Flying....

Not your ordinary flying. No. This is different and it starts this month--again. Yes, I found her site in the late 90's and worked a wee tad to accomplish getting past the baby steps. Life just got in the way (yes, that is an excuse) and I didn't pursue completing this change in my habits. Since I have claimed 2012 as the Year of Blessings, I thought it was fitting to revisit Flylady. Afterall, she teaches how important it is to bless your home and your family just by implementing a few habits. My favorite part? It's easy and straight-forward. The process begins with a simple act of keeping my kitchen sink shined.

All week long I have had a shined sink. It just makes me feel better. It looks good--except when I came home yesterday to someones dirties after making rice krispie treats that I never got to see or taste. A quick text message to the culprit will hopefully curtail any further 'gifts'. I also sent another text to let the younger potential culprit know the sink shining efforts. Now I hope they listen. My dh sure has...he is actually either putting his dishes in the dishwasher or washing them immediately after using them. Again, it's a good feeling to see a shiny sink. Today I pulled out my bottle of Stanley stuff that polishes & puts a protective coat on my sink and really polished it up to a shine. I like it.

I've also worked in Zone 1--front door, entry & dining room. My tree is finally down --dh just carted the box out to the patio until he can get out to the storage building tomorrow. I have a handful of things to put into another crate before the very last of Christmas gets moved into storage. But, in true baby-step fashion: 15 minutes, declutter, clean & organize (admittedly, I don't have a lot to organize in those spaces). Now my front door is washed inside and out, the exterior entry zone is swept, de-cobwebbed & has a new welcome mat & the vacuuming is complete. The dining room was pretty much done since we had kept it that way during the holidays--I just did a wee bit of spiffing there. As I said, I'm doing the baby steps and since I work all week, I just did what I could in the mornings and evenings. I didn't stress myself or play the 'defeated' recording in my mind. I'm not going to worry about it because I'm just going to plug along doing what I can, when I can, and expand as I can. It's the Flylady way!