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Kelly's mission

Babysteps Day 3

Morning Guys,

As promised I will post my routines.

DAILY LIST

? Morning routine

1. Make bed
2. Swish & Swipe en suite bathroom
3. Put a wash load in
4. Empty dishwasher
5. Feed cat
6. Check calendar
7. DRINK SOME WATER
8. Clear away breakfast things
9. Think about what you want for dinner - take out meat if necessary.

10. 2 minute hotspot 11. 5 minute room rescue

? Afternoon routine

1. Clear away lunch things
2. Empty/reload dishwasher
3. Hang out/collect washing
4. Swish & swipe downstairs loo
5. 15 minutes
6. DRINK SOME WATER
7. Kelly?s Mission

? Night time routine

1. Take clean clothes upstairs & put away
2. Swish & swipe children?s bathroom
3. Load dishwasher & put on
4. Wipe kitchen surfaces and shine sink
5. 2 minute hotspot
6. Brush teeth, hair and wash
7. Get clothes out for tomorrow
8. DRINK SOME WATER

WEEKLY LIST
? Monday - Home blessing
Purge magazines
Water Plants
Polish Mirrors
Vacuum downstairs & Dust
Mop floors
? Tuesday
Ironing
? Wednesday
Zone clean
Zone windows
Thank you letters / celebration cards / bills
Empty all trash
? Thursday ? Errand Day
Take library books back
Post letters
Wash towels
? Friday
Vacuum upstairs & Dust
Change Sheets
Clean fridge
? Saturday - Family Fun
Clear out handbag
Clear out car
? Sunday - Renew spirit - Pamper Mission
Write Menu & shopping list
Supermarket shop
Check calendars for week ahead
Paperwork

This week we are in the LIVING ROOM so I'll post by zone list too.

CLEAN WINDOWS & DOORS - 10 MINS
CLEAN WINDOW SILLS - 2 MINS
CLEAN MIRROR - 2 MINS
CLEAN PHONE - 1 MIN
CLEAN TV ETC - 3 MINS
CLEAN COFFEE TABLE - 2 MINS
CLEAN COMPUTER TABLE - 10 MINS
CLEAN OUT MAGAZINE RACK - 2 MINS
DUST COBWEBS - 3 MINS
DUST ORNAMENTS - 2 MINS
MOVE FURNITURE, VACUUM, SHAMPOO CARPET
POLISH FURNITURE - 5 MINS
PUT DVDS & COMPUTER GAMES AWAY - 5 MINS
SHREDDING - 10 MINS
STRAIGHTEN BOOKCASE - 5 MINS
STRAIGHTEN DVD UNIT - 2 MINS
STRAIGHTEN DRESSER & DRAWERS - 5 MINS
SORT OUT TOYS - 5 MINS
WATER & PRUNE PLANTS - 5 MINS
WIPE FINGERPRINTS FROM WALLS & TOUCH UP PAINT SCRATCHES

And now I will stop talking to myself

Off to finish morning routine now....

Morning EV

In answer to your questio Ambi - I'd say EV can bepretty Guru-ish when it comes to FLY

Ruby does the whole life FLYing very well, and I suspect you are more knowledgable than me!

I agree babys should stay here, and I'll redo babystps, too
I won't post all my routines too, but I do have daily and weekly routines but not zones.

I have work this am, then three different supermarkets to visit, plus Iceland for milk (still on offer yesterday at £2 for 8 pints so I'm going t check it out today.)

Morning Jas,

Ambi - don't listen to Jas, she is a guru too We often fall off the wagon so re-visiting babysteps is very useful for all of us.

Morning routine now complete except for hotspot. Need to do stairs but not sure I can face it so may leave it until later.

Just need DD2 to be dressed and then pre-school run, take to childminder and then off to work until lunchtime.

See you later.

Morning all

EV thanks for the lists, very impressive and helpful. Have been FLYing since october and still haven't got them right for me yet.
Jas why 3 different supermarkets? Tesco's alone is more than enough.
I have been up since 5:30 adn have been sitting on MN too long already.

Get up
Make bed done
Get dressed done
DC?s up done
Make DC?s beds done
Put W/M on done
DS bottle done
Breakfast 3 doing*
Wash up
Dry up & put away
Shine sink
DC?s dressed
Washing out or T/D
Clean toilet

PLAY with DC?s
DS nap
Thigh trainer
Put dry washing away
Clean in weekly zone

DS up
DS bottle
Playschool

Still have lots to do. Had better try and get DS to eat some breakfast

Hope everyone has a good morning, will be back when I have done something.
BBL

Morning jas and EV and everyone.

Haven't caught up with WE thread yet. Hope it was a good one.

I had a gd WE. Got all the bits and pieces for the various birthdays and parties in July (am a bit concerned about DS escalating expectations of his party ).

Threw out all my too short T shirts and DCs too small shoes and replaced them .

Went to school fair.

Thanks for posting those lists EV I'll have a good look later.

BBL

EV hells bells im only hyperventilating and looking at my house thinking OMG

my house is a pig sty after the dcs tearing it apart this w/end, yet another diet bit the dust, i'm enormous and i keep procrastinating and failing at everything!

other than that brief moan everything's great and i shall try really hard today so i can have the "glow" of satisfaction later!

