Fledglings Soar Calmly into September - the FlyLady Thread

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Calling all fledglings, newbies and lurkers to the September FlyLady thread! Join us as we try to sometimes rather loosely follow FlyLady’s routines to steer us gradually towards clean and tidy homes and organised lives, with lots of nattering and support along the way.

The more the merrier, so please feel welcome to join. I’ll post daily links to try to keep us on track, and I’ll explain the system as we go if we have any newbies. If there’s anything you’re not sure about please ask. The website is here but be wary of signing up to the emails. There are lots.

Thanks to our lovely Sing for keeping us flapping through August, you did a grand job.

The naughty corner is fully stocked for anyone needing a little respite. I am already keeping it warm for everyone today and I’m not even sorry

Remember, you are never behind, just jump in where you are. Let’s do this Fledglings!

Ta da cont

🍂 fed everyone tea
🍁 cleaned up after tea
🍂 dw on
🍁 more LOL
🍂 brought in washing
🍁 ordered dd coat
🍂 folded and put away towels
🍁 ironed last bits of uniform

Man alive this thread moves quickly!

I haven’t achieved much this evening other than helping DSD on the phone with a work thing. She is A Talker so this took rather a long time 🤣

So I haven’t started my online course yet. TBH I’m not sleepy so may as well do a bit now. At least the Caglets got their work done earlier too.

Sing- I bet you where very helpful to your dsd.
Up- how exciting you are expecting a girl. Just think all the pretty dresses you get to dress up another girl in-

Wellies- thank you. Do you have another scan booked.
Zoo- hope your ds likes being back at school. Fingers crossed for you guys.

Tadas
-Woke up at 6am and left house at 6.15am to find a bloody shop that sold bread. Grrr.
-Kids late to school again- shit- realised ds has to run futher into the school which makes him later then dd. I feel bad. I have to get them there on time or earlier.

Errands- return all ds casual clothes I bought for him from asda. Using the money to fund all the extra school wear.

• bought school ties! They are a suprisingly nice colour.
• return and buy things from Aldi- served by such a lovely lady at checkout served me.
• dropped of ibruprofen to my dad as he is feeling abit sore. The hospital meds are finished so he was just taking paracetamol. I think he was on codine and ibruprofen. He is up and about doing as gentle housework as he can. I think he is 77yrold and has ocd so cannot sit still if he sees something needing doing. (I am the opposite to him. I am more of a thinker.)

• back home I put all shopping away.
• put dd unicorn bedding to wash and dry.
• watch magnum pi to make myself feel better. Feeling abit low.
• fill up diswasher.

-pick up kids from after school class (they got offered some extra spaces.)

• kids had icecream and chocolate when they got home as a treat.
• ready made toad in the hole for the kids- they loved it.
• bought a mountain of bread products that were reduced. Honestly its a bread mountain. (I was supposed to be eating less of it.) Will post a pic. I am telling myself its for the kids - to fill them up and for variety. Going to try raisan cinnimon bagels for the kids breakfast tomo.

And I cant sleep. Must be up at 6am to make the packed lunches.

(Leaving lots of brews in the naughty corners.)

P.s not the ninky tea kind.

Normal brews.

I'm not the only one awake in the night, I see. I'll snaffle one of those brews Dancing, if I may, I'm gagging and there's only water here. The kettle is downstairs and it's just too far. Hope your mood is lifting. I'm grinning my flipping head off due to some major hypnotherapy in 2008. 'You will smile' I heard her say. I'd told her I didn't want to smile because that was for 'silly people'. I'm a lot more fun now.

dancingmine love C+R bagels toasted with cream cheese.ds likes slices banana on it tooto hide the raisins

Busy day yesterday
Visited D's new school placement,picked uniform
Lots laundry dealt with
Home bleurgh most done

Very tired and low sure it's hormones
Must deaf my sorry arse up and crack on
Council coming to fix unattached overflow on bath,change a tap and hopefully sort mould in grout!

How does drag become deaf?!

Morning all

Morning that,

Fiddle- thats interesting about hypno and smiling. I need to smile more.
I used hypno to help me get pregnant. The clomid did its magic of course. I think accupunture and all combined helped. This was 7yrs ago.

Zoo- Drag- new word to our list. 😁
Ninky tea
Pontyprid

Lets hope my morning doesnt go pontyprid...i have to get them to school- on time would be nice.

☕

*Sorry- i meant deaf

Come on dancing you can do it!

We were about 2 min late for school yesterday thanks to the babies nappy leaking as i went to put him in the pram!

Dancing your dad sounds like mine. He couldn’t be prevented from mowing the lawns during chemo even. He’s 75 and just can’t stop.

Have just rechecked letter and it’s actually next Tuesday that I’m giving🩸 Glad I checked rather than finding out after walking all the way there.

To do po3-1
Finally actually get the rubbish and recycling out of the messy kitchen
Fold clean laundry and put away
Tidy and s&s kitchen

Council have done sealant.not taps.apparently not been issued that Job yet,probs be back later...how cost effective!

