Saturday, January 2, 2016

January 1, 2016

First day of a new year and it is all about looking at life in a brand new way. While I expect this blog to hold me to getting projects and lifestyle changes to bring me to a new place 364 short days from now,it is also about enriching my life in little ways. To honor that(how pretentious. Did I really just type that...ugh, I need to refine my writing style in 2016), I grabbed the kids and we went to the beach.  It seems, we missed the news that a body that had washed up further up the beach early in the day...no foul play, just a sad accident...but don't think we would have gone that way had we known.  Regardless, a fun time was had and my girls are still talking about what a fun time we had spending the day together. Little things, people, little things.


And a project for me is underway:  Nearly two years ago--yes, TWO years ago, we re-arranged bedrooms in the house.  The girls, almost 10 years old at the time, each got their own room upstairs in my little house and I took their old playroom on the first floor. Their rooms each got painted and foofified but my little room became the dumping ground for things with no home...laundry, a bookcase.


I've lived with purple curtains and a giant blackboard long enough people, LONG ENOUGH!

Two coats of KILZ and three coats of paint and it is finally gone. A little bittersweet to see a remnant of the kids childhood gone but no looking back.  Big plans for the room coming.  I have a crazy idea for the room but that is for another day.To be continued....

Be well.

Andrea



Thursday, December 31, 2015


December 31, 2015

Today is the day I start a new year. A new year of my life to get it all together for me and my family. Health, home, happiness are all on the to-do list. More to follow every day for the entirety of 2016. 

I'd ask you to wish me luck but the way I feel right now, I don't need it.

My journey begins. Countdown begins: three...two...one...GO!