Every Room has a shiny sink- Dresser

A Sitting Area

Here was a glider rocker that not

being used but looked good against

the wall. My baby now is held and

rocked by moonlight for the

middle of the night feedings and held and

rocked by sunlight for the morning

feeding.

Sheena

Every Room has a shiny sink- Desk Area

This is where the new me sits.

The new me faces the window to nature instead of the time consuming television set.

The new me does not have unpaid bills to remind me how broke I am.

The new me is now surrounded by beauty to remind me of who I am.

Sheena

Olympic CLoset Challenge

I'm happy to say, my closet only has what fits and what I wear.

My closet is no longer shouting out to me, look I know you had

two babies but when are your hips going to go back to size?

My clothing was making me feel like I there was something wrong with the way my body is.

I now have signature outfits that I can rotate for work or going to dinner with a friend. Everything from hair accessories to the shoes on my feet.

I no longer have the stress of getting ready for work because I know I have five good outfits that are clean and fit.

Sheena

I drive a clean car

Clean car mission,

I never knew myself as one who would drive a clean car. In the past, my friends and family would make fun of my messy car and make little jokes on how things fall out when you open the door. I always used the excuse that it's too cold and I'm too busy to clean out my car. We'll the

excuse has been crushed. On my way home from work, I went thru the car wash before picking the kids up from daycare. It took a total of five minutes. Another day, I took five minutes to run out to my car with a garbage bag and a laundry basket and filled it up. The next day I was driving home from work I decided to take give minutes to vacuum. This was so easy I'm going to do it again next week. By Friday my car will be cleaned again.

Sheena

FlyLady's Winter Olympic Event #9

Time to clean out the car! I know we are supposed to do this every week, and I do to some extent. I usually get all the trash from the middle console or anything that has ended up on the floor (in the front) but that's about it. Today I decided (with a little help from dh) that I would do a more thorough job of it. I took everything out of the trunk that didn't need to be there. Some was trash, some was recycle, and some was just old work stuff that I didn't use anymore (my "office" is in my trunk). My dh worked more on the front interior of the car, and I helped once I finished with the trunk. Some items found: Home made washing detergent (my SIL gave us LAST Christmas, I think), lots of game pieces (from work), used wrapping paper and bows, aluminum foil, and several plastic grocery bags, just to name a few. After we got all the "junk" out, yes there was a LOT of it, I decided I might as well get it vacuumed out. I'd been wanting to do that for a long time (months at least), so I decided, no time like the present! :) It took $2 worth of quarters but it was so worth it. Every time I get in my car now it makes me smile!

-Steph

Meal Planning Can Be Easy

One of our events this week was to take out our calendars and plan a week's worth of meals. Here are the menus that I used to use. I took things that my family already ate on a regular basis. I made up 4 menus, along with the shopping list to go with those meals. Then I rotated those weeks, so we would repeat once every four weeks.

Here are my sample menus:

Menu 1
Jambalaya, Rolls
Tacos, Refried Beans, Spanish Rice
Lemon Chicken, Rice, Veggies
Meatloaf, Baked Potatoes, Salad
Ham, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans
Gnocchi, Garlic Bread, Salad

Menu 2
Chili Boats
Fried Burritos, Spanish Rice
BBQ Baked Chicken, Salad, Rice
Hamburger Helper, Salad
Pork Chops, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Apple Sauce
Spaghetti, Green Beans, Garlic Bread

Menu 3
Stew, Rolls
Chicken Enchiladas, Spanish Rice, Refried Beans
Mushroom Chicken, Corn, Rice, Salad
Hamburgers, Potato Salad, Chips
Stir Fry
Lasagna, Salad, Garlic Bread

Menu 4
Tortilla Soup, Tortillas
Cheese Enchiladas, Refried Beans, Spanish Rice
Herb Roasted Chicken, Green Beans, Salad, Rice
Tamale Pie
Crockpot Pork, Corn, Mashed Potatoes
Fettuccini Alfredo, Garlic Bread, Veggie

During the summer months, I would replace the soups and stews with salads. You might have noticed that there are only 6 dinners listed. That left night 7 for leftovers or dining out/take out. Also, I am not posting my shopping list because your list would be different based on the recipes you use.

Take some time to write down the recipes your family already enjoys. Then create a master shopping list and take the time to put it in order by the layout of your grocery store! The extra effort now will save you a lot of time later.

Event #8

Meal Planning makes life so much easier. That's why this Olympic event is so important.

Take out your calendar and plan a week's worth of meals. You can get help at www.savingdinner.com.

Activity Challenge #4

Pick your level of fitness.

For beginners, 30 chair crunches.

Advanced, jog or walk for 10 minutes.

Remember, you can break up your goal into smaller sets.

Closet Challenge #4

Time to declutter your shoes!

I am very proud to announce that I decluttered 8 pairs of shoes. Yay me! =0)

Activity Challenge #3

Time for jumping jacks! Do 30 of them. Break them up into 3-5 sets and do throughout the day.

If your fitness level is still low, try shoulder raises.

Closet Challenge #3

Knitwear, tees and sweater time! Be sure to assess the fit in front of a full length mirror.

Closet Challenge #2

We are to go through our pants and jeans.

Ms. Smarty Pants gives great advice on how to assess the fit of pants. You might want to check out her advice in the flylady group on bigtent.com.

Closet Challenge #1

We are tackling our closet, but just a little at a time.

Our first challenge is to declutter our hanging shirts and tops. If you don't wear it, don't like it, it doesn't fit well, it has stains on it...or any other reason...please let it go!

