Weekly Home Blessing

I had to take today off as I couldn't get the boys into the backup day care at work and Niki (the nanny) needs the week off to go home. Since it's Monday, I'm doing the Weekly Home Blessing. I'm changing sheets, dusting, vacuuming, winding the grandfather clock, wiping down the kitchen appliances and mopping the kitchen floor. If I have time later, I'll clean out the closet in the hallway. Maybe I should take pictures.

How is Flying Going?

So back to school has come and gone. Phoebe's only missed the bus once so far. Poor thing is sick right now. She came home sick from school yesterday and I kept her home again today as she still has a fever. If she still has one tomorrow, I'll take her to the doctor. She may have strep throat, but I thought it was just a virus. We'll see.

I started trying to exercise most nights, doing the P90X videos. I'm on the 3rd week and it's going well, but there is no way I could do those videos 6 days a week yet. I get so tired some nights. Evening routines are going well. I need to get better about washing my face every night and putting on moisturizer. But the sink dishes are done most nights, I pick out my clothes for the next day and I exercise. In the morning, I'm working on getting to work earlier. I've been drinking a protein shake for breakfast in the morning and that is working out great. I take my vitamins most days.

I'm working on getting my routines stronger, trying not to beat up on myself, making sure the checkbook is balanced and bills get paid, and work gets done at the office. I also want to work on my Financial Control Journal and I'm listening to Pam Young's "The GOOD Book" again.

Hope everyone is joyfully FLYing!

FlyLady Radio Show Coming Back!

I was listening on iTunes to the Flylady Pamper show from 7/28/2011 and they said their regular weekly show will be back on starting 8/18/2011!!! I'm so excited. I've missed her show so much!!! I really do need it to keep my motivation going.

Although things have been going great. We went on vacation the week of 7/18, which is why I've been absent here. But we did great! I had index cards for all of us with our packing list including for toiletries, food stuff and beach stuff. I'll have to see if I can find them and post them here. We also did great that the house was from Saturday to Saturday, which I think is terrific for unpacking when you get back. We got back about 1 PM on Saturday, we got the car unpacked, unpacked the bags as soon as we got in and started a load of laundry. By Sunday, we were all relaxed from the trip back. I don't think we want to go into how that relaxation was gone within 15 minutes of being back at work, LOL.

Pretty soon we'll be doing Back to School planning. Can I say how much I'm looking forward to the kids going back to school! It will be so nice to not be policing computer time and organizing sleep overs.

Happy Flying!

Cozi and Home Routines iPhone App

Today, I got all my schedule updates in Cozi, on the wall calendar and with my work calendar. I do love Cozi as I can take my calendar with me where ever I go. And I can put shopping lists in it, as well as other tasks that need to get done. I was starting to use Cozi to put my daily routines in it, but then I found the Home Routines app for the iPhone. I'm working on keeping to the few tasks I'm growing on my routines using this app now.

I have been doing a great job "Swishing and Swiping" since the beginning of the month. So go me! And on my other blog, I have the update about the physical I had at the doctor's this morning. I'm so proud of me prioritizing that. Hope everyone else is doing well on their routines and other necessary tasks!

Swish & Swipe & Car Wash

But not at the same time! I was very proud of myself yesterday. I started off July's habit properly by swishing and swiping the master bathroom after I got ready for the day. Very good start to July's habit!

I also took my car to the car wash yesterday and when I got home I vacuumed, Windexed the inside of the windows and used Pledge on all the dashboard, leather seats, doors, and such. It looks so clean!!! The car is 10 years old and I want to keep it as fresh and nice-looking for us as possible, as I see no need for having car payments for awhile. I was inspired knowing that Fridays the Flylady way, you should clean out your car and purse. Didn't do the purse yesterday, but I know it's just the wallet I should clean out as the rest is good. I'll do that today.

Today I woke up late as we have no kids until tomorrow and we went out dancing late last night. That was so much fun!!! But now I'm up and showered and dressed, and I'm going to get a few things done around here. Wish me luck!

Morning Re-do and Doctor's Appointments Made

Yesterday I was bad. I left the dishes in the sink, as I told myself I was really tired, but no worries! I got them done this morning while the coffee was brewing, so I'm still starting the day with a shiny sink! I have a lot to get done today at work. I have lots to do on my work list and I've been treating most days like an anti-procrastination day, just popping more things off my list. Sometimes I work to get a few simple things crossed off to make me feel like I've accomplished things.

Did I tell you I made an appointment for a physical next Tuesday??!! So proud of me. I haven't had a physical in years, as between seeing the reproductive doctor for IVF, I have to not miss my annual GYN, as I've had problem pap smears before and I've had two mammograms in the last year. No concerns on the mammogram. They just saw some calcifications, but didn't have a baseline, so they didn't know if that was normal for me, or also could have been from breastfeeding a few months before the test. I get to back for those annually now too. So I have my GYN appointment in November and my annual mammogram scheduled for September. So I can officially say I have no doctor's appointments that need to be made.

