Happy New Year!!!

I am starting out the new year right! I'm having a pajama day! Woo hoo!  Well... until I have to take the kids to church tonight, then I have to shower and get dressed. But in the meantime I am in my pajamas and baking peanut butter cookies.  I feel like a queen.

Now that school is on break for me, my mind is going overload. It is so used to reading mass amounts of things and becoming tired from all the work it's been doing, but with nothing to focus on, it's been hard to contain. One night I stayed up until 3am watching sewing, baking, and gardening videos. My mind is racing with all the things I have been wanting to do for the last year of living here, and I've done a few of them, but have so many more in mind!

Here are some of them:
1. Organize my spice shelves to be more uniform and easier to find what I need.
2. Set up a sewing area.
3. Set up a craft/art area.
4. Eye exam and new contacts.
5. Sew drapes.
6. Become more knowledgeable about gardening and grow a better garden this year.
7. Do more canning and herb drying.

What I have done in the last week....
1. Bought frames for several art pieces-
two of Joy's water paints, Jacob's fourth grade rendition of Grant Wood's American Gothic, and a charcoal he did of a Mexican pouring water that I named "Pedro".
Organized the Christmas decorations and got them all put back where they belong, and the rest into garbage or donation boxes.
Organized my kitchen with some shelving to get the water jugs off the floor.
Emptied two 25lb. bags of flour, and one 50lb. bag of sugar into gallon Ziploc bags.
Folded tons of laundry I was behind in.
Made homemade bread.
Cleaned and organized my laundry room.
Got my dresser and night stand organized and cleaned off, and got Joel to do his dresser and the top of the fridge, and also to settle on a filing system for his stuff.
I made three water colors I did with J O and Y for some pink frames I bought last year to decorate her room with.
Emptied my memory card from my camera to my laptop and played and displayed some pictures from that.
Got the cat spayed and her claws snipped so she can't use them.
Transplanted my Aloe plant to a new container hoping the leaves will make roots... we shall see!


Here's some pictures from last year! You can click on them to see  it in a larger version.