Weekly Flylady Thread 19th March 2007

mioliere

Happy Birthday for tomorrow!

happyathome_withmyboys

Dailies
[STRIKE]Make own bed[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Washing on line [/STRIKE]x 2
Clean out fire
[STRIKE]Make soup for lunch[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Organise tea to come home to[/STRIKE]

Todays extra, make any important calls you've been putting off. If there is any paperwork still needs sorting after the 15 minutes you did on Tuesday, do another 15 minutes

Friday Flyer (well it is for those without kids, spare rooms or dining rooms)

Kids rooms/Spare Rooms

1. [STRIKE]Strip those beds, make sure there is nothing lurking under the mattress while you are there[/STRIKE]
2. [STRIKE]Make sure no dirty laundry on floor or clean laundry waiting to be put away[/STRIKE]
3. [STRIKE]Make sure everything else is in it's place[/STRIKE]
4. [STRIKE]Vacuum the floor and mattress before replacing linen[/STRIKE]
5. Wipe down skirting/light switches/light fitting/door if required and dust anything that needs to be
6. [STRIKE]Empty any bins in the bedrooms, give those a quick clean too[/STRIKE]

[STRIKE]Dining room

1. Clean table cloth, placemats, runners etc
2. Dust where necessary
3. Wipe chairs if required and dust the backs
4. Vacuum dining room floor[/STRIKE] comes under sitting room

hex2

mum of two, sometimes you need to take time off. At the end of the day it is only a house - not worth getting stressed about. set yourself an achievable target instead of a list too long to post. Just do your swish n swipes and stop till tomorrow. Works for me when I have had enough.

pigpen/lil me - ds1 (4 next week) has finally agreed to wear pants at home. we had first dry day this week after a year of trying. He usually gets bored around 11am and does them all in his pants after that.

Pottering gently and my two have just nodded off so a quick dash round upstairs instead of having to do it tonight. Could just snore on the other sofa instead.....

mioliere

Hope everyone's having a good day! I've sorted out my paperwork today! The trouble is I sit down at my desk to sort it out and then I think 'mmm - lets see what's going on on MSE' and before you know it, it's time for dinner! I made lovely Yoghurt Cake from arkonite_babe's fantastic recipe. Thanks! It's great because the base is a carton of yoghurt so you can vary the flavour - today's was black cherry and it is delicious! I don't think it'll last very long here! OH wants it every week - the yoghurt cake, I mean!
Anyway, I'm trying to type this with one hand because I'm eating an apple with the other; oh, now I've made the mouse all sticky! Nicki - icons are brilliant.

pigpen

Hex.. mine was 2 last November.. they are usualy trained by 2 but she is the baby, I am lazy and way too busy to be potty training so she was left.. but she has been pooing in her potty for about 6 months and would have been so easy to do.. today she just took the initiative and went for it herself.. I think she realised I'd never get round to it lol. I've found training the boys REALLY hard work.. the oldest took 3 days when he was 2 and 3 motnhs and the other 2 boys were almost 4 before they got the hang of it and the youngest wore nappies to bed until he was 6.5. My 6 years old daughter still wets every night so wears nappies for bed, she isn't too reliable during the day either.. but is getting better. We do think there is a problem there though as she has improperly formed labia, she had no opening to her labia major when she was born it was still sealed so she wee'd behind a layer of skin and it would force itself out of a tiny hole in the extra hymen (that's what they decided to call it) we aren't certain how deep the fault it.. and can't check until she is much older (at least 14 they said) The older 2 girls were trained at 18 months and the 4 year old was about 20 months. I feel really lazy now for not trying sooner!!