Tada
Cats fed
Wash on
Wash up
Wipe surfaces
Wipe dining table
Wash up DD school and home water bottles
Man the toaster
Wash up and wipe down
S+s
Quick wipe bathroom floor
Wash up cat bowls/wipe feeding mat and general tidy their feeding area as in bathroom
Poo pick litter tray
Wash in drier
More on
Check DD made pack up
Shove her put door and field anxious texts as can't walk her in awaiting council tradesman

Yesterday was a bit mental so I’m sorry o still have caught up with you all. Hope everyone is well and apologies if I’ve missed any big news! Another shift to get myself through today and then my day off

It’s planning day again. Missions are to clean the bathroom bin, and spend 5 minutes in your ‘stash and dash’ space to see if there is anything you can donate. Happy flying 👋

Well rang and discovered when hot tap was fixed as emergency cold tap was put under bath to await repair adding today so they match.cept he spotted overflow wasn't attached and adding that on moved date of both.now being done 19th OCTOBER.
Glad I checked
Two loads wash done
Chasing emails about D's options-hes deffo expected to be doing GCSE english and a different cert for maths.hes got lust other choices which put him in tailspin so emails trying smooth over what some entail etc.such a big step for him!
Field anxious texts dd2
2lol done,one airer one in drier
Pouring here and colder.autumns deffo here now!
Need get up and get on

Not really achieving much here. Did a bit of school work and read emails. Yesterday’s washing is not fully dry so I can’t put away and I await the shirt and pe kit ds will have used today for another load anyway. Shirts are in short supply as I somehow accidentally bought a pack of skinny fit ones that ds won’t wear because they show his nipples apparently.

Did get rubbish and recycling out and vaguely tidy kitchen and have put away my grocery delivery. I need to go to the chemist this afternoon and I need a bath later.

If I can get myself moving I may attempt some batch cooking. I have diced beef and could make a big casserole in the slow cooker. Ds isn’t keen but I could freeze portions for myself. I have some potato wedges wrongly sent with a takeaway to use and could make a tortilla and chill for ds’s dinner tonight and breakfast if he doesn’t scoff it all. I could have a portion of stew and leave a portion for tomorrow after work and freeze the rest. But will I get myself moving 🙈

Zoo- why cant they fix it all at the same time?

Got the kids to school at 8.28am - phew - thanks for encouragement!

Tadas

1. Double bedding washed and into dryer.
2. Find a potato and leek recipe
3. Put all hangers of school clothes into wardrobe

4.make tomo sandwiches and anything else for lunch bags so i am abit more prepped to get kids to school on time.

1. Put unicorn bedding back onto the bed.

Yay well done dancing

Not achieving anything here either really. Was meant to be back to volunteering today so managed to fit in some work with DS before 10 but then my person didn’t answer the phone. So now I’m a bit “aaargh change of plans” 😬 I really hate my brain on days like this! And I’ve got a trial lesson at 2, assuming they show up this time (I have messaged)

po3.1 or I’ll end up stuck all day
❗️Message a friend about what’s happening with local colleges
❗️See what Caglets can do next
❗️Check laundry status, think there’s enough for another LOL

It's an odd sort of a day here.

People are in the way, the to do list is long, and honestly I want to disappear into the hills and just do nothing but that is not an option.

Mustn’t forget chemist. Got sucked into reading relationships threads.

Sounds like you’ve done lots dancing.

Hope your student shows this time sing.

I seem to be stuck to my bed.

po3.2
❗️Make sure DD1 does some science revision with DH
❗️Prep for maths assessment
❗️Make self/zoom background vaguely presentable

Just popping in with a quick message from Wellies,.

Dancing and Hills were correct to advise getting back to hospital for scans etc she has done just that and as a result is being kept in for treatment, her wifi isn't strong enough for the thread to open. She is in good hands and good spirits .

Thank you for updating ED

My trial lesson was awesome. Love love love my work. Yay!

Hello! Hope everyone has had a decent sort of day.

This morning as I cleaned my teeth, I noticed how sparkly my bathroom sink looked, thanks to my fifteen minutes in there yesterday. Did another fifteen today - bathroom fully decluttered and modestly cleaned. Big cleaning still an aspiration.

Also worked on bedroom 3, and bedroom 1. Felt I should have done more. Used the timer.

Tonight I need to pack for an overnight at dd's, tomorrow.

Did two hours at dad's. Once again, a gardener coming to give a price on trimming a hedge let me down.

Feeling a bit tired but finding myself optimistic about making progress in my own house, thanks to this thread.

Fiddle- welldone for the sparkly sink! This thread is a god send.

Sing- thank you lovely.
You are great volunteering too. Such a shame when people forget to be there. That must be frustrating for you.

Ed- thank you for letting us know wellies is in hospital and being looked after and in good spirits. Glad she went to get checked.

Hills- sorry they are soo annoying. Wish you could go to into the hills and didnt have such a long list.

Honey- thanks! Sorry for so many crossed posted from me this morning!

Up- hope you are getting some rest somewhere.

Zoo- hope school prep is going ok?

Red-hope you are ok?

One more day of isolation to go here (DH is free as of today so he popped to the shops). Was seriously flagging in the evening but then finished a small online course and had a particularly vicious game of Organ Attack with the Caglets. 🤣

Should sleep, I have a lesson at 9am 😩😴 all planned though.