shining sink 365 day 31

Flylady taught me how to fly but to keep us going we need friends to keep us on track that is the same for me.  I have a group of friends that we call the hen party.   We had one lady who was the leader who kept us all on track and had no problem telling us to keep up and get moving. She passed away earlier this month.  This has been very hard on all of us we miss her funny jokes and wise words.  She was so encouraging and keep us moving.  She would even call and tell us its time to get up I have not heard from you when she knew we had things that had to be done.  She gave us constant reminders to make to do list, to drink our water, to shine our sink, and always reminded us what day it was such as who plan and errand so on and so forth.  We have all cried together but there is one thing we have all agreed on we have to go on we have to keep moving and believe that she is watching down seeing our progress.  We have lost a great leader but we must keep moving we must go on.  She made us feel safe to post our before pictures and help us know where to go to get it back in shape.  She posted the baby steps for us to follow every day.  She was a great woman a great leader she will be missed but her memories will live on in the work I do.  Rip April sidner

shining sink 365 day 27

Today I want to talk about how a shiny sink makes you feel.  When your sink is shining you can feel at peace and know that you have the tools and room to cook supper make tea or coffee.   Just about anything.   Say you get a stain in your favorite shirt and need to soak it if your sink is clean and shiny you can easily put it in the sink to soak.  Now add in doing a whb and your home is feeling clean and fresh.  You have clean sheets on the bed that is made.  That is my shiny sink in my bed room.  The trash is emptied and that makes your house smell better.  The clean mirrors and windows make it nice to look at your self because there is not tooth brush splatters or dental Floss home runs.  Your floors are clean and you don't stick to them.  The kids can play on the floor and you don't fear what they are going to put in their mouth.  The dust has been removed from the house so you can breath better.  The magazines have been purged and so there is less to pick up.  When I walk in a room after I have done a whb I smile and look at the room like the shining sink in the kitchen.  It makes things easier give me more time to do other things around the house and more time to spend with my family.   It's Monday whb hour day so jump in and let's get the whb done so you can smile at it like the shining sink.

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shining sink 365 day 23

My sink is shining bright tonight and I am proud.  I do want to tell you that there will not be a post for tomorrow as I will be of town I will blog about my trip but there will not be a shining sink post tomorrow.

So for today's tip I want to tell you a little more about flylady that I love.  You can clean your house in one hour with the flylady program.  Now before you yell this is not possible I want to tell you about the weekly home blessing hour. The whb is a hour of speed cleaning I t can be done in any order.  There are 7 things to do for 10 mins each but they will not take the fill 10 mins on some of them.  Here is the list:
1. Change sheets
2. Clean mirrors
3 . vacuum
4 . Purge magazines
5. Mop
6.dust
7 . take out trash

So here is what how I do it I take the sheets off and put in the washer then head to the bathroom and wipe the mirror and bathroom window then I move to the next bathroom and do that mirror.  I normally try to wipe down the glass doors at this time.  Next I toss old magazines.  By this time the sheets are ready to go in the dryer so I swap them over.  I then grab the vacuum and run through the bedrooms and if I have time left I hit the kitchen and living room floors with it.  Next I grab the trash and run it to the barrels so I don't have to take it access the floors then I dust the house.  You can do the entire house with a feather duster in 2 mins but I get the polish and do a little more detailed dusting.  Then I mop quickly.   After that is done I grab some water and sit for a minute to rest and admire what I did.

You may need a little coaching to get you through this so flylady has made a radio show to talk you though this and you can check it out here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/flylady-tools/2008/04/08/weekly-home-blessing-hour

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