Flylady Days 30 and 31

Day 30: Check calender for next months events.

Good idea. I missed my scheduled nursery day this month. I didn't put it on my calender. It was pinned to my fridge but I just missed it anyway. I need to stay ahead.

We don't have any birthdays next month so the only thing right now I can see to keep in mind is my time in the nursery at church.

I looked at day 31 today and there isn't anything to do. FlyLady is proud of me. :)

I have started adding some of the Zone cleaning and am working on adding some weekly habits.

I will not give up!! I will fly someday, I will soar. Yee haw.

Flylady - Day 29

Ok. Time for my FlyLady post.

Day 29: Set time to enjoy the Weekly Pamper Mission. These are listed on the FlyLady web site. I am going to check them out. I have some ideas myself. I just need to figure out when would be a good time to do it.

Here are a few things I will do:
-Milk bath. If you have never done this before, you should try it. Really. Of course I have fresh goat milk to use and I come out of the bath feeling soft and silky.

-Do my nails.

_This I got off Flylady...Soak feet in warm water with some oil and marbles. The marbles help massage the feet. This I can't wait to try.

Flylady - Day 28 and counting

Today, Day 28. Eat good foods, drink water and get your rest. I have put this in my control journal to remind me.

I started a page in my CT that is for this purpose. I have decided to cut back on the amount of sugar I am taking in. I found a work sheet online that I want to do with my son. We list common foods that we eat and how much sugar is in each. Then we work on lowering the sugar we consume. I have the worksheet printed but haven't looked over it with Jonathan.

It mentions that according to the US Department of Agriculture, people consuming 2,000 calories a day should eat no more than about 10 teaspoons of refined sugar per day. That is 40 grams or 1 can of soda. WOW.

I have been doing pretty good on this. There are days we go to DQ and get a Blizzard. At our DQ, the Blizzards, coke floats and drinks are only .99 cents from 3-5pm on week days. That is hard to stay away from. LOL. Anywho, if I have a blizzard one day, I will cut down even more the next day. A Banana Split Blizzard has 58 grams of sugar, that is 14 1/2 teaspoons of sugar. eeekk.

I am going in baby steps to a healthier life. Right now, Cut Down on Sugar. When I get that down pretty good, I will add another step. Not sure what it will be though.

Ok, now I am thirsty. I need water!!
See ya!

Flylady Day 27

Today is Thursday, and it has been 27 days since I started following the baby steps at FlyLady. I am excited that I have stuck to it this long. I have enjoyed putting together my Control Journal. I do hope that once the baby steps are done I don't give up and quit. I really like going and seeing what my new habit is going to be. I do believe I will always keep my sink shiny. I really like that enough to not let it go.

The swish and swipe in the bathroom...I don't like doing it but I do like the clean bathroom every day. I was doing it right when I got up but I think I am going to change that and do it when I get back from the goats. That way I am not waking up cleaning the bathroom. ugg..

Since I started doing Kelly's mission's, it gives me something specific to work on, like this week we are cleaning in the kitchen. I cleaned out my pantry today and there is lots more room in there now. :)

Today's baby step is "What's For Dinner?" I need to think about what is for dinner before 6 pm that day. This will be helpful. LOL. There have been so many day that I am like, "what am I going to fix for dinner?" and it is time to be eating. Tonight we are having shake and baked chicken tacos.

I need to get my control journal out and add this habit to it. I would like to know that morning what I am having for dinner so I will put it in my morning routine.

Day 25 on FlyLady.net says to read how the routines got started. That was interesting. She says your house didn't get dirty over night so don't expect it to get cleaned in a day.

Anywho, on to today, Day 26... I was to read the last sentence in any FlyLady email. I did it and am not going to tell what it is. nany, nany, boo boo. :)

Yesterday, I did my mission for the day. I cleaned out from under my kitchen sink. I didn't throw EVERYthing away but I did move some stuff out and toss some. I am working on making room for my dish drainer so I can start storing it there instead of on the counter top. It seems there are always dishes in it... This is something that will take some time to work on, washing the dishes and putting them up right away.

I took some time to organize some of my drawers in my dresser. Much nicer to look at.

I also took some stuff that was outside to the storage. It is amazing what a little rain will make a person do. I didn't want it getting wet so what other choice did I have? hehe. I also loaded the car with stuff to take to Goodwill as I go by there tomorrow.

Today, the mission is to declutter the plastic wares. Get rid of extra lids and old melted bowls etc. I hardly have any of this stuff. We don't have a microwave so our stuff has to be warmed either on the stove or in the toaster oven. Plastic don't work too well there. LOL. So, instead of doing this, I cleaned around my washer and dryer which is close to the kitchen. There was some old stuff that needed throwing away and I washed off the bleach bottles and soap bottles. It is looking much better over there. I still have a little more to do.

