You have to make the time

Oh Fly Lady, I love you.

I told you all how I receive about 10 emails a day from Fly Lady, and after 2 or 3 days, yes I know your smart! That is like 20 to 30 emails just from her! Some are reminders...

Go to Bed at 10. (I get this one at 8)
Get up and do your morning routine.
Plan what's for dinner. (morning email)

Then there is the testimony emails, most I read, or skim, some I just delete. (I don't read the ones for older kids, yes you can teach your kids to fly right along with you!) It's great reading from others that this is really working. That if I am down I can get back up. And that I am not the only nut that is excited about my shiny sink.

Then there are the emails from Fly Lady just about everything. Like the one about Time in a bottle. It was great, and a quote that I have heard before

"When you say you don't have the time to do something. That is not true. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. It's just what you choose to do with them"

Everything from sleeping to eating and working is your basics. But when I do all my art work, read a book, or take the time to blog, this is what I choose to do with my spare time. Some people watch t.v. or go out with friends. It's just what you do.

So back to Fly Lady and the time in a bottle. She had mentioned how cool it would be if you could go into your neat and tidy bathroom, into the medicine cabinet, and find a bottle of time. And you could take as much as needed for that day.

Well you can in a weird kinda way. There is things to do, prep work. That makes saving time possible. Fly Lady says your night routine is the most important, and I agree. If I do stuff for the next day, it goes so much better for me. For me it's making the coffee and having all the sippys and bottles lined up for the next day, have the dishwasher loaded and ran before bed. If all the dishes are out of my sink I can function better it seems in the morning.

Also having my clothes laid out, and the kids for the next day. There is little steps like having my purse, and or the diaper bag all packed and ready to go. And yes at night I am not in the mood for all this. But if I do it early enough, between feedings and getting Spaghetti off to work, I can get ready.

Some of the other emails were about, letting yourself be less then perfect, and seeing things through your childs eyes, time in a bottle, and finding peace during the Holiday Season. These are just a few paragraphs, either from other Flybabies, or FlyLady herself.

I want to be prepared, and I want to have a place for everything. It will take time. Fly Lady said it took her 9 months to do her house. I have been trying, and yes I fall of my wagon all the time. I don't do the control journal like I should, I don't shine my sink every night. But I sure do like it when I do. I feel better.

Oh and yes I do put my shoes on everyday, it does something to me, motivates me more to do housework.

Hope this helps some of you. I have lots of tweaking to do with my routines and cleaning, but I am trying! If you want to be a flybaby, go to the site, join the Yahoo group, and then you can get these emails. There are alot of them. but nothing the delete button can't handle!