Spring into action: Flying into April, a flylady April thread

[Positivepositron]

Welcome to the April thread. This is my first time starting a flylady thread. And I've been doing flylady about a month but very are many on the thread who are years in.

I'm cutting and pasting Hazel's great intro which explains everything:

Whether you're starting to build a new routine, stuck in a rut, or been around for years, join us on the Flylady thread. I'll try to keep us on track for the month, with baby steps, daily missions and weekly zones.

This is a long running thread, but we are a friendly bunch and all are welcome to join in.
Do NOT sign up for the Flylady emails - it's an excessive amount sent every day.
There are Baby Steps for starting out: add one thing at a time to start good habits and routines.
There are 5 zones that we will rotate through:
🩷Entryway, porch and dining room
🩷Bathroom & one other room
🩷Kitchen
🩷Master bedroom & master bathroom
🩷Living room

Don't worry about finishing it all this month, it'll come around again next month! Flylady is NOT about perfectionism!

Daily focus: each day of the week has a different focus.

• Monday: Home Blessing (or as we call it, home bleugh)
• Tuesday: plan & play
• Wednesday: anti-procrastination
• Thursday: errand day
• Friday: clean car & purse out a week. It's also date night (with your significant other, or friends, or yourself!)
• Saturday: family fun day
• Sunday: renew your spirit

Common acronyms we use:

• LOL: load of laundry (washing is certainly NOT funny!)
• DW: dishwasher, we are not rotating wives by any means, although an extra pair of hands could come in handy sometimes 😆
• S&S: Swish & Swipe (wipe the bathroom sink & toilet)
• LMS: lose/lost my shit
• DNLMS: did not lose my shit

There are more, feel free to ask us to explain something. I'll try to update links every day, if I can get them to work, she's updated the website! Although if you can, it's worth downloading the newly updated app, you can even have it send you notifications (although I only have it for when the zones change). You can also modify the tick lists to suit your home & lifestyle.

Links are below 👇
Daily missions (for the zone we are in): https://beta.flylady.net/daily-mission
Baby steps (on a different website, since the link isn't working on the new site yet): https://mymerrymessylife.com/flylady-31-baby-steps/

Feel free to ask any questions you may have, some of us have been doing Flylady for a very long time, as well as others just starting out. We may have other things to add that we have found works for us that could help you too!

I don't think you can find out ahead of time unfortunately. I guess thr theory might be that people might end up trying to do too much if they can see ahead.

Babystrp today is to start the Swish and swipe in the bathroom

Mission is to flip the mattress and make your bed really well.

I did nothing extra yesterday except took 6 more books to the supermarket swap shelf and put away food shopping home delivery.

@CherryogDog sorry to hear about the migraines. That's terrible.

Morning , sending a ☕️ to those that would like one .

Wow, what a work week! Absolutely no flying done apart from the basic make bed , LOL, cooking and clearing the pots. Residential , work deadlines and a burst water pipe ! Just about survived 😂 will be back this evening to catch up on the thread and some ✅ ( hopefully! )

Yes that does make sense I suppose! I just got all eager after doing nothing!

I had and completed a slightly different mission for today, I blitzed the kitchen so that is gleaming now.

bathroom swish and swipe is next on the list, after a couple more work calls.

happy Friday, all!

Well done on blitzing the kitchen.

Babystep for today is to learn how the routines developed.

No missions as its a Saturday.

Oh and it's the last day in the bedroom. I didn't do loads in here still but did manage clearing/ hoovering under the bed and de cobbwebbing behind the wardrobes and brought my jumpers up from the utility where they have been living to the under bed drawer.
Tomorrow we move to the living room for the end if the month. As we cleared it all for our new furniture it hopefully shouldn't be too bad in here.
But we have guests on Sunday so we will probably actually do a quick blitz of everywhere as we haven't kept in top of it so we'll because of the painting, new furniture and furniture repairs we've been doing. But definitely not too bad compared to normal guest preparations.

Babystep for today is to look at bottom of a flylady email, no idea what that means as I never signed up to the emails.
Zone is now the loving room and I need yo edit the task list. As I mentioned we have visitors today so will mainly be doing a multi room rescue as we've mainly been in the garden this week.
Then maybe a more detailed go at living room from tomorrow onwards. We have drawers in the coffee table that need sorting through and a cupboard behind the sofa. Other than that I think the room rescue today will cover it.

Sorry I've not posted. I've not been home so no flying!
We are on our way back from Disneyland, California. It's a bit of a drive! Luckily I don't have to drive as we're on the bus.

My plan for tomorrow is to do laundry mostly. DH has been home, so should have kept up on the day to day stuff.
I do have another blood test to do for my thyroid, so that'll get done too. Oh, and grocery shopping/ meal planning etc.
And of course, most importantly, I plan on catching up on sleep! I'm so glad I took tomorrow off work to rest.