughty corner = a relaxing haven where we hang out when motivation is low, we are on strike, or we need a rest and some TLC

I’ve just realised that it’ll be around a year since our lovely SC came up with the idea of the Keep Calm Corner (KCC) to keep us going in these strange times. I’ll try and keep the tradition going with little snippets of happy stories, memes, questions and distractions. Any contributions welcome as we enter what could be the final stretch to some sort of normality.

Thanks to ED for being a lovely thread leader for February and keeping us (mostly) on the straight and narrow, despite being very busy herself.

Right, quiet at the back there, have we got everyone? Let’s head into March...

Yeah I don’t think every bit of the website gets updated Hope. If you click on ‘zones’ from the home page it has those dates but it says January! Sneak peek of the week and zones from the launchpad both say zone 5 tomorrow. Hey, if Flylady can’t make her mind up I say we can do what we fancy or have a day off Hope the review goes well.

Jealous of the shooting star Sing. That’s your for being productive today!

You’ve been busy too Mc!

😆😁 we'll go with what you said up. I'm doing the home blessing tomorrow but actually deep cleaning the bathroom/upper hall and stairs this week as all upstairs will be done then. Eventually I'll coincide with flylady again 😂

Oh I like that it's dress to shoes because I really need to start getting dressed every day. I've spent too many days not getting dressed if I'm going to just be at home and I do agree with flylady that I am less productive those days.

The rest of yesterday's ta-da's were
⭐️ ironing
⭐️ S&S
⭐️ another LoL. Unfortunately theres a big fire at the local tip so outside is Smokey and smells like burning plastic so I couldn't line dry it
⭐️ made sandwiches for DC lunch
⭐️ dishes
⭐️ went to the shop for my neighbour
⭐️ emptied kitchen bin
⭐️ made pasta bake for dinner
⭐️ more dishes
⭐️ cleaned dining table
⭐️ washed dogs bowls
⭐️ cleaned downstairs loo

I'm at uni today so won't get anything at all done before I leave this morning but the DC will be going to my DGM and they'll only get home maybe 2 hours before me so they shouldn't make too much mess 🤞

Morning all
Hope red/naptime on the mend
No major meltdowns about WiFi ....yet

Time to get up

Zoo weldone for turning off wifi !

Double- welcome back

Half goodluck on the upstairs deep clean

Nap and red.....hope you are feeling better.

Up the sea sounds lovely

Sing hope your arm is feeling better.
A shooting star! I have always wanted to see one! Magical!

Thanks Up for the shiny new thread.

Thanks Ed for being thread leader last month.

So I was feeling ill at beginning of the week with muscle and joint pains. Thought i will carry on. I felt better on friday. Had vaccine on Saturday felt abit achey. Saturday night was soo sore thought i was going cry.

Sunday felt soo ill all muscles and joints hurt in both arms and legs. Hot and cold chills like sing. Thought i will spend the day in bed. My four year old bashed into my injection arm so badly...i thought i might aswell get up and do breakfast, and just carry on....🙈

Oh most stupid thing I did was not to listen to the nurses advice to take paracetamol as the arm maybe sore and to take as needed.

Yestadas
⚡breakfast
⚡unload dw
⚡shower dress
⚡make den area for kids
⚡listen dh moan at kids
⚡dh takes kids to park
⚡feeling so ill but decided to move mountains off stuff to get 3 bikes out of the dining room as the mud was everywhere!
⚡moved a medium sized furniture out downstairs loo
⚡hoovered, swept, dusted a wet cloth wiped everything i could manage.
⚡bike now live in the downstairs loo
⚡pushed furniture upstairs
⚡cleaned a bike
⚡kids back, fed them lunch
⚡exhusted, want to crawl into bed- feel ill.
⚡finally took paracetamol
⚡took kids to the park
⚡1st time i hv been to my fave park in ages, i loved it and walked more than i thought i would!
Really want to go again. I dont want the house holding me back from going out to get fresh air and excerise.

