Flylady Sucks!

I have been a disciple of Flylady for several years now, but there are a few problems with her reasoning. They really don't account for 4 year-olds.

One of her mandates is to get dressed (including shoes) first thing every morning and put on make-up. I don't usually wear make-up, but this morning I thought I'd do ahead and make the effort.

In the five minutes it took me to apply a little blush and lipgloss, Colin took his bowl of cereal to the upstairs bathroom (spilling several times) in order to "perform an experiment." As far as I could tell, the "experiment" was to see how much mess one person can make.

So, Flylady's "only takes 5 minutes" directive actually cost me about 25 minutes -- 5 for the make-up, 10 for cleaning up the mess, and another 10 for yelling at Colin. (I amortized this over the course of the morning, berating him whenever he begged for more cereal.)

He's supposed to be watching a video right now. If he isn't, I shudder to think what damage has been wrecked during the time it took me to blog this.