Day One

It's a new year - and I already feel like I'm spinning plates!

That's how my clever blog came to be.

It's been a crazy few years with so much going on and so many changes happening - started a new business, went through infertility, miscarriages and finally on to two healthy children.  In the meanwhile, the economy collapsed, my parents lost everything and live with us now, we moved to a new state and rented, then bought a house that needs work.  And my brother lost everything and his dog died and he lives with us too!

That's the short version but I just need a place to start sorting out my life.  I am an organizer and planner by nature and there are so many things I'm still interested in and would like to do.  I also feel something - pressure, expectations by society, or competitive comparing pressure??? - I'm not sure what to call it but there are things I feel like I should do and things that I want to do, and I need some way to start laying out these different threads and figure out what I can do and what can/should/must wait and what can't.

How do I figure out how to accomplish all these different things - from scanning in my old family recipes to scrapbooking our lives to eating healthy to exercising to making extra money - do I start my design business again, do I teach school to keep the same schedule as the kids - to paying attention to my marriage and the needs of my aging parents.  All, of course, while cooking, meal planning, shopping, laundry and cleaning - feeding the dog twice a day!  Really, does she need to eat twice a day every day???

And so it is I begin with a favorite phrase in mind - how do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time!  First bite taken - start a blog.  Here we go!