🍒👋 everyone

zoo I hope it's not a war zone for you today (since it's clearly morning for you lot already!) I like the sound of all the pampering you did, and impressed you didn't reach for the junk food during all that stress

Ta Das:
🍀 Set up our bedside tables that arrived today (Sunday)
🍀 Grocery pick up order, ordered and picked up later
🍀 Painted more skirting boards, door frames and door
🍀 Moved the fridge out to paint behind it, had to sweep and wash the floor 🤢 so dusty & dirty
🍀 Skyped mum
🍀 Did some meal prep, shredded cooked chicken x2, cooked bacon, grated a bunch of cheese. I ended up cooking/ preparing food for over 2 hours
🍀 LOLs x4
🍀 Cleaned up kitchen after dinner
🍀 Rotated DW, DH turned it on
🍀 Got clothes out for tomorrow

DH managed to list and sell our ugly bedside tables today! She paid half of what he asked for, but we were just happy to have them gone out of the house. Not bad when we didn't even have to pay for them to begin with 🤭
We did also e-file our taxes tonight, took a while since I had a job change last year, but they are done!

Goodnight everyone 🍒👋🥱

Hazel - I will be honest P.A.Y.E. is my favourite thing about the uk. I am so grateful i don't have the stress of having to file taxes atm. I am planning changes that will mean this is going to be necessary but for now I don't Well done on getting it done though. And well done on selling the ugly bedsides.

It is morning. It is early. I am grumpy i'm always grumpy in the morning somewhere in stupid brain i did maths wrong so I have about 3 hrs less time than i thought I did. But i do have sausages for breakfast. Just sausages as I can't find the frying pan for scrambled eggs and we are out of bread. But still. I need to sort this chaos out. On a plus note I did manage to make sure I have clean clothes for today. Bonus is that they are also dry

Have a good one. sees you later.

hills good news is we always pay more throughout the year than we need to for federal taxes and get a return back. This year it's over $5000! A good chunk of that is child tax credit, where they give money for each child. Unfortunately we had to pay into state taxes, but it was less than $100 owed.
Ok, I really am going to sleep now

Morning! Thanks for the new thread up and thank you for February ED! I have been awol but signing in for the new month

We finally decided to get a new hoover because our old one really wasn't doing much anymore (it was extremely old!) Our carpets now look brand new! I'm so happy with it. I also got some carpet stain remover which is amazing stuff. That's probably the most exciting thing that's happened the last few days 😂 oh we did order the kitchen and have a delivery date of around Easter so something to work towards now to get the building works finished up.

Hope everyone doing okay.

foxes that's great news on the kitchen!
Hazel shouldn't you be in bed now?!

Tada
Cats fed
Wash on
Harpic lav
Wipe bathroom windows/mirror
Clean sills
Clean radiator
Clean bath skirt
All tiling wiped
S+s
Wash floor on hands and knees
Quick hotspot tidy front room
Sweep floor
Feed D's
Need go buy cat food as used last sachet this morning

Ooh what’s the stain remover foxes?

Hills clean AND dry clothes = adulting win for sure!

Aww yesterday Cagletini saw an old photo come up on my phone memories from the playgroup we used to go to on Thursdays, and this morning she’s convinced we are going there instead of nursery :( it’s still one of the most missed things for me, since lockdown 1. Can’t believe it’s almost a year!

Advantage to DD1’s healthy eating kick - I get scrambled egg and seeded toast for breakfast :o DH was up early and made it for us, normally she’s been making her own.

Sorry you’ve felt so crap dancing :( 💐

Morning

Ty for the threads up & ed

I might do better this month (maybe)

Actually maybe I should get DS some whittling stuff... they do it a lot at forest schools. Might be a dangerous disaster🤔😬 it reminds me of Lino printing too which I did at school and have always pondered trying again.

Slow start today, DS is curled up on the sofa! I should get him going on some work and then write his target list. Got distracted by a logic puzzle 😳😂

I’m pleased waders tbh, she’s eating much better. I am just wary about it being (or ending up) weight related or especially that she ends up feeling she’s “failed” if she has something off plan as being very typically black and white due to being autistic I think that might be a slippery slope. And selfishly I am concerned about the extra shopping, cleaning etc - kitchen isn’t that big! But then DH pointed out it’s actually not wasting food - a lot of her “picky” eating is about things not being just right and it’s often the convenience food like oven pizza that ends up being left anyway. So it’s definitely a good thing overall. If DS could only follow suit we’d all be eating really well. I’ll have a chat to her about longer term plans.

