Fledglings May 2021 thread: MAYbe we’ll keep our routines going as the outside world opens up 😊

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Welcome fledglings to May’s Flylady thread – many, many thanks to ED for her expert guidance through April 2021.

All are welcome and especially Newbies. Don’t be shy in making yourselves known because we are a friendly bunch.
We follow Flylady’s system for house and sanity maintenance which is based around 5 room zones spread over the month. There is a weekly quick home clean in the midst of more thorough zone cleaning. I am an aging fledgling who really should be more proactive about following the plan but to be frank I enjoy the natter and good company more than I enjoy cleaning. Every day I will be checking in and giving the ‘flight plan’ for the day with links to the Flylady site. You can join Flylady on her site for email updates but she does like to send a lot out, just so you know!
The most importantist thing to know is that you are NEVER behind – just do what you can when you can. Many of us post ta da lists as we cross items off our [never-ending] to do lists.
You may find the following acronyms along the way (adapted below from ED’s useful list from April)
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
Pointy stick —-> = for when a fledgling needs a motivational prod
The naughty corner = a relaxing haven where we hang out when motivation is low or when life becomes overwhelming. Usually enticing food is left there with squishy cushions.
KCC – (Keep calm corner) these are little stories, photos, memes, off-topic questions, just to keep us all distracted from the general tedium of lockdown life. Feel free to chip in.

Ugh! Now signing/ closing won't happen until Monday, and that's as long as our buyers lender gets the paperwork submitted on time 😡🤬
I'm taking Monday off work, along with DH, as well as both of us off on Tuesday, so that'll be 4 days of packing and moving including the weekend. Sunday is mother's day over here, but no relaxing will happen.

mc an epilator sounds interesting. How much pain/ what type of pain are we talking? I could do without shaving my legs 2-3+ times a week, so might be worth a look.

I really was going to add more personals, but it's getting late and I'm sleepy 😴
Shower time then bed 🍒👋

Oh hazel how frustrating
Willow🍀for D's interview!
mine eat tinned pilchards,arguements between D's wanting brine,lil zoo tom sauceboth eat salmon and tuna.one doesn't like smoked fish

Zoo- sending you a hot water bottle. Hope your dd is ok. Ibs is horrible.
Foxes- its alot doing a renovation and little kids. Little kids are hard enough just on their own. You are doing amazing.
Hazel- oh no. Fingers crossed all paperwork get done as soon as possible. Sending you goodluck for all the packing.
Sing- love hearing that you found your paperwork so quickly in your organised folder! How did you copy the the DBS did you take a photo and upload it?
Ahh, nice you dont have to take Dd to nursery today.
Wellies- wow super organising and tax filing and wow....

Back in a bit.1🍒👋

Hazel how tedious with the paperwork. Hoping the end is in sight. Re pain, think waxing but more broken down. I find if you keep the skin taught when doing it and after one or two passes you get used to it and it's not too bad. I only use it on legs. I tried doing my pits and other bits, but it was too painful for that. Legs are much, much better. I can recommend getting the epilator with more pinchy things, gets the job done a lot faster.
Zoo hope you and LilZoo feel better soon.
Sing hope you got some rest.

Morning! 💐 for poorly and exhausted people and anyone whose day needs brightening.

I woke up this morning thinking "hooray! I have no fixed points in the diary for me, I can get lots done"... Then it all unravelled. I must now fit around:
🧙 Dog walk due to DH's 9 am call
🧙 Being maths TA 9-10 as area of triangles is difficult if you can't manipulate images in your head
🧙 Getting DD onto a bus 10.02
🧙 Ikea parcel of DS3's new bedding arriving 9.26-10.26
🧙 Exercise my democratic right with DS2 at 11am so he can go school for 11.30
🧙 Go to Tesco, fill DS2's car up, collect prescription, buy foodstuff that only come Tesco, park car outside school for DS2 to go to work in, before 2.30
🧙 Parcel of tea arriving 4.15-5.15
🧙 Mop kitchen floor
🧙 Tidy utility room
🧙 Sort out tea

Where the hell has my day gone?

So annoying hazel. Hope you get moving soon. Zoo hope you two are feeling better. Am having coffee. Will post today's links soon. It's errand day, I can tell you that though!

Ugh willow I hate that feeling when freedom is snatched away from you as you have so much else to do... and it’s generally for the kids too, rather than ourselves!

My lie in didn’t happen. Cagletini was awake earlier than she had been the last two days but it was nice not to have to get up anyway. I’m not even doing the nursery run ATM, I am not leaving the house most days. I am meeting a friend with our boys for an hour in the park though so hopefully the gentle walk plus fresh air will do me some good.

