SAHM

Yesterday was my first official day as a stay at home mom (SAHM)!  I turned in my EY laptop, badges, etc on Friday afternoon.  It was such a great way to start this new year!

I've worked for EY since January 2008, and during those years there were many, many, many things/ideas/trips that I had put on a back burner thinking to myself if I wasn't working I could _____ (fill in the blank) or I would have time to _______.  So now that, the day has finally come I'm overwhelmed by all the possibilities and opportunities to spend my time!  

Seriously all weekend I was anxious about all these ideas and how and when I could get them all done/started.  So I decided to make a list (type A for sure)! I took a spiral notebook with easy year out pages and then cut the pages into thirds approximately.  The top section is for my daily to do lists, at the end of each day I can tear off that section of paper and write down anything that didn't get done on the next days paper underneath it.  The middle section if for my weekly to do list. The bottom is a monthly to do list, more like larger goals that are still visible to me everyday.  Anyways it's working great so far except there is a lot on those lists so I probably need to start writing smaller!

Some things on my lists are simple like laundry or dishes, some things on my weekly list may be appointments or organizing projects, and my monthly list has things such as sewing a pillowcase (my mom bought me a sewing machine for Christmas!).

This stay at home mom stuff will definitely take some practice! Yesterday I burned the bacon I was going to use for bacon bit toppings on the crockpot potato soup I was making for dinner (easy dinner recipe thanks to Pinterest). Usually I bake bacon in the oven as it's way less messy and just generally easier than frying it, but for some reason I didn't yesterday. Then when I went to pour the grease out of the skillet into a glass jar (usually I keep pickle jars on hand for this) I couldn't find a glass jar, so I used the next best thing a red solo cup, bad idea!  That cup sizzled and frizzled up so fast, it was actually pretty cool to watch, but I don't recommend trying it at home ;). 

Anyways the baked potato soup turned out delicious and thanks to Pinterest tonight we are having chicken and fried rice, I already made the yum yum sauce. I'm pretty sure it's called that because the two main ingredients were mayonnaise and butter =)

Happy new year!