Have a good day.

Catching up and Flying

Now, on to my Flying...

I have been trucking right along, just not having time to write about it.

I am having a hard time remembering where I left off, what day I last posted about.

Over the weekend, I started working on getting my Control Journal organized and filled out. I had forgotten there were baby steps to getting this done until I came to day 22 and it said, " Do you know where your Control Journal is?"

I did know where it was and am using it a lot but I went to a link and seen the baby steps to filling out and organizing the CT. So I have been working on that some.

Yesterday was Day 23 and I have set my afternoon routines. This was actually part of the Control Journal baby steps so I was a little ahead.

Today, Day 24 said to add Swish and Swipe to my morning routine. Ha, done that. Ye haw.

One of the baby steps for the CT was to make a page for Weekly plans. It mentioned doing Kelly's Missions which are posted each day. On Sunday, an email comes with the missions for the whole week so I printed them off.

This week we are working in the kitchen. I cleaned my counter tops today. I moved all the stuff around and got all the hidden dust bunnies and bread crumbs.

Monday are also the Weekly Home Blessing Hour which you can read about here.


Ok, I need to get ready for bed. This computer should have been off 45 minutes ago...oops. :)

My FlyLady update and Day 20.

I wanted to update my FlyLady experience.


So far my control Journal says:


Morning Routine:


-Get Dressed to shoes....
I have been doing this pretty good. It really isn't a hard struggle for me. I guess it was already a habit. Now, I do take my shoes off sometimes during the day but can't go too long without them.


-Swish & Swipe the bathroom....
I have been doing this pretty good lately. I felt like I was using too many paper towels. The other day we went shopping and I was going to get some cheap paper towels to use but I found some reusable wipes. Hummm. I thought. These would probably work pretty good. I bought two packages, one for the bathroom and one for the kitchen. So far I am pleased with them.

-Recognize negative voices and change them...
Been dong pretty good on this. It takes lots of work.





-Read reminders. Emails from Flylady.
I do this and it is encouraging.



_Hot Spots...
I have one Hot Spot that I have been keeping cleaned. I am so proud...:) It has always been a problem and it always made me feel yucky when I seen it. Now I smile! when I look there. I put out this spot in the mornings. My other big hot spot is in my room and I don't do as good on it. I tend to leave a pile of books I am reading/looking at by my bed.


-Declutter 15 minutes....
I have been decluttering but I don't set the timer. I really should so I can make sure I do go at least 15 minutes.



-5 minute room rescue...
Haven't been doing this the way I would like too.



-15 minutes of inspiration....
This could use some work. I have added a few things to my control journal that inspire me. Some are scriptures, so are just emails or blogs that I printed out.



-Look at calender....
I printed a couple of calender pages for this month. One for my control journal and one for the rest of the family to see.



-Make bed....
My husband usually does this. I was going to get Little Man to start making his every morning but I haven't done too good on that. Something to work on.



-Read 11 Commandments...
These are interesting and do inspire me or cause me to want to do them.


Now today is the 20th day in my FlyLady adventure. It says to add laundry to my daily routine. Ok. This months habit to get into is laundry so I have started doing 1 -2 loads a day. Right now I am washing load number 3. These are some smaller clothes that my son had outgrown a long time ago and they were sitting by the washer since the yard sale. Well, I am getting them cleaned and they will go to Goodwill along with a lot of the other leftover yard sale stuff.

I like hanging the clothes out on the line. Well, I don't just like the process but it saves money on electricity and I get to get outside and get some vitamin D (sun shine). Clothes dry pretty quick on these HOT days. These clothes were washed and hung out this morning and they are already put up. I have started trying something new...I take my hangers outside with me and hang the clothes as I take them down. The ones that fold, I fold them before I put them in the basket. I just started this yesterday and I like it so far. It saves a few minutes in the whole process.

Now, the Night Routine:

-Put out Hot Spots...

This is the one by the bed right now...

-Set out clothes...

I don't do this every night but most.

-Shine Sink....

I have only missed one night since I started. That was accident.

-Go to bed at a decent hour and stick to it.

This one is hard to get in the habit of. I have been gone late a couple times this week but I think I still got to bed by 10. Maybe 10:30 one night.

I feel I am doing good. I still feel better about my house and myself so I think it is worth the effort.

Flylady Day 19

I missed a few days of flying since I worked and was worn out when I got home. I am doing day 19 on FlyLady.