We’ve had a busy morning. I was taking my meds when I realised my escitalopram wasn’t there (tiny tablet). I’m really careful when sorting them for the week but either I dropped it on Saturday or miscounted, or dropped it this morning. Anyway we had a bit of a panic clean and then I got on with some other stuff, so quite a productive morning.

ta da so far
🟣tidied and dusted corner behind sofa
🟣sofa diving
🟣emptied and anti bac sprayed meds cupboard
🟣bagged up unopened vitamin boxes and put them at the back of the cupboard
🟣sorted trays of painkilling/general medicine like throat sweets, and DD1’s/my weekly stuff (DH’s are on the top shelf so that’s his domain)
🟣hung up clean towels
🟣hung out picnic mat to dry
🟣last night’s LOL in dryer
🟣filled and ran DW (didn’t bother last night after takeaway dinner) helped a little by Cagletini
🟣decluttered old plastic weaning spoons (why did we still have those?!)
🟣brought down used flannels from bathroom
🟣sprayed/wiped kitchen counters
🟣scrubbed toaster and kitchen scales (really would’ve been more sensible to do this before wiping the counters...)
🟣started fractions with DS (now hovering while he continues)

I REALLY need to get on with my second assignment as well. Tutor has gone AWOL?! I never heard back about my first one and it definitely submitted on the system. And it’s not just that I’ve passed it because once you pass you still have to fill in a comment etc to get the unit signed off. I don’t know this tutor yet but she seemed nice on the zoom meet and seemed like she’d be more involved as she even said we’d have another zoom call halfway through the course, which my other tutors didn’t do. So to not get in touch at all is weird. I’m not feeling especially assertive today so I think I’ll email when I submit unit 2, and see what happens

babystep6

today

The month of May is about moving - I don't know about the rest of you but I do need to move more.

it's democratic right day which when paired with a constitutional will tick the box for moving!

Tadas today...
🍉Dw unloaded
🍐Breakfast things put away
🍊Stress/weary look at sitting room floor...its gone again. Give up.
🍋Dark sch clothes lol.
🍎Read/write take bp meds. Phone call.
🍏Brunch
🍇Tidy kitchen
🥑White sch clothes lol
🥝Make dh a filling lunch
🍓Pick up kids
🍍10mins at park
🥕Home and shower kids and put into a bubble bath they love it.
🍏Feeling tired.
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Well done Dancing. I have done a day's work here. DH is making dinner and then there is soccer. Am pondering a walk in nature later. Have rotated the laundry but we need to hoover.

Tada
Cat trays scrubbed and refilled
Swept lower floors
Lil zoo walk to school later as not doing p.e at mo
S+s
3LOL wash,dry and put away
Make D's lunch/pop some in fridge for lil zoo when gets in(no food or fluid consumed and massive row about having to try and go to school)
Cook veggie sausages,oven chips and oven roasted purple sprout broccoli and squash because I'm in need comfort food as dd2 will eat it too!
Wash up
Tack shorts and trousers given to D's by dd1 fiance(also as skinny bean) as they still too big at waist.need get cotton in right colours,but trousers are wearable(as in won't be able step out of them walking along!)he's bemused by idea buttons in place of a zip tho!
Walk to get lil zoo.we had torrential down pour this morning but post lunch been glorious wall to wall blue skies
Sort a mask wash
Set up keyboard for lil zoo to tinker with
Check in dd2(having panic attack in bed)

Tonight's dinner
Pesto pitta pizza for DS with salad and oven chips
Lil zoo might want little hummus and veg sticks,might not as had a roll on returning home and bloated now...
Sweet potato wedges,sesame rolled falafel and roasted green beans for my dinner later😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋

Just to clarify" cat trays scrubbed and refilled" I mean top up fresh litter🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Dirty protest zoo ?

🤣 furry overlords - know your place zoo!!

Heya I’m exhausted haha I woke up this morning and just needed to get loads of stuff sorted. I went into my girls wardrobe and drawers and got rid of all her old stuff, wiped the insides down and then washed the stuff I’ve got for the little one and put them in his drawers. It doesn’t sound like much but it took hours because I was giving it all a proper deep clean 🧽. I’ve got some baby related stuff still left to do but I’ve attempted to follow the fly lady missions today. I still haven’t wrote down the zones for my flat🤦🏻‍♀️ but I’ll get onto that tonight. I’m really determined haha I never stick to this sort of stuff and end up drowning in chores so I need to stick to this!

sing oh thank god you can’t call behind with it aha I’m not very good at sticking to things so at least I know the rules aren’t super strict haha.

willow there will be 17 months between my two and it’s a bit scary, I’m doing it all on my own too so I think I’ll probably be ripping my hair out haha🤣 I haven’t even thought about the nappies omg 😳

Oops zoo I meant the 14th of June please excuse my baby brain so just over a month to go🥰 be prepared for LOTS of photos I’m one of them mums haha😆 sorry to hear about the period pain x

Hi mc👋🏻

hazel 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 the paper work gets done on time x

foxes 💐 sorry about bedtime being a pain I know that feeling x

I only registered today that my June baby will be 14 NEXT MONTH 😱 need to sort presents.

