Frist kind of Monday

Had a great morning at The Frist Center of Visual Arts...Art Museum. Two of my friends along with their beautiful daughters joined Punkindoodle and I for a culture outing. We saw the Medieval Art Exhibit and then headed up to ArtQuest for a few hours of creative fun. So glad we turned this cool yucky Monday morning into something memorable...when we walked out the front doors the sky cleared and the sun shone brightly. YAY!

FlyLady Babysteps Day #10

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- 5 Minute Room Rescue (pick any room in the house) set your timer and go!

Before Bed Routine
- Keep your sink shining
- Lay out your clothes for tomorrow
- Put out your Hot Spot (I have to do this twice a day) It makes me smile in the morning!

We have already been using our timers for 2 minutes and now 5 minutes. Today we are going to learn the power of just 15 minutes. You can do anything for 15 minutes. This is all about getting started and giving ourselves permission to stop when the timer goes off. You cannot restart the timer either. This is not a race to finish in 15 minutes either! The timer helps to keep us focused on what we are doing.

Now set your timer for 15 minutes and go gather up all the trash you can find to throw away and put it in the garbage can outside. Then set your timer for another 15 minutes and sit down and put your feet up and read a favorite magazine till the timer goes off.

FlyLady Babystep Day #9

Here is what we are already doing; Look in your Control Journal; leave the sticky notes up to help remind you. It takes us 28 days to develop a new habit. These are just BabySteps on our way to a new way of living.

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 (I have to do this twice a day) It makes me smile in the morning!

Today we are going to learn how to declutter our homes a few minutes at a time with some fun tools that I know you have been wondering about from the reminders you have been reading in our emails. Making it fun will get the job done!
http://flylady.net/pages/FLYingLessons_Declutter.asp
Add a 5 minute room rescue to your Morning Routine.

The making of a tree house

My boy loves to be outside. Hubby had to go into town this morning for a media appearance and left him outside playing. I went to check on him a little while ago and called out to him. "Hey Buddy what are you doing?" He said, "Oh, just sitting here on a log." He then tells me about all the wonderful things he saw. A raccoon and a black cat. He loves the outdoors so much that his dad is building him a tree house. He started it last year and just when he was making progress a tree fell on top of it. Yesterday he rebuilt the floor and raised a few walls. Looking good. My boy is already enjoying it...he just ran through to get his BB gun and is sitting on it with legs dangling shooting into the woods. He is in little boy paradise!

Felt a little creative so went on a treasure hunt.

Found this gravy boat at Goodwill for $0.99 and the birds were in a pack at the Dollar Tree. Found these plates at the Goodwill bought 3. 2 were 1/2 off so I got them for $0.24, the other one was $0.49. Bought 2 stamps out of the $1.00 bin at Michaels and VIOLA! The other plate is already in my kitchen window next to the gravy boat...you can see it in the above picture.

One of the many blogs I have been following lately gave me the idea about stamping a plate. Most of my inspiration though came from this post...Went to 2 different Dollar Trees looking for the flour sack tea towels...no luck...then I saw that he went in October.

Ear Infections are MEAN!

My baby has been fighting a cold all week. Thursday night an ear infection kept the two of us up all night. Do not like it when she is in pain...especially that much...nothing would relieve it. The doctor gave us an antibotic yesterday that has done wonders for her today...but last night not so much. She was crying every five minutes. Finally we found some ear drops that we had forgotten we had. Thank you Lord they gave her some relief from all the pressure. She slept through the night last night and feels like 1/2 million bucks today...still waiting on feeling like a million.

FlyLady Day#8

Here you are; you have been FLYing for a whole week. I am so proud of you. Lets review your new habits. I am going to break them down into what you do each morning and what you do each evening.

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 (I have to do this twice a day) It makes me smile in the morning!

Over the last week we have introduced you to our reminders and the basis of our routines. As you establish these habits it will become easy to add another habit for you to practice.

Today I want you to find an old three ring binder and just put some paper in it. Then at the top of one page write Morning Routine and on the top of another page write Before Bed Routine all in pencil. This is a working document; do not allow your perfectionism to interfere with the process. Now you can write your simple routines on each page.