FLYing and sickness

I have heard from a lot of people that FlyLady.net is amazing and helpful. I have resisted even checking out the site for months. I gave in yesterday.

I can't honestly say I have a solid opinion based on one day of perusal, but I will say that her Welcome Message made me tear up and nod my head in agreement. I promptly went and cleaned the sink and hung a note above it.

We will see how well this works.  Of course, I grew up with the policy that you don't leave dishes in the sink overnight (as teenagers, my father actually dumped dirty dishes in our beds if we left them for him to find, so we learned the hard but mercifully quick way!), so we have a good starting point.  

I don't think I will completely adopt lesson two, which is to dress to the shoes.  I appreciate the idea behind the shoes, but we try not to wear shoes in the house.  *shrug*  But getting dressed and ready for the day BEFORE entering the kitchen?  Yeah...I can do that. 

Beyond that?  Not much to say.  Boy was put on anitbiotics for bronchitis on 8/13; Beloved was in the doctor's office on Saturday and came home with a Z-pak.  Girl has developed a productive cough this weekend, and this morning I have a sore throat and raspy voice.  Oh joy.

Work continues on the basement...yesterday I dragged Beloved through a box of paperwork we had saved...it had Windows98 documents and sales slips from computers we build in college.  *laughs*  Things that were important once upon a time.  I saved 4 pamphlets for the 4 items we actually still own, but the rest went to the recycling bin.  We also sorted through the sports equipment and ditched the stuff that was no good anymore.  What we are saving needs some TLC...like removing and retaping the handles on the racquetball rackets...but I'm done to just a small pile of gardening stuff that I have to go through.  Then, the back room is empty and we can actually talk about re-parging!