We will gladly admire any cute baby photos cloud! 😍

Posting the rest of my tada now, because I am absolutely fucking shattered and sore and I really don’t think I’ll achieve anything else today. Meeting friends was so lovely but even on the short walk to the park wore me out.

ta da continued
🟠towel/flannel LOL
🟠hand washed a chopping board and a table mat
🟠took bits off hob and scrubbed them in the sink
🟠cleaned hob, controls and handles of oven
🟠met up with friend and chatted while our boys played at the park
🟠reassembled hob
🟠put LOL away
🟠towels/flannels in dryer
🟠went through unit 2 of current course and highlighted/scribbled comments on all questions

Tomorrow will be a long day as DH is helping with the count. There is no way I’d even manage one nursery run in my current state let alone both, so I’ll have to phone them first thing and apologise for Cagletini’s absence. Hopefully by tomorrow I’ll at least have some energy to do some fun activities with her.

Clouds gosh, yes, sorting out wardrobes properly takes aaaages.
You will be grand, I know it. Do you have anyone in RL to give you a hand? Looking forward to all baby pictures! ☺️
Sing sending energy your way 💐
That I'm joining you in the naughty corner.

No real ta das today, not even LOL 😱 But I did check the mission and my 'bagies' drawer is still tidy, so I cout it as a win and call it a day.
🍒👋

That is a win MC! Night all!

cloud I'm sorry I forgot to officially welcome you! We're glad your joining us. It's ok to start with the baby steps and add to it as well, no need to get overwhelmed with everything. I'm not really following flylady at the moment since we're moving, but will get back into the swing of things once we're settled. It is nice to have a plan. I'm off work on Tuesdays, so tend to do the bulk of cleaning that day, and try to focus on the room of the week. I also have older DC who do chores on Friday when home (no school on Fridays here) and that helps a lot. We love baby pictures 🥰
I'm rambling, sorry. Thank you for the well wishes everyone. I've taken Monday off work to start the moving process once in the house. I'll have to clean afterwards, which I wasn't planning on doing.
Sing it sounds like you had a good productive day, even if it was tiring. It's good that you were able to meet up with a friend.
mc I'd say that counts as a win, if something could start tidy. That's half the battle right there.
zoo I hope you and lil zoo feel better soon. Is it something that triggers the IBS in lil zoo? Like gluten/ dairy or something else. I just wonder if it's all related to her not wanting to eat 🤔 🤷‍♀️ just a thought.
hope I need to move more too. I have started to do yoga again at night, and my flexibility has improved dramatically over the last 2 weeks. I'm also walking on my breaks again since it's nice outside.
I am going to have to join you in the naughty corner that we have more to pack but took tonight off. We went to a birthday party, then I got my jammies on and poured myself a drink and I'm currently sitting on the couch with my feet up. It'll probably be the last time for a few days so I'm taking advantage of it.
🍒👋 to everyone

hazel irregular eating makes it worse.onions don't help(but I'd in a shop bought salad she eats it as loves it rather than picks it out.cauliflower and broccoli when diets poor increase pain.shes highly stressed which adding to it,and won't drink during the school day is another problem.i can see what needs to happen but she's 13 and I cannot make hernice to hear you got chance put feet up
Sing enjoy time cagletini today
MC that's deffo a win!
Cloud I sprout broody chicken feathers at babies,so prepare for a trail of then in naughty corner after baby is born🤣🤣🤣🤣have you got any family/friends for support?

I'm sure all that flexibility will be useful with moving Hazel. Lots of lifting and prep. Glorious day here and I'm up early having coffee. I've been reading Michelle Obama's book in the early morning. Living in the White House seems a total faff by the sound of it. I'll put links soon, including baby steps cloud. Morning zoo - fed the furry overlords yet?

Half- i really want to read the Michelle Obama book. I haven't bought it but I wondered if it had tips about mental health and staying strong- like inner strength?

How to tell that burnout has caught up with you?
You fall asleep before 6pm and waking up at 8:30am is a real real struggle. Work is going to have to deal with bed head because i have no time to undo plaits and make it presentable. So super fluffy looking plaits are just going to have to do

Morning?