a new blog? why not? =)

welcome to my latest project.

i've always been a pretty sporadic house keeper.   my house is never really "dirty" since i DO manage general cleaning on a somewhat regular basis, but it remains to this day quite cluttered and "lived in".  

every so often, i'll go through and really clean it up, but then life happens and, before i know it, it's back to it's usual levels of mild chaos.  so i decided i need to come up w/a plan.  


first, i headed to pinterest to drool over the pics of clean, organized spaces.  this took a few hours and was called "research" and involved eating a kit-kat bar.  then, i actually clicked on some of the links i had pinned.  this led to 7 hrs of browsing organization blogs, my butt cheeks falling asleep and a few leg muscle spasms which led to quick walks around the kitchen island in efforts to alliviate them, due to the fact that i'm currently 8 months pregnant and probably shouldn't be sitting that long.  =)

around 2 a.m., i did fit in a few hours of sleep, but was right back at it the next morning.  i made a list of chores i needed to do daily, a list of weekly tasks that i then divided into 5 days worth and spread out over the weekdays (i gave myself weekends off!) and then 2 shorter lists for monthly and quarterly stuff.

i also have been spending a good deal of time looking for new recipes.  i am SOOOO tired of making the same things for dinner over and over and over again.  so i've been saving and/or pinning recipes and writing up weekly meal plans.  i can't say i'm doing a super good job at following this.  BUT it is really nice to know that if i do manage to set aside enough time to try a new recipe, at least i have everything in the cupboards.  i've been writing out grocery lists based on recipes vs. my old shopping style; buy what looks good and then figure out what to do with it all later. 

i'm currently about 2 weeks into these new projects and, for some CRAZY reason, i feel like i needed to add "start a new blog!" to my list of things to do.  perhaps, i'm just an oversharer.  or perhaps, if i'm doing this publicly, i'll be less likely to fail.

so, here i am.  because, i suppose it's better to try and fail, than to sit around and wish i'd done something, but never do anything at all.  i know i'll never be the perfect susie homemaker, but i'll be able to say, "at least i tried!"

"we may not have it all together, but together we have it all!"