Been up since half 5 with ds who has his first tooth coming through bless! but ive still managed to do nothing! So i shall give myself a little bit to muck about on mn and then get on!

I hope you're all well and had a lovely w/end

My take on flylady that if life gets in the way then you take the day off and catch up the next day. That includes holidays, weekends, children ill etc. Once you're on top of things it should take too much to get back into it. The hardest bit is the first couple of months where you are trying to build a routine/change your ways etc. Take it slowly.....babysteppers

Listen to EV Babysteppers, she speaks wise words

Once you have a morning and evening routine, everything else just slots into place. DH even does the morning or evening stuff now.

Morning list all done, bar breakfast which is cooling

We are at Playgroup first thing
Lunch
DS1 to preschool
DS2 home for nap
Ironing
Mission
Home Bleuring
DS2 back from Preschool
Dinner

Catch you later

hi everyone gonna get on today i'm hoping it will get a bit warmer today

to do
fed baby and us
get washed and dressed
s&s kithcen
s&s bathroom
wash up
tidy up
washing
hang washing up
ironming
polish
feed dogs clean water
vacuem
wipe babywalker down
fill water barrel up
get drinking water
empty toilet
empty wastewater

ev ur list puts ne too shame lol ur living room will llook fab

Morning all!!

gosh im worn out by reading the Flylady.net stuff!! so much to read!

How do i know which routine to start? as i do need a basic-ish one as with me being 7 months pg...ie dont want to burn myself out!

Ive already done the babysteps Day 3 before i got out of the door this morning to take DD to preschool and yes i do love looking at a shiny sink in the mornings knowing im not gonna spend under an hour washing and cleaning etc....

Plus its so warm here in Liverpool!

so no ive still not started but im about to in the next 5 minutes..changed my name though! mummymusings is dead long live kiltycoldbum yes it is cold..

am going, going...

Good morning!
Very frightened of some of your lists - that would take me all day!
I am on day two and I am wondering if you can change the babystep slightly or is that really bad?
I have indoor clothes and outdoor clothes, to keep my outdoor clothes clean. So I would put on a top and trackybums for when I am at home and then change to trousers and a different top to go out, then come home and change back. Do you think I can count my indoor clothes as dressed? [stupid face]
Do you all put on make up when you wake up? I can see how it would save a bit of time, but I don't like the idea of wearing make up all day.
I only put on a bit of concealer and a bit of lip gloss anyway, so it doesn't take long.
Am I being a bit too literal?
I will put on moisturiser and get the little one dressed for outdoor now - that takes the longest anyway!
I see there is a bit of reading about reminders for tomorrow - I'll save that until then.

rowingboat & biglips don't worry about the lists yet, de-cluttering is your first priority. Personally I would count indoor clothes as dressed, and I still put my make-up on just as I'm going out. I'm sure everyone would agree adapt FLYlady to suit you.
kilty, love the name change. De-cluttering always warms me up.

Get up done
Make bed done
Get dressed done
DC?s up done
Make DC?s beds done
Put W/M on done
DS bottle done
Breakfast 3 done*
Wash up done
Dry up & put away done
Shine sink done
DC?s dressed done
Washing out or T/D done
Clean toilet done

PLAY with DC?s done
DS nap done
Thigh trainer done
Put dry washing away
Clean in weekly zone

DS up
DS bottle
Playschool

Have to leave in 30mins, will leave mission until I get back. Am going to visit the library and take out Paul McKenna's Think yourself thin, hopefully will stop the comfort eating before DD finishes playschool.

BBL

Thanks for the routines posts - I love reding peoples routines, I think Im wierd!

shower and wash hair - done
do dishes - they are soaking just now
run machine on a HOT wash to clean machine
take recycling out
take bins out
go to bank
buy a new mop and brush
wash windows

Hi again. Tried to scan the WE thread (was v long).
Hi to all the newbies. I'm an erratic flyer . I do find though that if I'm short of time its good to have a list so you can quickly get on with something (otherwise don't know where to start).

TMH hope you can get some money back for your missed show, what a terrible shame!

RR DS still loves the usual games (pass parcel, musical chairs, bumps etc) boys get quite competitive though .

Todays list:
House bleugh
Get stuff ready for DS trip to beach tomorrow.

what size are they ruby? top hats are always good

or if you mean like they are flumps then im sure ive seen them in like crispie cake style things before. you have to chop them up though obviosuly.

OK
I am dressed and so is small person and the sink is clean and the loo is clean.
Shannara thanks for the tips on the lists!
Ruby the parties I have been to vary, but most children like musical bumps and statues and pass the parcel, although the younger they are the more bemused they look. We went to one in May where they had a kind of race day and they had things like potato and spoon race and an obstacle race. I loved the dressing up race at our recent sports day, with big flowery hats and handbags, it was soo funny. We went to a pirate party where they played a version of pin the tail on the donkey, which was to pin an arrow on the treasure map (but with a sticky pad to stick to the board, rather than a pin) and they had a treasure hunt with clues and mini eggs as incentives.
I hope that helps a bit.

Hi everyone,

Back from work. DDs fed. Kitchen cleared.

Ruby - X marks the spot (instead of the pin the tail..), Gold coin treasure hunt, Musical mermaids (musical statues), Best Dressed Pirate, Walk the plank type game...