Contrary to popular belief the ones who wore cloth nappies were MUCH harder to train and much older and took much longer than the ones in disposables.. maybe because the ones in 'sposies weren't used to being wet and hated it.

cha97michelle

Friday 23/3:
Kitchen
1. [STRIKE]Clean microwave.[/STRIKE]
2. Clean sink, draining board and wash any plastic drainers/cutlery holders.
3. Clean floor
Tuesday - Living areas & Hall/Porches/Entrance
4. Dust throughout living area and hall/s inc tops of door frames and doors
5. Wipe down skirting
6. Vacuum throughout halls
7. [STRIKE]Tidy away anything that shouldn't be where it is now![/STRIKE]
8. [strike]Make sure entrances aren't blocked [/strike]
9. Clean clocks and screens. TV done
10. Make sure the front door is clean, inside and out
Wednesday - Master bedroom, stairs and landing
11. Check for cobwebs and dust all furniture
12. Remove bed linen and wash
13. Vacuum bedroom floor, stairs, landing and bed
14. Turn mattress before replacing linen if required
15. Clean landing and bedroom window
[strike]Extra if needed, one hotspot, anywhere on the house, make sure it's dampened down before it catches fire![/strike]
Thursday Double Trouble - Study/Pc areas and bathroom
Study
16. Clean PCs, mouse, monitor, keyboard etc
17. Make sure desk is tidy and dust free
18. Vacuum study floor
19. Clean window
Bathroom
20. Clean bath, sink and toilet (inc lid, cistern and flusher)
21. Dust bathroom cabinets/shelves and polish any mirrors
22. Wipe down tiles, make them shine!
23. [strike]Tidy what is left after flinging, make a note what you have too much of and not to buy, and what needs buying[/strike] definitely don't need to buy anything till the next decade
24. Vacuum bathroom floor
25. Clean bathroom window
[strike]Todays extra, make any important calls you've been putting off. [strike]If there is any paperwork still needs sorting after the 15 minutes you did on Tuesday, do another 15 minutes[/strike][/strike]
Friday Flyer (well it is for those without kids or spare rooms)
26. [strike]Strip those beds, make sure there is nothing lurking under the mattress while you are there [/strike] did that on Monday
27. [strike]Make sure no dirty laundry on floor or clean laundry waiting to be put away[/strike]
28. [strike]Make sure everything else is in it's place[/strike]
29. Vacuum the floor
30. Wipe down skirting/light switches/light fitting/door if required and dust anything that needs to be
31. [strike]Empty any bins in the bedrooms, give those a quick clean too[/strike]don't have any
Dining room
32. Clean placemats, [STRIKE]throw out old flowers[/STRIKE] and washed up vase, ready for new bunch DH just bought me
33. Dust where necessary
34. Wipe chairs if required and dust the backs
35. Vacuum dining room floor
[strike]As an extra check those fire alarms again, make sure there aren't any bulbs need replacing[/strike]
Well that's it for the weekend, apart from dailies of course. [strike]Make sure those uniforms are washed, dried and ready for Sunday morning[/strike]
[strike]Face mask[/strike]
[strike]Sort through baby clothes sister gave me[/strike] cheated a bit and just took it all out of bags and put it tidily in the washing basket - will wash and sort next week
Do some of the dreaded ironing
[strike]Bin and recycling out[/strike]
[strike]Transmit shop and scan data[/strike]
[strike]Pack baby bag[/strike]
[strike]Take baby to clinic to get weighed[/strike] now 17Ib15oz - that is huge.
[strike]Go to Yorkshire outlet to try and get baby shoes for wedding (as I forgot that when I bought the suit)[/strike] got two pairs for £16 from clarkes. Unfortunately navy blue, as they don't do black ones that small but it will have to do.
[strike]Pop to ASDA.[/strike] Pick up bounty pack and free £5 voucher. [strike]Get some veggies for the weekend.and next week plus bread/milk and sandwich stuff for DH for next week[/strike] cheated and sent DH instead
[strike]Deal with post[/strike]
[STRIKE]Make baby bottles[/STRIKE]
[strike]Bin and recycling in[/strike]
[strike]Put plastic recycling in garage[/strike]
[strike]Post cheque for ground rent[/strike]
Find new cheque book in filing cabinet and put in downstairs drawer
Shred bits from old cheque book no longer needed
[strike]Make fruit purees[/strike]
[strike]put ironed stuff away from yesterday[/strike]
washing - [strike]towels[/strike], [strike]another load of my jumpers[/strike]
take dry stuff off airers and fold/put away or add to ironing pile
[strike]rescue DH's stuff from TD and fold/sort/put away[/strike]
[strike]put towels in TD[/strike]