Go me!

Very Excited About Baby Steps

The past two days (Monday and today, Tuesday) I have been great about having the coffee pot setup on the timer the night before, working out in the morning before I allow myself to have a cup of coffee (that's my reward - drinking coffee and reading up on blogs after the workout), drinking my water during the day and shining my sink at night. I'm going to continue to report on these and other things I'm trying to anti-procratstinate on while I continue to work on these new habits. I don't want to tackle any other new habits until I get these right. So right now my Evening Routine and Morning Routine consist of the following steps:

Evening Routine
shine sink
setup coffee pot

Morning Routine
wake up and hit the ground FLYing!!!
work out first thing
coffee and blog reading
shower and get dressed to shoes
make bed

The shower and get dressed to shoes and making of my bed, I have no problem with as they are routines that have always been ingrained in my life. Hope everyone else is doing well on baby-stepping their routines. I'm curious to know when Marla will be doing her radio show again? I know Nikki's been sick and I haven't read up on how she's doing right now. Hopefully they will be back soon, as her radio shows always help me keep the right voice in my head!

Adding Habits

So this week, I'm going to start by adding two habits. I'm going to work to make myself a morning workout person. I've always had a hard time with this, but I'm going to work hard every day this week to work out in the morning as soon as I wake up. I'll continue with drinking my water and shining my sink. The other habit I'm going to try to have is setting up the coffee pot the night before. I did do it tonight. I'm going to reward myself for working out by drinking a cup of coffee and reading stuff on the computer. Sounds like a plan for this week, eh?

Today is Better and Bed Making

I wrote on my other blog Joys in My Life that today was much better than yesterday and made up for it a lot. I got a lot accomplished at home with some bills, laundry, cleaned up my desk and ran some errands. I'm still doing good with my sink shining and drinking 2 of my water bottles a day and I realized there is one habit I will not need to work on this year, making my bed every day. It's really something I've always done. When I was young and at home, college and now as a grown up. So when that habit does come up over the next year, I'll pick something else, LOL. Well off to have a good weekend!

Rough Day

I already posted why I had a rough day on my other blog http://joysinmylife.blogspot.com so I won't bore you with the details.

But I'm still doing well with my water drinking and sink shining, so I'm going to go give myself a mani/pedi and a facial and drink a glass of wine. Sounds like a great idea to Finally Love Myself today.

Back on the Bandwagon

I've made a decision to take it easy on myself again and start Flying again but really taking babysteps. I have a tendency to jump in with a full routine, usually my evening routine is very long, and then I burn out. I want to enroll the boys in preschool sometime next year, but I know that getting three kids out the door every day and getting dinner on the table, paying the bills, and still finding time to be me can seem overwhelming. So I've decided to start with just two things! That's it just two things. I'm doing the habit of the month of drinking my water and keeping my sink shiny every evening before bed.

I've been good all week. Every day this week, I've been managing to drink 2 full water bottles (I have a SIGG 1L bottle which looks exactly like the pictured one). That should be a bit over 8 glasses of water, so I'm feeling pretty good about this goal right now. We've also been keeping our sink shiny, which right now is easy to do as the kids are all at their grandparents' house for these two weeks (this and next). We ate leftovers last night and popped everything into the dishwasher directly. They didn't even make it to the sink. My plan is to keep this up and make sure it sticks when the kids get back, so I plan to keep up with the sink habit for the month of July as well before I try to add anything else. I'll be picking up a third habit as July comes on with whatever the July Flylady habit is, which I can't remember yet.

How are you doing with any new habits you are trying to get to stick? Do you find yourself trying to implement a full routine and all good habits, or have you stepped back and realized one habit at a time is for the best?

Ugh! Rough Day

I woke up from a nightmare at 3:30 AM this morning. I dreamt Phoebe was kidnapped. Couldn't go back to sleep. Wasn't thinking about the nightmare, kept thinking about work. That usually never happens to me. Then I started watching a movie to take my mind off things. Ended up watching Showgirls (movie) on cable. Kyle McLaughlin is in that movie and it's only redeeming feature. I had coffee and a danish at 6:30AM and it gave me heartburn, which is very unusual for me. I took a Pepcid and got in the shower, drove to work drinking water, trying to calm my stomach down. I didn't eat anything right away. Looked at work emails. One of my managers resigned today. Ugh. I'm already trying to hire two people in that area. Guess I now have one more I need. Then I talked with a co-worker, as I was feeling sensitive about something work related, which is what was keeping me up. I know I'm being sensitive as I'm tired. I felt better after talking to her, got some coffee and a muffin and I've been feeling a bit better. Now I just feel off.

I talked to DH and he's been out of town overnight. He said he slept horrible last night too. So did one of my other co-workers. Must be something going around. I'm sure everything will be better tomorrow. Or at least after dinner. I'm making my vegetarian stir fried noodles tonight. Last time I made that, the boys were licking the sauce off their plates, they liked it so much. All I do want to do right now is go home and snuggle my three kids. That would make everything better.