FLY LADY - Week 2 - Living/ Dining Room

 Good morning!

Week 2 into November. Bob will leave Wednesday for a wedding in Oklahoma. I'll have 5 days to deep clean ahead of Christmas decorating and working on my book. My goal is to write 1086 words per day. I didn't write the first two days of the Rough Draft Challenge so I'll have some words to make up.

I still need to get the Halloween/ Christmas craft stuff out of the living room where the tree needs to go.

I have the craft binders ready to put those items in so I'm planning Halloween one day and the Christmas stuff another day so that table can come down before Bob gets home on the 17th.

The Dining Room will have more of it's focus next month.

Accomplishing that this week will be a HUGE win for me and for the house.

What's your plan of attack this week? I'd love to hear.

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed.

~ Kelly

FLYLADY - Week 1

 Good morning, friends!

Welcome to turning back the clock when everything officially begins to feel like fall.

We are to have a couple of really warm days here in the Ozarks this week so my schedule as to what I accomplish may flip a bit. Sometimes, the weather directs what you need to be doing. For me, it's finally getting the warehouse organized. This entails going through all of the holiday decor and getting rid of a good portion. I'm at the point in my holiday decor life where I know what I'm using and where in and outside of the house. I'll be talking about that more in another post.

On October 30th, we sent our Spirit kitty over the rainbow bridge. He was a beautiful loving black cat of 21 years/ 8 months. His main bed and where we fed him was in the laundry room. Since Week 1 is Kitchen/ Laundry, I'll be detailing the laundry room really well. The rest is going to be surface stuff for a couple of weeks as I prepare to pitch things we no longer need and prepare for the Christmas decorating. This will be Bob's first season home to see how everything goes up. Welcome to retirement!

Coffee is ready so I need to scoot but I wanted to get this post up at a decent hour.

I'll be talking about more Pantry Preparedness on a regular basis next year. For now, let's just enjoy family.

Oh, I'm no longer doing the Meal Plan Monday videos. There just wasn't any interest. Next year, I plan to post here on Saturday's what I'll be doing for my menu in the coming week. I hope you'll let me know if it's something that interests you. Also, leave a comment if there is something that is a menu staple for you we might like. 

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~ Kelly

FLYLADY - Week 4

 Good morning, friends!

Yay!!! My favorite room in the house...

... and the one that needs the most work!

I've been pushing to get this room finished by picking areas I think I can tackle in the shortest amount of time. On Saturday (Nov. 1) I begin a new writing challenge. The Rough Draft Challenge is the brain child of YA fantasy author, Sarra Cannon. She began the RDC a couple of years ago when things began to fall apart at National Novel Writing Month (NanoWriMo). She had a vision we were all going to need a positive place to continue our challenge month. Now she offers it a couple of times a month and you can do ANYTHING  creative and if it's writing, YOU choose your wordcount goal. I love the challenge. 

You can find out the basic information by checking out the video below. She even offers a free workbook to help you along the way. (You just need to sign up for her email then you'll have access to soooo many great printables)

While she writes under Sarra Cannon, all of her writer supportive content is under HeartBreathings:

She starts us off in October, called Preptober, where we begin to think about what we want to write during the RDC in November. This prevents opening up the computer on November 1 and staring at a blank screen. I love her process.

So, my goal for this week is to seriously find the office space to write, because the challenge begins in just five days!!  I would love to be able to sit on my sofa and use the AlphaSmart to write. Send me all your positive vibes, please.

What are you working on this week? Let me know in the comments. Remember, if you have questions, I'm here for you.

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~ Kelly

FLY LADY - Week 3

 Good morning, friends.

I can't tell you how great it is to know I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. Of course, I do have a big writing challenge coming up next month so I'm trying to really get things in order here so I don't have to think about them.

I really want to get stuff moved back to the office this week but don't think that is going to happen until I do the office next week to make space for the items we moved earlier this year to go back. So for this week, it's all about sprucing up my night stand and pitching anything I don't need...you know, like the pillows that just aren't poofy anymore and the throw blankets that need washed and put back in their storage place until needed.

I did manage to get the fall linens put in the bathroom. I was determined to make this house a bit festive, if only for a few weeks. 

What are you focusing on this week?

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~ Kelly

FLY LADY - Week 2

 Good morning, friends!

I'm home and I'm tired but I look forward to the Ozark Creative Writing conference every year. Now I can focus on deep cleaning the house in preparation for the holidays. 

Before I left last week I started working on sorting through the Fall/ Halloween/ Christmas crafting table in the living room. I hope to finish that up this week now that I know I don't have to go anywhere for awhile - a long while!

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~Kelly

FLYLADY - Week 1

Good morning, friends!

Things are going to be a little crazy again this week so there won't be a Meal Plan Menu video this week, and possibly next week. Still debating that one. I leave Thursday for the Ozark Creative Writers Conference. This will be my 29th consecutive year (minus the year my youngest granddaughter was born and the Big C when nothing was happening)

I am working on the laundry room and kitchen before I leave on Thursday. I've been creating little 'haunted houses' for a village on the top shelf in the laundry room - something to replace the bird houses and segue into the North Pole village that will go up late November.

For cleaning, that's pretty much my entire plan on the short week. I leave Thursday and won't return until late Sunday. Then I think I'm done with long-distance travel until about April 2026. Wish me luck!

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~ Kelly

 

PANTRY PREPAREDNESS - 1 Final Item!

 I failed to include the Freezer Clean Out video from Leisa at Sutton Daze. here it is:

Be safe, Be prepared, Be Blessed!

~ Kelly