I had a hard time with this, so I set a minimum percentage of total tops that I wanted to declutter. I selected 10%. I actually decluttered 14%...a huge milestone for me. I know that I can declutter more at a later time. For me, this was a baby step in the right direction.

Activity Challenge #2

This time we are doing 20 situps. As with challenge #1, if you need to break this up into smaller sets, that's okay.

Activity Challenge #1

This is designed to get us moving.

If you are a fitness beginner, simply walk for 10 minutes. This can be broken up into smaller sets, as long as it totals 10 minutes.

If you are more advanced, do 20 pushups. They can be done traditionally, on your knees, or even on the wall. You decide!

Event #7

Making our home office a place that we can function...that's our mission. I hope you choose to accept it!

You may not have a dedicated office, but you have somewhere that you do your office related things. Spend time getting that area in order. You can do it!

Event #6

Part of FLYing is learning to love yourself and to do things that make you happy. Event #6 is designed to take some time for YOU.

Pick a special place that you can declutter. We need a sanctuary. Find a special chair, desk, whatever, and make it your spot.

Forever 21

Hello ladies, haven't been doing much lately. I'm not feeling well but here it goes. Finished getting 13 gal. trash bag for salvation army it took me 60 min. Did loving movement Mon and Tues 60 min Have declutter some about 30 min. will try to do more this week. Have taken 4 trash bags into garbage and am currently doing donwnstairs trash about 6o min in total eventhough kids were off since Thurs. I hope this helps 210 min. since thurs. Thanks See you in the chat.

Forever 21

Tracking Your Olympic Minutes

Tracking your minutes is easy and fun! Go to the flylady website:

http://flylady.net/pages/olympic_minutes.asp

Once there, enter your personal email address and the number of minutes for that day.

To keep track of our team totals, please email the same information to superpopflyladies@hotmail.com. Judy will keep track of all the totals sent in so we can know how we did as a team!

Want to join our Olympic Team?

Team Superpopflyladies is growing stronger each day. Our homes are becoming clutter free. And we are having fun along the way!

If you would like to join our team, email us at superpopflyladies@hotmail.com. Include your flylady chat user name so we know who you are and the email address you would like us to use.

You can participate as little or as much as you want. Remember that any activity, however small it may seem, blesses you and your home.

SuperPopFlyladies Team Members

Our Team is so supportive and so encouraging. All of us are at different stages of our fly-adventure, which adds a wonderful dimension. Some have been flying for years, and "know the ropes," so to speak. Others are new flybabies, and have the enthusiasm of getting their homes in order. Others have established good routines and bring that consistency to the group.

Whatever your level of "FLYing," you bring something special to our group. So, a warm thank you for our following team members:

Sheenah
Bubble-Julie
Adriene
Aunt Cindy
Canada
Christie
Doe
Elf
Fatima
Jan
Julie
JannieG
Katrina
Pam
Steph
Trish
Wanda
Laura
Gobliss
Baum
JudyPop
Shanay

Olympic Closet Challenge

BEFORE


It may not seem like great progress. But I was able to declutter 15 blouses today. In my world, that is HUGE!

AFTER

Tough Cleaning Solutions

I have a huge entryway. The flooring is stamped concrete. The vacuum doesn't work, sweeping does a little better. And mop? Forget about it!

Top picture is a closeup of the floor. Picture two is looking towards the living room. Picture three is looking towards the pool room.

Suggestions?

Event #5

A major part of FLYing includes what flylady calls our Weekly Home Blessing...or WHB for short. This is 7 things we need to do each week to bless our families and homes.
This should only take us about an hour, if we remain focused and avoid getting caught up in our own perfection.

For those of you not familiar with the WHB, go to the official flylady website: http://flylady.net/pages/flyfaq.asp#whbh

Event #4

Part of FLYing is learning to take the time and pamper yourself. So, we were sent to have a bubblebath in the middle of the day. I can't even imagine such decadence! I didn't do it today, but you better believe I am taking that event and running with it!

Event #3

I was so excited to see this event. Pick one drawer in your kitchen, I selected my junk drawer, and declutter whatever items you don't need. I spent a few minutes taking everything out of the drawer (including 26 cents that I gave to ds12), separated the items into: throw away, put away, return to the drawer, and what-in-the-world-IS-this.

In addition to the last group, I found a strange variety of things, including: 4 green candy canes, the back to a remote control, and a pencil that had been gnawed on. Needles to say, I threw the pencil away, stashed the candy canes for my next need-sugar-now day, and put the back of the remote into the drawer until I can figure out where it belongs.




Now, THAT'S progress!

Event #2

Into our bedrooms we went! We are tackling the flat surfaces in our bedrooms, especially the tops of dressers. I was good on that one, but I spent a few minutes decluttering the nightstands and the top of my entertainment center. It looks really nice in there now.

Olympic Event #1

Our first event took us out to our cars. We were to declutter the insides of our vehicles. I haven't finished this event yet. I took the bags out there: one for trash and one for bringing things into the house.

Placing our Olympic Torch

Our first assignment was to create an olympic torch. This was to be something that motivated us. Some used vases with flowers. Others used a pretty candle. We were to set it where it would remind us of our decluttering goal.

Super Pop Flyladies

The SuperPopFlyladies was created to blog our teams adventures during the Flylady Olympics. For more information, check out the website at www.flylady.net. Scroll down to FlyLady's Winter Declutter Olympics and see out what we are doing!