Morning all. I am still tucked up in bed feeling sick. Never usually able to take to my bed but DH doesn’t want to get it so I am taking advantage of that. Don’t suppose he is doing much cleaning but as long as there isn’t extra to do when I surface. I hope to get up later but just woken up. I was late going to sleep. Don’t know where I have picked this up from. I did go to butchers last week about Wednesday I think 🤔 could be the fish cakes didn’t agree with me. Doesn’t explain the aching maybe I am getting DH s reaction to jab as he didn’t have any bar a bit sleepier-hardtotell-

Sending good wishes your way while I slope off to naughty corner with naptune hope you are feeling better.

red hope you feel better soon
Sing dd2 showed me an anti tictok thing.chinese girls being measured WITH DISPOSABLE FACE MASKS (elastic to elastic)around the waist,and if didn't fit they were rejected as fat and uglyalso highly derogative hardly god's gift boys declaring average girls "fat cows I'd never go near" slightly less politely
I fear for lil zoo as she's very black or white thinker and hates feeling too full/bloated and picky with textures..glad we at least on waiting list for eating disorders unit

Forgot the tada!
Shop acquired
Breakfast(muffins toasted with marmite drizzled over the buttered)+fruit

More wash in
DS windows cleaned
Help make bed
Clean living room windows
De fluff cat tree
Add washable baskets back to tree(nelly residing in highest one INSTANTLY)
pull out sofa 1
Liberate cat toys
Find dd2 missing socks
Sweep and wipe behind
Clean around fireplace
Wipe and clean mantlepiece
Tidy drawers by my sofa,now top has planners,pens,erasers.2nd puzzle books of all kinds,colouring books and felt pens.bottom drawer scratch art,how to draw books and Hb pencil set

Sorted black box next sofa- now contains just couple books to read and hand cream,nail files so no excuses not to sit and do my hands whilst watch TV at night!

About to pull out ottoman of games and wipe behind(sometimes gets damp)
Then behind my sofa to do!

That’s awful zoo 😭

No real ta das so far - delegated reading to DH as I’d not caught up from last week, DS has done his exercise. I’m still wrapped in a blanket. Had our game time, DS chose sushi go and I won both games :o 🍣🍱🍙🍤

He really needs to actually get some work done though! I haven’t even made his list so will just be obvious stuff

That is shocking Zoo great lists can I have an energy pill please.

I have had my letter from NHS. DH says wait a day or two and surgery will contact me. My friend was offered Kendal, Wigan and Brighton😳which the latter is several hundred miles from us. Stay home🤣we had a good laugh about it anyway.

Had row dd2as asked (in break)to empty their bins in room and take that,plus a bag rubbish and put in big bin as collected today.i got attitude for asking pick bits that's were escaping out their door into fresh hoovered landing.i LMS and warned her I'd lamp her if keeps talking to me like thatlots muttering later bins were done.ds and I went shop early,they were still asleep til I woke both second time just before 9.i expect were prattling around tog til late

In need of calm I decided a soothing jacket spuds was needed,then realising only had 40mins til her ladyship has lunch break I cut in half,score and cook cut side down with lots peppers,courgette and red onion
Got bosh! Rubs in heron yesterday cheap so pop some chickpeas and the BBQ rub in with that(smells delish) and have some spinach left from lil zoo and D's pittas with spinach,toms and left over ham from yesterday

Hiya just popping on to let you know my wifi has gone down so might not be on here until it comes back. I hope you’re all ok💖

i passed

YAY HILLS!!! Epic win! Congratulations 🥳

Hey naptune hopefully it gets fixed soon! We will still be here when you return. I’ll probably still be on the sofa. 🤔

Yaaaaaay!! Well done Hills! 🍾

Hope you feel better soon Red, and hope you’re less sore Dancing.

Just popping in quickly with the links for tomorrow. I couldn’t sleep last night and then have had a very busy day at work so I’m off for an early night. I dod clear a hotspot in the living room
before I headed up though.

Tomorrow we are moving into Zone 1 and the mission is to sort hotspots in the dining room. I’m off the hook there because they are always DH’s so all that is required is a simple nag . It’s plan and play day too (Waders has beaten us there).