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Nov. 21st, 2006 08:36 amOK, sometimes these things are offensive to me, but this time... well... Nazi Gingerbread Men.
Nov. 21st, 2006
FlyLady Day 21
Nov. 21st, 2006 09:52 amToday we are supposed to look at the "Ask Flylady" portion of the website. Today's question actually addresses one issue that many people here have raised, and something that I think needs to be made more clear from the get-go. The questioner has a back injury and can't do anything that involves bending and asks how she's supposed to make her bed. FlyLady suggests a method, and then reminds us of the following: "Let go of your perfectionism and take care of yourself." This is the first reference I've seen in the "beginner baby steps" that suggests modifying the system. I feel like that needs to be made more clear up front.
Yesterday evening a "mission" came through for the master bedroom - to do a "27 fling boogie" today. I did mine last night - when I discovered that I couldn't get all of my sweaters/sweatshirts into the tub where they lived, I hauled all of them out and pruned. Then I pruned my drawers in the dresser. Then I did the closet. I have one big trash bag of stuff that's too ratty to go to the Salvation Army, and piles and piles of stuff that I've cataloged and will be dropping off later today. I stopped counting at 33 items gotten rid of, and man do I feel free. There are some pretty decent things in there - just ones that I don't wear anymore - an I hope that they can bring warmth and/or joy to someone, whether as a holiday gift or just in filling a need.
Yesterday evening a "mission" came through for the master bedroom - to do a "27 fling boogie" today. I did mine last night - when I discovered that I couldn't get all of my sweaters/sweatshirts into the tub where they lived, I hauled all of them out and pruned. Then I pruned my drawers in the dresser. Then I did the closet. I have one big trash bag of stuff that's too ratty to go to the Salvation Army, and piles and piles of stuff that I've cataloged and will be dropping off later today. I stopped counting at 33 items gotten rid of, and man do I feel free. There are some pretty decent things in there - just ones that I don't wear anymore - an I hope that they can bring warmth and/or joy to someone, whether as a holiday gift or just in filling a need.
Travels with Toddlers
Nov. 21st, 2006 10:51 amWe're off to M's parents' place tomorrow morning (in fact, we'll already be there by this time tomorrow) so I'm getting ready to pack. Anyone who's ever traveled with a baby/toddler knows that you have to pack WAAAAAY more stuff than you ever thought you'd take anywhere with you. Our stuff needs have actually gone way down - now that TRex doesn't upchuck all over things on a daily basis, and now that we don't have to haul bottles and breast pumps and all that stuff (I cannot BELIEVE that this time last year I was just cutting down to 3 pumps a day... but that's an entirely different story). Anyway. Right now TRex has very specific wardrobe-related desires. Specifically, she wants to wear a hoodie with pockets EVERY DAY. If a garment has both pockets and a hood, she loves it. (Another aside: I need to get in the habit of checking her pockets before I do laundry. Yesterday I washed a wooden pepperoni. It came out fine.) So I'm laying out outfits for her for the trip, and making sure that each one involves a shirt that has EITHER a hood OR pockets (because we don't have enough with both). But it might be too warm to wear sweatshirts everyday, so I have to also put in a handful of long-sleeved t-shirts, too. And dress-up clothes for Thanksgiving dinner, and for the family pictures we're getting tomorrow night.
Oy.
It was really funny; yesterday she decided she wanted to wear her pink sweatpants, so I pulled out her "Mummy's Girl" shirt to go with it. It wasn't long before she'd added a duster-length sweater and her little brown T-strap shoes. And then we went out, so we plopped a purple parka on top of the whole thing. She looked very, very silly. I commented that she'd dressed herself to one of the other moms at toddler gym and she replied, "My kids don't even know that's an option. They wear what I put on them." *shrug* Yeah, her kids look a lot more put-together than mine does, but do I really care. Nah...
ETA: Today she picked out her kitty-cat halloween socks, so I added her "Monster Rocker" hoodie t-shirt and halloween pants to it. At first she wanted her brown shoes, but then when we left for daycare adn she saw me putting on my hiking boots, she decided she needed boots too. I asked her if she wanted her pink (moon) boots or her ladybug boots. She picked the bugs, and off we went.
Oy.
It was really funny; yesterday she decided she wanted to wear her pink sweatpants, so I pulled out her "Mummy's Girl" shirt to go with it. It wasn't long before she'd added a duster-length sweater and her little brown T-strap shoes. And then we went out, so we plopped a purple parka on top of the whole thing. She looked very, very silly. I commented that she'd dressed herself to one of the other moms at toddler gym and she replied, "My kids don't even know that's an option. They wear what I put on them." *shrug* Yeah, her kids look a lot more put-together than mine does, but do I really care. Nah...
ETA: Today she picked out her kitty-cat halloween socks, so I added her "Monster Rocker" hoodie t-shirt and halloween pants to it. At first she wanted her brown shoes, but then when we left for daycare adn she saw me putting on my hiking boots, she decided she needed boots too. I asked her if she wanted her pink (moon) boots or her ladybug boots. She picked the bugs, and off we went.