Fledgling flyers, Part 2, October 2009

[Countingthegreyhairs]

Over here everyone!

DWM How could we forget the clocks - an extra hour in bed -
By the way, the tabard will suit you.

Managed to hoover most of the downstairs today before hoover did its temperamental act and I gave up. Will try upstairs tomorrow.

Night all.

Thanks for the clock reminder - I always forget!

DEM Can I confess that I also have a label maker!!! Hope you're feeling better and that you got through your list!

DWM I always knew you were destined for higher things on this thread. I kneel in the presence of the feather duster!

Ellliepac bleugh to Tescos, hurray for wine and the x factor!

CTGG hope your DD soon feels better.

PAO hope DD is Ok next week and that you have a great time with other DD!!!!

See you all an hour later tomorrow!

Morning everyone, i guess you are all enjoying the extra hour in bed. DC's in my household did not appreciate this wondrous phenomenon so therefore got up at 5.30am.

Coffee is on and tea is brewing nicely.

LOts to do this morning so instead of doing it thought i would lurk on mnet instead . So the list today goes like this:-

Tidy/clean house to mum visiting standards (ie. higher than mine!)
Go back to Tesco to get things that I forgot yesterday
Make cakes with DS (orbuy from said Tesco trip depending on how much i get done)
Washing

Sun is shining here after yesterday's miserable day so have a lovely day everyone.

Thanks for the coffee elliepac. drinking whilst steam press is heating and before I build DS a train track
Bed is stripped so I can do last Friday's mission. DS playing with the sheets so I can't put them in WM yet.

Today I need to
go to Tesco Express to get something for lunch (just me and DS),
do my ironing (somehow I've got a mountain
whizz vaccuum round
change beds
2 min clear of dining table
swish & swipe
shine sink
flick a duster round dining room, landing and bedrooms

Tomorrow afternoon is Christmas cake making time if anyone wants to join me in a glass of brandy and a few carols

Morning all,

My ds doesn't really do sleep elliepac, so we were never going to get an extra hour. He has been printing postman pat pictures off main pc while I am bidding on xmas and birthday gifts on ebay.

My parents are in Malta this week. They always come over for Sunday so we will have a very different day. ds has his horseriding at 10.30 so after dd and I have walked puppy I will probabbly nip to the retail park with her

I have some ironing to do today and I may do some batch cooking.

Droitwich mum - I have never been advanced enough to make my xmas cake this early. Which recipe do you use? Is it worth doing it early? I guess it is something I could do with the dc over half term.

My control journal is still empty . What am I doing wrong? Maybe i'm just not a control journal type of person? I'm a list girl but I just don't seem to get this! Help!

Managed to get quite a bit of paperwork sorted in the study and sorted the coat wardrobe in the study also yesterday.

Right - Sunday is my "big shower day!" pamper and preen and moisturise before cooking breakfast (another weekend / holiday treat). Hope you all have a good day.

It doesn't really matter when you do it but if you do it around now (and some people would say this is late) you get chance to 'feed' it with brandy over the next few weeks before you decorate it.

I've got a recipe I found on the BBC food website a couple of years ago but the recipe of the week on here looks worth a look. Mine is the Christmas cake by Slavka Bradley. If its not there I can post it on here.

I do mine now because it is half term, everyone can help, and if I don't do it now I'll run out of time.

Might do Christmas puds too - then they only need microwaving on the day which saves LOADS of time

Morning Ladies

It was 5:30 a.m. in the marmite house too unfortunately! We ignored DS's chatting for nearly an hour though!

I always use the Delia Christmas cake recipe but replace some of the raisins with a few prunes and feed with amaretto. Haven't made mine yet - have to consult with my Mum to see if she is making one, I might make puds instead if she is doing the cake.

I need to get a few things done as we've invited our neighbours to join us for an early dinner (i.e. at the same time as DS has his) so that we see some other human beings but still have a quiet evening.

Vacuum downstairs
wash kitchen floor
more laundry related things
Put slow cooker on
make soup for lunch
General tidy

swish and swipe - done

DH will be helping so I'm not going to be doing anything too strenuous. Back to work next week though so I do need to start getting back to 'normal'.

Have a lovely day everyone. It is quite sunny here

Am in awe of all of you wonderful people who make christmas cakes and puddings, i thought they came from Mr Tesco .

Have had a very lazy morning so now have to run around like a headless chicken for the next three hours.

tibni am very jealous of your sunday morning pamper...sounds divine.

Hi GTGG
In answer to the missions thing

The website doesnt post the missions till the morning, but the URL (as in web address) is the same all week, so if it is posted at night with the old mission it will update itself overnight to show the right thing next day

not sure I made sense there ...

