Okay I am guilty, I totally missed posting our new daily baby step. But to be honest....know one seemed to be knocking down my door reminding me....sooo..... where are you all in the baby steps?
I must say that I don't follow them all to the T. For me the Flylady is about getting into a good routine. Her routine may not be perfect for me just as it is, but it is helping me get back in gear. I have been going to bed with my sink cleaned out, which does feel SO good. I have been getting up and getting dressed, but I will be honest, I don't always wear shoes, I understand the theory, but I LOVE to be barefoot and my house is so hot in the summer. I have been getting a little better about deleting my emails, but I do still have over 5000 that need to be deleted. I have been working on it a little at a time. My bed has been made, which makes me smile everytime I walk in the room. I have also been working on my Hot Spots, even though sometimes I feel like they are taking over! But I must admit, I don't have a control journal. What I do have is a Google Desktop as my home page on my computer. It has my email, my google reader for my blogs, the weather forecast, and it has a sticky note widget. On the sticky note I have my routine typed out. So I know this is NOT what the Fly Lady had in mind and it is on my to do list to make a real one, but for me, I look at my computer a hundred times a day so everytime I check that addicting google reader, I look at my routine and see what needs done, so for now, that works for me.
The good news is that knowing that I have to report to you/this blog helps me keep up with my routine. Also late night phone calls (when we should be in bed... ahem... you know who you are...) from friends who also follow this blog are great peer pressure to shine that sink and get to bed! :-)
The other great thing that has been happening is that I have been working with my son on cleaning up after himself more and teaching him organization. He is learning where things go and is getting a better routine of his own.
I do apologize for being behind, but let me tell you what I have been doing with my timer the last couple days....potty training. Yep, that's where I have been. That good ole Fly Lady trick with the timer has been working like a charm for my son. I have been setting it for 20 minutes and he has been stopping everything every 20 minutes and running to the potty. It has been working great! He has only had a couple of small accidents and we are just hoping that by the end of the summer we will know longer need pull ups at all!
Do they make a timer in the shape of a potty? Someone should!
I know Fly Lady calls them Commandments but I prefer to call them rules or guidelines. I would prefer to think of the only Commandments that I live by are the Ten Commandments.
If you are receiving the Fly Lady emails you have probably seen emails from her friend Kelly. She also has little missions that break our homes into "zones" that we will focus on. Up until now we have been ignoring pretty much everything but the Baby Steps, but today we are going to pick one of Kelly's missions and go for it!
