Time to get back in the routine!

After a roller coaster of the last 9 months or so that included major sickness during pregnancy, packing to move, moving, then unpacking SLOWLY while still pregnant and sick, then having a c-section and all the recovery that goes with that, I am FINALLY itching to get back into a routine and
be productive and start some fun projects.

I appreciate all your support and patience as my posts have been more random during this time.  I'm planning on doing a giveaway soon for my loyal fans/followers- so watch our facebook for updates on that! :)

So here's my plan.... if I blog it here chances are much greater that it will get done! And I love the picture above that keeps me grounded in my goal setting.

• Now that I'm able to, I plan to organize and finish unpacking whatever is needed in the house. 
• Daily cleaning and maintenance is a given which should help keep things staying clean. 
• I also plan on going back to cooking all (or at least most) of our meals from scratch and as little processed foods as possible like I did before, trying new recipes and of course sharing them with you!
• Keeping this routine and making these changes should allow me some time for other projects such as sewing, scrap booking, food storage, etc. which I will also share with you.

As for projects I plan to do-

• Assemble the 2 chairs we got for our dinning set- I know this sounds simple and dumb but it's something that needs to be done and on my check off list.
• Once we are able to purchase nice bookcases I will unpack all our books that are now piled in boxes in a corner of the family room.
• My closest goal for a project to do is to organize and rearrange the family room. This should be a fairly easy project, just time consuming.
• Clean and organize the garage!  Putting up shelves will help, now if I can just bribe my hubby to put them up for me!  I should be able to dejunk some stuff at the same time.
• This Summer we are going to rearrange some of the kids' bedrooms which I am way excited for! 
• After rearranging their rooms comes decorating them!! I already have an idea for painting the girls room, the little boys still want Toy Story theme so I may just get wall stickers for theirs.
• At the same time of doing this I plan to repaint my daughter's dresser, nightstand and bookcase- which will be a good sized project in and of itself.  This project needs to wait for warmer weather though. 
• Depending on the foods we grow or can get cheap I want to do some canning.  Ideally I would love to bottle spaghetti sauce, salsa, and peaches.  I will be making some freezer strawberry jam too.
• I would put a garden on this list- but that's my hubbys project, which I'm sure I'll help with!

  And that's just what I've come up with so far!! Can we do it? YES we can! Who wants to see before & after pics???