I've been actively reading blogs about homemaking for a little over a year now. There are a lot of great blogs out there, but honestly most of the women who write them are SAHMs. Which don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to start and fight or discussion of that, but I am a teacher actually. I always say with teaching, I get to pretend to be a SAHM for a bit of the year. So I've been toying with starting my own blog on Homemaking from a working outside the home perspective. Because I can't be the only one who works outside the home, but still wants their home to be an inviting welcoming space.
A little about me...
I'm Amber. I am, dare I say it, 30 years old. I have been married to my true love since October 2005. I have two sweet girls and we are coming up on the summer I have been waiting for, 4 and (almost) 2. I teach at the Elementary School that I went to, and most of the time, I absolutely love it. Enough about that now, if this whole blog thing works out there will be much more to come.
The idea... Weeding Safhaven
There is this video game called Animal Crossing, that my husband and I used to be quite into (in that long ago time B.K.). In this game you set up your own little town ours was called Safhaven. Which is all very cute and fun, but if you don't play daily then a funny thing happens...you grow weeds. So whether you come back to the game two days or 4 years later, you will have a town full of weeds that you must go about pulling.
Okay, okay so what does that have to do with a blog? Well, we were married for two Summers before Eldest came along. I honestly can't tell you what we filled those Summers with. (I should pause here to mention that Husband is also a teacher at a local community college and works at home doing Internet based classes during the summer.) By the time the third Summer started to roll around, we had just moved into our newly built house and had a sweet baby girl. Needless to say that adjusting, settling in, and surviving were the top priorities on our list that summer. The next Summer started off well enough, we were happy and had big plans. Our plans got put on hold however, because in July I was hospitalized with Pulmonary Embolisms. But as our little girl sat on the hospital bed and sung "God is so good". It was over within a few days, and I was home to recoup and re-adjust to life. By the fifth summer, I was pregnant once again, expecting little E right before school would start back. Last summer, our 6th together, we were happy and traveled and just enjoyed a more quiet and settled life than we had had in a while.
Which brings me to this summer, this blog, and a big plan. I have weeds in my own little real life Safhaven. Our home,which isn't all that messy, has started to accumulate a family's worth of things and is in need of some weeding. So I have these ideas to work through several projects and come out on the other end of the summer with a cleaner, more organized house, and a cleaning plan that will be daily and manageable for a mom that works outside the home. I thought that a blog, a written record, might help to motivate me and keep me on track.
The plan wasn't supposed to go into action until I was off for summer, but since we will be hosting a 4th birthday party for Eldest here next weekend, a full week and a half before I am really off, things had to start a little earlier.
It's a long weekend, what with Memorial Day being Monday. Little E, has been a little sick, and we were advised by the Dr to keep her home from Church today, so today started the first of my big cleaning plans. The Windows. Now anyone out there who has little ones knows that cleaning windows and glass doors is a necessity with usual cleaning because of "jam hands". That isn't what I am talking about. I'm talking about a good inside and outside scrubbing of panes, and sills, and screens (the last part taken on by Husband and the water hose).
The other task for today was making homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast tomorrow. I love to cook. So I hope to add a bit of that here as well. The recipe for the cinnamon rolls came out of the "red plaid" Betty Crocker Cookbook (its my staple cooking tome). This is my fist attempt at making homemade cinnamon rolls, but they are doing their final rise in the fridge tonight and so far they look amazing. I'll let you know how they turn out next time.
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