Command Center

I have been wanting to make an organization board for a long time now and finally just did it! I call it my command center. what a nerd.

When it comes to cooking, if I don't have a planned out menu, I will fail.  I am a fast food junkie and if I don't have something planned, guess what we eat! My weekly problem would be that I would plan out my menu on a scratch paper next to my grocery list.  Go to the grocery store, and then throw my list away forgetting my menu was on it.

I also would get a lot of recipes online and then when it was time to make it, would have to go look it up again and waste all this time on the computer.

I can lay out a few more excuses, but you get the point!

So I made my board.  I have a weekly schedule on it including a to-do list and menu for each day (Yes, I realize the lines are crooked and YES it drives me crazy.  I made it while watching Desperate Housewives, so it didn't have my full attention).  I can write it all up there, grab a piece of paper from the magnetic notepad and make my grocery list. I added some cork board to the bottom for any important things that we can't forget about.  I can also print out any recipes and stick them in the little recipe envelope.  I even made a little pen/pencil holder out of my leftover cork board.  I added a receipt envelope too since I am always having to return things for some reason and throw away the receipt on accident.  I hung the board next to my computer.

There you have it. My command center. It's not perfect.  It's not very pretty! But it is functioning! lol.

Recipe Bliss

This fellow blogger is from my MOPS group and I am trying EVERY recipe on here.  She just started about a year ago and doesn't update a ton, but so far a lot of her stuff looks yummy! I even made the homemade deodorant. Lol.

Heavy on Wholesome

Can you spare some change?

The past 4 years, I have been just trying to keep my head above water.  Just trying to stay afloat.  Doing the bare minimum to survive...you get the point!

I can't say my life is calm to the point where I have a TON of free time.  Recently, however, I have had a tad more free time and have been able to put more effort into a lot of things around the home. I have been yearning to make a few changes around here to just be a better homemaker by my own standards.  I always want to eat and cook healthier.  I want to organize my home better.  I want to make things and be super crafty.  So I decided to dedicate posts here and there to my new found spare time (spare is the key word here, haha).  It is not going to happen overnight! Hopefully, my girls can benefit someday from their Momma's steps into becoming better :) After all, that is what this blog is mainly for, my girls :)