I am to read a testimonial.......

.....Done that.

Now I need to get busy working and cleaning if I can stay awake. I want a nap...

I have some decluttering to do since the yard sale. Everything is still a mess since I haven't been home and/or in the mood to clean. Also, when it is so hot, I don't want to do much.

Here is what I need to get done. I will work a little at a time and eventually it will be gone.

Flylady Days 17 and 18

Yesterday we had our yard sale. We did pretty good. Better than the last yard sale we had.

It was later in the day when I checked what I was to do on Day 17 on Flylady.net.
It was to set a specific bed time and stick to it. I have wanted to do this for a long time but it has been hard getting baths and all done and still get in bed at a decent time. I have to figure out when to actually start getting ready for bed. One thing that bogs me down is this computer. I think it needs to be turned off early so I can focus on bed time routines. Here is what I am planning:

-Computer off by 7:30 pm
-Baths for 3 people done by 8:30
-In bed by 9 for the little man and
-hopefully for husband and myself, 9:30

This way I can get up early and enjoy the morning sipping coffee in the porch swing before I go milk and feed the goats.

I will let you know later how it is going.

Now for today, Day 18:

I am to read FlyLady's 11 commandments. Oh boy.. Hang on, I am going to read it now....

...Ok, I read them. I think I will print them and put them in my control journal so I can look at them often. Number 4 is the one to work on...

Don't allow yourself to be sidetracked by the computer.

See, told you it was what was messing me up. LOL.

So far I have been doing good on shining my sink and swishing and swiping the bathroom. I need to work more on decluttering. I kind of let it go since I was getting ready for the yard sale. Now my house it really a mess with all the stuff that didn't sell. I am thinking Good Will now. I just don't want to see it anymore!!

I have printed out a calender with some of our events/appointments on it. The main one that my son won't let me forget is his birthday this month. He is turning 6. Can't believe it has been that long since he came into our life. I am truly blessed by his presents.

I have been setting my clothes out most of the time. I did forget last night but all I wanted to do was go to bed!! I was working on getting there at a decent time like I am suppose to. LOL.

This months habit to get into is Laundry. FlyLady says one load a day keeps chaos away.
I will read about this and then start practicing it this month. I will report on this habit later.

Ok, now I am off to check my control journal and print those commandments for reviewing later.
Bye

Flylady, Day 16

Ok, yesterday I said I had been doing the Flylady routines for 3 weeks. Hahaha, I was wrong, it has only been TWO weeks. I am STARTING the 3rd week.

I am currently on Day 16. I am to read a FlyLady email. That wasn't hard, I read about 3 of them. Some are testimonies from other Flyladies about how the system or a tool is working for them. Some are interesting, some I could do without.

I asked my husband last night if I seemed different. He said yes. He asked if it was because of the FlyLady site and what I was doing with the house. I said I think it is. He asked if I felt different, I said yes. It is working for me. YES!!

Flylady, Day 15

I have been using FlyLady for 3 weeks now and I can feel a difference. I feel better about myself and my house.

Today was Day 15. Make your bed.

Since this already gets done anyway, I will be working on my son's bed. Getting him to make his each morning. He was doing pretty good a few weeks ago but got out of the habit. Time to start again.

A made bed is always much nicer to look at and it keeps you from crawling back in later in the day. (I just lay on top of mine) LOL.

BTW, my husband is the one that usually makes the bed since he is usually the last one out.

Flylady, Day 14

I think I must have skipped my baby step on FlyLady yesterday. So, I am on Day 14 today.

Go read one of Kelley's essays. It is a guide on how to use a calender. Ok, this should be interesting.

I have been faithful in keeping my sink shiny.

Yesterday I declutter a LOT in the master bedroom. We are getting ready for that yard sale. I have more to go through today. I want it to be a BIG yard sale!! I want people to want to stop.

I got my vanity area cleaned up. It don't look this good now though. LOL. I had to clean off the bed before we could go to sleep.

Ok, I am off to read that essay and declutter some more. See ya tomorrow.

Flylady Day 13

I got slightly off track this last weekend. I went to sell soap at Trade Days.

I kept my sink shining and kept swishing and swiping in the bathroom so that was a good feeling. There were night I didn't want to shine that sink but I did it anyway. I was always glad I did in the morning.

I started day 13 today. I was to select one of Kelly's missions and do it. I choose to take care of something in the bedroom. I had a pile of fabric that I had washed that I kept moving from basket to bed and then back to the basket. I put it in a box so I can use it later for a sewing project I plan to do.