So chuffed we are carrying on and keeping up the chat!! Oh and I loved the passing over ceremony. It rocked.

Will read more and post again, but generally thanks for the kind words, and yes GTGG I did get DS off ok- its so so sweet fo you to have remembered and asked- especially with how busy you are yourself

We now make our cake as tradition on Stir up Sunday which is the last Sunday before advent

Before that mum used to do it in half term for same reasons as above. DS so loved doingt he stirring and got VERY messy!!
We dont make puddings tho- not worth it for the money

I dont have a label maker (jealous emoticon) but I do have a laminator - I know what a nerd!!!

CTGG you do not sound at all as 'long and boring' you are amazing and how you keep it up I willl never know [in awe emoticon] -ok ok I am making my own up today

Ellie and DWM I can give you the website links at start of week if you want so that one of you can post night before or each day if that helps?

DWM so well on your first swish & swipe. Do you see what I mean about the most time effective 45 seconds of my day now?

I am catching up on last weeks lissons, inc changing bed, and have run dishwasher, and will empty it in a minute... Not much else- just enjoying the time off!

Hi all,

I was awoken this morning by DH, who had got up early, saying "Don't forget you can have an extra hour - I forgot, so got up!!!" He got a pillow thrown at him, as that was exactly what I was trying to do!

Elliepac - I would totally be with you getting Christmas cakes and puddings from Mr Tesco, although mine would be Mr Sainsbury as Tesco is too far away. Luckily, the owner of where DH is manager gives us a homemade cake each year and my lovely DB makes the best Christmas puddings for all the family. So I have NEVER made either. (When we were first ,married MIL used to give us a cake, but not spoken for years)

I have been doing the mammoth washing catch-up today. Lost count of the number, but considering I always do at least one a day and have been away for 5 days, plus all my stuff from being away, plus all the clothes needed for going away on Wednesday. I seem to be drowning in washing/drying/sorting and have left the ironing for tomorrow.
Dh has persuaded me to go along to a pub quiz tonight, which I have been told is guaranteed to be fun! I think some peoples idea of fun may be somewhat different from mine, but will give it a go!

I hope you are all relaxing at the beginning of half term and enjoying some time with DCs, which after all is far more important than Fat Fairy Indoctrinations!!

Hi to everyone else on here. Sorry, once again for lack of individual messages.

OK have completely lost track of this thread but I'm back! I have been checking in briefly all week but have been rushing around os no time to post.

marmite I hope you are OK, so sorry to hear your news

I must confess that the missions have completely passed me by this month BUT I have been keeping up my morning and evening routine and it is really making a difference.

Very much like giving up smoking, this week I decided not to do them ... surely it won't hurt just the once etc etc. I tell you it was carnage! I ended up not having time to make DS1s lunch before school run so had to tak eit later .

But I am pleased that they are more or less automatic now so I'm hoping I can wade back in with the missions on the November thread.

A friend is coming tomorrow whose house is always imaculate (she does have a cleaner twice a week so I don't feel too bad). Luckily a quick fling round should do the trick. To compound matters, they are turning off the electricity tomorrow for maintenance so I can't even boil the kettle!

Evening all

Hey tibni

What you put in your journal are your day time and morning routines, I know it sounds weird (doesnt all the advice fat fairy gives us?!) but just right dwn your morning routine, or like me type and print, then out it into a lever arch/ loose leaf folder or project file, wahtever you have really
If you have any of those plastic sleeves put in there so you can tick off if you want to

The you add to it. But that happens slowly, not all in one day.

POA welcome back BTW, forgot to say it before

frightstick It is funny you saying that. I didnt make my bed today cos I was changing the sheets (didnt do it Friday as per mission). But i didnt strip sheets straight away as I had to take stuff out of machine, and that had to be rinsed again, and then it rained so couldnt take it out, then bed wasnt made so I couldnt lay out the clean washing on it, so there wasnt a laundry basket to carry stuff out in cos clean stuff to be put away was all stil in it....

Yada yada yada, you get the drift. My whole day poncing around and everyhting taking 3 times as long cos I didnt follow my routines!! I should have just made the flippin thing then stripped it when I got to that time. Which is what I will do in future as frankly it only takes the better part of 90 seconds LOL
Like you say -never again!!

ntg all help gratefully received! I'm relying on all of you to keep me in line. Just a thought - the fat fairy is starting to post Christmas missions etc from 1st November. Would you like links to those as well or would that be too much? I've got no views either way but if they would help I will post them.

DWM I was going to ask about that too
She is starting her holiday planning, and TBH it would be great to follow them and have a stress free Christmas wouldnt it?

But I dont want to overwhlm people just getting started...