• Also took all things that belong upstairs up, will sort through later
• put broken toaster and iron in garage to later be taken to tip
• put cardboard recycling in garage
• put buggy back in car for going out again later
• found microfibre duster upstairs and brought it down to make a start
• found my make up (only been looking for it for 2 weeks, and now i can do a make up trial or two before my friends wedding)
• persuaded the cats to go burn some energy off outside before i strangle them. They can smell chicken in the fridge and won't get out from under my feet cos they think i will feed them it. Will they never learn.

jacket tatties in oven to go with reheated chilli

kitchen a bit of a mess cos there is a fair old bit of washing up to do

had a mega tidy up putting things away upstairs, so it looks less cluttered for now and i should be able to get things almost sorted in a couple of hour clean up. I was thinking to myself why do we not do this for ourselves rather than just when guests come.

I thinki will do a wash up now while waiting for DH to get in and while there is nowt on the telly. Then there will be one less place to do in the morning. I will be having a rum and coke, and sod the diet this evening.

Michelle, x

mumoftwo

For goodness sake Michelle, superwoman or what?? What a list. Well done you:T :T :T :T :T

I've stopped feeling sorry for myself and have taken all your advice (thanks a lot) It is only mess, I left it all this afternoon and took my husbands guide dog for a lovely walk in the park (husband was off work today) It was sunny here today and quite mild, brought the girls home from school and used some good old bribery ( I ordered you that Ashley Tishdale CD, but you only get it when your [STRIKE]crap[/STRIKE] lovely possessions are out of the living room and you tidy your bedroom this weekend.) Well worth the £7.99 I say:D

I hoovered, dusted, gathered all washing including school uniforms, cooked and washed up straight away after tea. I can see kitchen worktops again, took a little break to talk to my sister on the phone, put dishes away, and am going to a meeting at 9pm so I can come home to a tidy place.

Thanks again for all your support. Upstairs is still bad, but like you said, one thing at a time and a quick swish and swipe can do wonders.

Pigpen You are an inspiration to all of us, I only have 2 kids. New start on Monday for both of us..

DeniseNZ

Well done mumoftwo

Friday was a good day for me . . . cleaned bathroom and ensuite; sorted recycling; walked puppy; did some business finance stuff; worked in MILs garden; paid some bills.

Today we're taking puppy to the beach; changing master bed; three loads of laundry; and digging foundations for garden shed out the back Maybe a wee bit of gardening too. I am NOT going to be stressed today :wall:

Have a great Saturday, everyone

lil_me

Wow mumoftwo you really have caught up well!! Pass some of that motivation this way please Also you are allowed to call it a motivator not a bribe when the reward is given after the required behaviour so no need to feel guilty about bribing them

Michelle, you always manage to do loads, I think I need some of what you take on a morning to get motivated too.

Denise good morning, wish we had the weather to go to the beach, think I could just do with a dose of sunshine!

I've done very little more since this afternoon, I did get the shopping done, took Holly to the vets, she definately has kennel cough and had started throwing up blood so is now on anti biotics poor puppy.

I made tea, then ended up collapsing on the bed for just over an hour with the kids watching Thomas and the Magical Railroad. First time I've ever watched it properly as when they are watching things I usually use it as catch up time, enjoyed it actually.

Going to give kitchen a quick once over, sort through fridge and see what needs using quick, just found yoghurt with tomorrows date on so needs doing, remake my bed (spilt something on sheets this morning so had to wash again) put some washing on airers (uniforms) then bedtime.

Beccatje

mumoftwo wrote: »

Pigpen You are an inspiration to all of us, I only have 2 kids. New start on Monday for both of us..

And I've got 5 so I'm smack in the middle!

You are right sis, Pigpen is an inspiration. I will make a new start on monday as well.. and not write the whole week off as I had already done in my head.

It went like:
"Have to work afternoons next week.. hmmm Wednesday morning I'm taking little grub to playgroup so that's wednesday down the tubes..
Thursday morning is dentis appointment and I'm already ........ myself, so that's thursday gone... Friday morning I've got a meeting about child care stuff.. so Friday's a gonner too!! I will do NO cleaning next week!"


But I'm not having it! I will do what I can, when I can, even if it's 15 minutes!!
My house needs to be tidy and clean before I leave for Scotland.

Weekend now is for washing... washing and more washing..
And a birthday visit.

For now.. I've got to do another child pick-up run.. sigh..


Becca