I continued to work on my morning routines today. One thing I did that I am sooo glad to do is take the computer desk out of our room. I was able to clean where it was and then I moved my dressing vanity there so my husband would have more room on his side. I still have a lot of cleaning to do in there but it is nice to have accomplished this.

We have a bathroom that isn't a bathroom yet in our room and it is full of stuff. I did my 5 minutes room rescue there. We put the filling cabinets in there and I had to move stuff around to get it in there. Now I have to work on this room more later on also.

Yesterday was Day 10 in the baby steps at Flylady.net.

It said: You can do anything for 15 minutes. I did a lot of that yesterday. I sat most of the day and sewed on my quilt.

I had planned to declutter the closet but my back was bothering me so I gave that up. I might have even worked on it 5 minutes before I quit?? Hum. didn't think about that. We did declutter on Little Man's room. I am going to continue that each day for 5 minutes. I think that will not be so overwhelming for me or him.

Ok, so today is day 11:
Ok, that is easy....We are going to add an inspirational page to our Control Journal. I am to write down inspirational phrases for 15 minutes. I may spread this through out the day and not just 15 minutes straight.

This morning I got up a little earlier. I wanted to enjoy the nice cool weather before it got too hot. Now I see it is only going to be in the 80's today. LOVE IT!!

Now I am sitting here blogging instead of being outside. I do have the front door open and I can hear the drip drop of rain. It isn't raining hard but thank the Lord for it anyway. We can use all we get.

I have been practicing Swish and Swipe in the bathroom. I do it right after my morning trip to there, before I even leave the room I swish the toilet, and then grab a paper towel and swipe the mirror, sink and then the outside of the toilet and floor around it. It is so much nicer to go in there all day and have a clean toilet.

All this cleaning is getting noticed by my DH. In the past I would clean hoping he would notice but this time, it is for ME. I am going to FLY. (Finally Love Myself!)

God Bless and Good Day!

Decluttering on day 9 ...Flylady style

I got my binder put together. I pulled out the binder yesterday, well, late last night and washed the dust off and then this morning put my paper in. I wrote my agenda for the day...

Morning Routine

-Get dressed to shoes, hair etc. (Done)

-Write positive things (done)

-Read reminders 2 minutes (done)

-Hot Spots---2 minutes (done but will do more)

Later:

-Make Bread

-Wash whites (done)

-sweep hall

-Set out clothes for Wednesday

That is all I put in it today.

Oh, I can't forget.....

Shine sink!! I do this right before bed.

It really makes a difference.

Today is Day 9:

Declutter a few minutes at a time. Add a 5 minute room rescue to Morning Routine.

I guess I did that this morning while I thought I was working on a hot spot. I guess the hot spot needed decluttering. hahaha. I still have a ways to go with it.

Ok Beth, here is my "in between" picture. I have been working on this for a few days. I really am ready for this to be out of my room so I will stop piling stuff on it.

Since starting the baby steps at FlyLady I have started feeling better about myself and my house. I realize I have a long way to go and I might even stop for a bit but I know I can jump right back in when and if I do.

So far these are the things I do each day.

Morning Routine
- Get up and get dressed to lace up shoes; fixing your hair and face
- Looking at your posted reminders in the kitchen and bathroom
- Reading 2 minutes of reminders
- Recognizing the negative voices and changing them; YOU ARE FLYing NOW!
- Put out your Hot Spots for 2 minutes

Before Bed Routine
- Keep your sink shining
-Lay out your clothes for tomorrow
- Put out your Hot Spot

Now I started Day 8:
-I am to get a three ring binder and put paper in it.
I think I know where this is leading. It will soon be a Control Journal. I will have to read more about that later. I don't want to get too far ahead or I will get discouraged. Now, I am off to find that binder and paper. I know there is some around here somewhere, probably in a hot spot. :)

Cleaning the FlyLady way

As stated yesterday I am flying with Flylady and following her baby steps to a new me and new home. I am learning to love myself.

I started day 7 today and here is how it goes:

Day 7: Pick out your clothes.

I am suppose to pick out my clothes for the next day. I knew this was coming and so I practices it last night. Getting ready for church was a breeze. My skirt was out and even ironed. I had my shirt picked out and hanging ready to grab. Now this will be a good habit to be in.

Now, here it is almost 9 pm and I am just reading my to do for the day and almost forgot...I need to pick out some clothes for tomorrow. I don't think it will be too hard since it is Monday and I don't have anywhere to go. It will be hot so it will be shorts for sure.

I also need to write down some stuff I want to get done. I am going to work a few minutes each day on Hot Spots and getting ready for a garage sale.