I will sort all the links for you by the Sunday night and then it should be dead easy

pppssst, hello

[CTGG tiptoes in quietly to say "hello" - frantic day of last-min prep, guest sleeping soundly upstairs, so am trying to type quietly]

Flaps wings silently at everyone

Will catch up with individual posts tomorrow but just wanted to say to Droitwitch -oooh oohh I would LOVE Christmas missions to be included [CTGG barely suppresses glee at thought of thread moving to new level under Droitwitch's expert guidance] - Can't wait -never do Christmas prep. far enough in advance - always last min. rush - would love to change that this year - brilliant idea!!!]

Oh and also wanted to say

um, "I have a labelling machine too" [stand still in this house and you get labelled at the moment]

Will be creeping back in in the morning to post steps for last week of October thread ...

We'll make it a good 'un everyone!!

G'night

I have to do Christmas lunch for 14 this year, with a 3 year old and a baby. My older sister has officially handed over Christmas crown as that way, we can also invite FIL and BIL too and won't have to shuttle between 2 houses.

DH and I will have to find something new to row about in the run up to Christmas .

So I would LOVE Christmas tips too. At least they may provide some comedy value in a 'life's too short' kind of way.

Flumps on chair in corner of flying thread.

Today has been busy. Very busy. I have started the scrub down and polish up for christmas. Todays task was the lounge. So i have:

All done
Checked lego bits/models
empty and cleaned video/dvd storage
Move bookcase
Hover/clean behind book case
Sort through toys
Washing monster: washed, folded, ironed, away
Plastic bed protector sheets washed
Ds Bedding washed
Matress airing
recycling to recycling point
tea for tomo cooked (left overs from today)
Dining room side board tidy and cleaned
Lounge paper work sorted
Lounge hoovered
Half of dinning room hoovered
Laundry basket washed
Boxes returned to loft

Unfortunately didnt get everything planned to do done or my early night but making the most of ds being away.

Christmas cakes in this house have to be made only a few days before christmas. We have to have a sponge cake decorated like a christmas cake due to the various allergies in the house. Looking forward to getting the christmas biscuits and special baking done later in the month. Going to have to construct my christmas to do list soon. Will be putting it in my control journal.

Oh laminator - cool resource construction me thinks

Hope all have had a good weekend. {hgrin]

Task tomorrow - my bedroom.

Morning all, have drunk all the coffee as was up far too early but have put a second lot on....tea here as well.

I too would love Christmas tips as am always hopelessly disorganised. We are staying at home this year but having DMum over from Christmas Eve (even though she only lives 10 mins away!) so need to be up to scratch so to speak.

First day of half term hols here and have Dsis and DSN plus close friend and her brood over this afternoon so will have a full house. Therefore all flying is to be done this morning. So far I have:-

Done general tidy downstairs though not too bad due to mother's visit yesterday.
1 load of washing through and tumble dryer (sorry to any eco-friendly minds out there)
2nd load in.
DW loaded and on.
DC's breakfast done

To do:-
Tidy/Clean DS's room (damage limitation in view of this afternoon)
Tidy/Clean DD's room
Sort out/put away laundry
Our Bedroom (am thinking of going retro and making this my own personal zone for this week)

Have a good day everyone.

Wow DEM way to go you. Thats an amazing amount to get done

Laminator IS massively cool, but I need more things to laminate LOL Was from Wilkinsons if you are tempted...

Posting links to try and help out- hope it isnt treading on toes

babystep where Fly lady explains we all miss a daya nd now you can catch up

Flyzone- we are in the living room

Daily mission

[CTGG sprints in panting hard]

Oh THANK YOu Nightmareteam - not treading on toes at all - so sorry to be late (again!!)

Visitor had early start and required a bit of "coaching" as to how to negotiate Brussels traffic (a bit of a hair-raising prospect] + a full English breakfast this morning! Hectic day ahead too. Sorry to be so unreliable.

So you have saved me a job. Got to get to work now but will post later in the day.

Have a good day everyone.

Sorry - just checked daily mission before leaving

PMSL at "Too many ducks, bunnies,candles, cows, precious moments (whatever they are??) cluttering up our sitting room surfaces ...

Good morning! Nice lie in this morning with DS watching Barney (I hate those kids!)
No work this week so no excuses either
Today's list
get dressed
breakfast
ironing
1 load of washing
empty DW
15 mins declutter living room
5 mins throwing things out of living room forget that. DS has just said he wants to sort out his toys today, but they are in the living room so that will do for today
get christmas cake ingredients
MAKE CHRISTMAS CAKE & SING CAROLS feel free to join me around 3
swish & swipe
shine sink
clear out cleaning cupboard - 15 mins
pay bills