It feels so back to front because I’m nowhere near being ready yet and there are things that I couldn’t do if I wanted to (bank statements) because it’s too early yet, but the appointment had to be booked!
At least it’s paid now, an early fee raise was a concern! And thankfully no restriction on using credit cards such as was announced by HMRC.
Had that feeling myself with our second FLR(M) that's just gone - we booked the earliest we could at 40-odd days out!
I managed to get over that particular "worry hump" by organising everything else that I needed in chronological order of when the earliest dates I could do them would be (if that makes sense), so things that were up to 28 days out, I made an entry at the t-27 day mark to go sort that. For the child documents, 90 days, and so on.
As the days went by more things got crossed off the list until I was down to just rechecking documents
(Good job I did, too, as I made a typo on the FLR(M) form that I had to correct. Whoops!)