Back to Normal Next Week

I have high hopes for the next few weeks. The boys finally go back to school on Friday of next week and Little Miss starts kindergarten (preschool) on Wednesday. I will finally be able to get into some kind of routine around the house. I am determined to get things under control. I want an organised house. I don't want to rush around tidying things when I know someone is coming over. I don't want to be embarrassed when someone shows up without calling first. I'm hoping all that will come together in the next couple of weeks.

I'm still not sure exactly how I'm going to do things, but I know I am going to do something, and that has to be better than nothing. Right? Right!

I'll have Monday and Wednesday mornings, and Thursday afternoon to myself or get started. I think I'm going to use Friday as my grocery shopping day. It's always been Monday or Tuesday in the past, but I'm finding that we're running out of food by the weekend and then eating junk. I'm going to get more serious about my menu planning, too. I don't think we've stuck to a single menu plan I've done. We've come close a few times, but something has always come up. I'm hoping that that doesn't happen too often any more. I figure if I plan a seven day menu, at least I have all the ingredients for those meals, no matter when I actually serve them. At least, that's my plan.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Send me links, send me advice, you can get my email address from my blogger profile, feel free to email me :)

Getting Back to Blogging.

Please excuse me while I move things around a bit; it has been a very long time since I've used Blogger. I started blogging back in 2001 when I was pregnant with my first child. I met a wonderful group of women, many of whom I am still friends with today.

I progressed to my own domain and hosting shortly after that in many incarnations. I've written about parenting, cooking, photography, scrapbooking and card making - you name it, I've probably blogged about it.

I gave up my last domain name in 2009 after letting my blog gather dust for nearly a year. This past few months I've felt totally out of the loop. I want to get back to blogging, but more than that I want to motivate myself - if I have to blog about my experiences, I'm forced to actually have experiences. I want to force myself to cook more healthy dinners. Actually, healthy could be a bit misleading. I cook a lot of comfort food, but it has to be healthier than a Big Mac, right?

I also bake. A lot. I used to share my recipes online. I got many emails telling me how my muffins were the best they'd ever tasted. Or how my chocolate chip cookies were so delicious.

Well, now I'm on a journey of my own - I want to try new recipes, and I'm hoping that I'll be motiviated enough to photograph them and maybe I'll inspire more people to cook meals from scratch.

I'll leave it there for now. I hope you'll take this journey with me.