Action Stations for August! Fledglings Flap Frantically and Swish’n’Swipe through Summer

[SingToTheSky]

Welcome one and all!

I’m quickly setting up the August thread (ok seriously I know someone says this every month but HOW is it August already?!) - MN has been a bit iffy today, and I got rather distracted this evening which I fear may be a portent of my hosting skills this month. Thank you to the lovely ED for steering us through July despite much to manage at home 💐

Anyway - do join in as we loosely follow the Flylady system, in order to gradually sort our houses out. The key word here is GRADUALLY. There is no turning the house upside down and banishing chaos overnight, there is slow and steady. You are never behind. Miss a day? Week? Decade? No worries, jump back in, it’ll all come round again.

Newbies always welcome!

I need to stop eating biscuits when up doing night feeds

willow I missed nightmare with DD .

ThatI wish I could go back and refuse that extra stay over at dd1 house that set all this off😭
Dd1 rang me(requested) she admitted lilzoo is fine as long do/getting what wants,rest time Arsey Pants who won't eat,talk,communicate in anyway or move from bed think u scared dd1 saying weeks are now months.are you plan do years/til she's 18?she thinks weeks D's don't visit she will bring lil zoo for structure visit and stay to. Ease atmosphere/increase chat suggestions incl picnic in park,board games and afternoon tea,a nice walk somewhere and refreshments.we shall see..lil zoo got up late,slip brekkie and deliberately come down just before due to co w to us having not had lunch so only had fruit and crisps hasn't eat much tea either.all indicates she's not"in control"...
Enough moaning,I'm watch TV with dd2 and chilling.not sure she's in My bed again tonight,still feeling bit meh,arms very tender and miserable after today's interactions...

Goth Cagletini will be 4 in October 😱

ta da
🚁maths lessons (walked there and back)
🚁piano
🚁entertained Cagletini and DLMS!
🚁bit of diary admin
🚁piano lesson planning
🚁room rescue living room
🚁made 2 lots of homework
🚁prepped for English tomorrow

Zoo How old is littleZoo? Does the fiance entering the picture and her change in attitude/behaviour tie in at all timing wise? I'm so sorry she's behaving like this - I presume people have tried actually telling her how much she's hurting you and her brother and sister?

That I used to have a slab of galaxy next to my bed for night feeds

Willow hope things have settled down. Think I have it easier with a boy - girls friendship groups and fall outs seem to be so much more complicated.

Managed to get blazer and pe stuff today and have done a lol and put away another load and that's about it really. I need to be very on it with laundry for the rest of the week and to get the living room sorted and make ds do the stairs and we must put together his bedframe like I've been saying we need to do for weeks.

Master bedroom is pretty much ok - I'd say 2 proper 15 minute bursts would have it tip top (by my lax standards anyway).

Everyone fed, no one dead, front door is locked and I'm done.

that I was a biscuit/choc muncher too
Honey she's 14 in October

I had to idea taking them away for few days but after yesterday's visit D's and DD are adamant they won't stay anywhere with her as the atmosphere she adds would make anywhere but home unmanageable for their respective anxieties

🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘

It’s Thursday again already. As DS sagely said the other day, the days are long but the weeks are fast 🧐 anyway it’s errand day so get those tasks done.

FLIGHTPLAN

Here are this week’s missions. Declutter your underwear today. Because nothing says you love yourself like non-holey underwear. Or something.

🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘

Decluttered my underwear last week

Surely a sign i am winning at life not just fact i bought some new and couldn't shut the drawer

I am now on my period for the second time at 8 weeks post partum fml! Also had crap night sleep and have killer back ache

WTF I swear you only just mentioned having it again! Weeks go fast indeed 😭

I’m so fucking sleepy 😭 why did I agree to 9.30am lessons 🤣

po3.1
❗️Meds and breakfast
❗️Message friend about times for maths lesson as I have job centre appt later
❗️Shower and dressed

Yes i did! That was week 5 😑 fuck off mother nature!

Waiting for ibruprofen to kick in

That's really not fair at all THAT

You have my sympathy Sing I had less than three hours sleep which is ridiculous even by my recent standards. Can't keep on like this when I'm back at work.

Shopping being delivered soon so:

Put shopping away
LOL
Tidy kitchen/load dw

Zoo so just about to start year 9 then. Hopefully puberty settling down will help. Trying to think positive but yes, with the dynamic of running to your dd's house in place that's very tricky. On the other hand at least it gives the other children a break from her.

