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.

Cool wedding video on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-94JhLEiN0



I wanted to share this video. I was going to embed it but I can't get the code to copy and paste. It is the first time to try and I don't know what I am doing wrong.



This is a video of a wedding intrance. I watched it 4 times. It is so cool. Enjoy.

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!