Yep,honey year 9.her periods started end year 6/beg year 7 so we in full hormonal whirlwind still!
They are in awful dilemma of want her back,but not in this form

Morning all,

WFH this morning, just having a quick break. Kitchen floor is being laid today, by a friendly fitter who made me a cup of tea earlier .

I have had a PM from Hills - she is having tech issues again so may be AWOL for a bit but not to worry about her.

I saw this on the BBC website earlier and thought it would be perfect for the Keep Calm Corner, I keep watching it

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-58338661

Glad to hear Hills is ok, ED, although tech issues are a pain in the bum. How's the floor looking?

That it's most unfair your period is back, twice, already. Is there someone you can register a complaint with?

Zoo sending ❤️. Hopefully back to school will shock Lilzoo into realising her sister isn't going to let her waste her life away all the time.

Nothing to report this morning except having a wash and getting dressed. Still upstairs. Considering a nap!

Aww ED what a lovely link! ❤️🐑

I have been sitting in a daze since getting back. Lesson was great. I got myself a meal deal on the way home and have been sitting (on the floor cos no sofa) faffing about on my phone instead of even drinking my smoothie… it’s almost lunchtime now. There I was hoping to get stuff done before my job centre appt and my last tutoring of the week, but I’m not sure that’s gonna happen 😳 still, at least in said appt I can report that I actually have achieved stuff since last time - I’ve applied for that job, I’ve researched different charities and vacancies/roles, and finished my course since my last appt two weeks ago!

Ooh BTW any plant experts - what do I do with this leaf please? It’s on an indoor plant and one has just gone… icky. Do I cut it, or leave it, or pull it right out? The other leaves are all fine. I don’t even know how to describe it so I wouldn’t have a clue what to Google!

sing I would just pull it. You need to get rid of it basically.
I also got that whitefly issue on one of my plants. I remember you had it with your herbs. What did you do for it?

Thanks mc :)

With the whitefly I’m ashamed to say we just got rid of it before I even found out what it was 😳 as I mentioned earlier in the thread I have a lot of anxiety around food/germs/bugs due to the way I grew up - it was just a cheap basil plant and I knew that I’d never feel ok eating from it :( if it had been a non-edible plant I would have put it outside and then decided but it was absolutely covered in flies and eggs so I just freaked out.

Anyway thank you I will pull that leaf. Might get DH to repot it as well, not sure if we need a bigger pot again and the soil is looking very tired now 🤔 argh I’m clueless!

I’ve still done nothing, except eating my lunch. So sleepy.

Have taught maths. Played a bit of piano.

Realised it’ll be even harder to get stuff done over the next few days and it’s making me a bit panicky TBH. Aaargh

It probably didn’t help that although my appt at the job centre went well, it was really loud in there, much more peopley than usual and sitting with a screen between us it was hard to focus and I felt a bit overwhelmed.

Sing 4! I've been gone longer than I realised.
Also pull the leaf off, it'll just get mankier

Quick rant and run.

Today has been a complete waste of time.
I was supposed to be running 2 classes in Edinburgh today. Got up, did my Covid test, dropped DD at school and tooled over there (takes just over an hour)

Greeted at the door with "Didn't you get an email? We're in full lockdown until next week, all classes are cancelled"

Traffic was a nightmare coming back, I got dehydrated and have only now crawled out of bed recovering from the headache it brought on.

Oh no goth! 😩

I’m pissed off as I was just telling DH how anxious I am about the next few days, when I leaned on the phone shelf and it came out of the damn wall 😩 knew it was a risk at some point as the interior walls are shit in here, but ffs. 😩

Today is TOO MUCH. 🤬😭

Oh that sucks.

I did my po3 then nothing much since. Managed to have a nap after my less than three hours sleep night and must get all rubbish and recycling out this evening as it's being collected in the morning but that may about it.

Hope you got a nap Willow

Goth -hello and how frustrating!

Sing sorry it's one of those days. Hope you're feeling calmer now.

Given up on the idea of getting anything done today. At least tomorrow we should manage some stuff. Hopefully.

Just watching more Atypical with DD1 and trying to relax as much as possible since I clearly need to just STOP for a day or two. Problem is Saturday I am going to struggle to get anything done, as I will be alone with the smaller two. So really stuff needs to get done tomorrow.

ta da
🔥taught English (walked there and back)
🔥job centre
🔥taught maths
🔥played a bit of piano