Back in the saddle

I'm sorry if I let y'all down with my absence since November. My last trimester of pregnancy really took its toll through the holidays. I am going to go back and make a few posts for specific dates, such as my birth story of Peanut, or my battle with post partum depression, dealing with a demanding high spirited toddler, dealing with a sensitive and difficult newborn.
I am glad to say that I'm back! And boy do I have some fun for y'all.
I'm still battling through post partum depression, but it is much better and I'm feeling more like myself and am able to focus and get things done. I have so much to discuss with y'all, but I'm gonna try to take it one post at a time.
Today I'll start small. I will link to different posts of my journey as a new mom of two, for those who can relate or need someone to relate to your own situation. To come I will share with you my pinterest journey I have begun. I will make no promises as to how often I will post a new project, but I'm so tired of pinning all these great things and saving up supplies for them and then just accumulating clutter of useless things. So I am putting my collection to the uses I kept them for. I know I'm not the only pin-crastinator, so I hope I can inspire you to get up and spend the few mins it takes to do some of these projects.  First things first, follow my pins for access to all my projects!

The first pin I will share with you is none other than the cleaning schedule that I use to actually have a clean home, clean and fed kids, and time to tackle these projects.  I got this from ClassyClutter.

See, that's not so bad. I spent some time as a "flybaby" and took some of the principles with me, that I add to this.
Laundry: a load a day keeps the chaos away.
*shine your sink!  I will give testimony to this. Visit Flylady and read her reason why a shiny sink is the start to a happy, clean, clutter free home. The weight of my home seems lifted from me when I shine my sink, which I don't do as well as I should.
*get dressed! Get up (before everyone else if you need to) and put on real clothes fix your hair, go ahead and do your makeup if you're going somewhere later (or you may not have time to then) and then lace up your shoes! I will testify to this as well. I wake up around 5 or 530, feed Peanut, then I go for a morning mile walk, get back and put my toddler (who is usually awake by then) in bed with her daddy and I hop in the shower. I don't leave the bathroom til I'm dressed and my hair and makeup are done. I feel great and ready to start my day.

And if you have a toddler who is starting to copy you and become interested in the things you are doing like Bug is, let her help with small tasks. Bug helps me pick up toys and throw away trash, "fold laundry" and sweep. Most of the time she's not really doing anything conducive to the task at hand, but by letting her push the broom and take the clothes out of the basket to stack on the table she starts learning how to help, feels like she's a part of something mommy is doing, and it also keeps her occupied and out of trouble and keeps her interested in helping in the future whereas I might discourage her if I scold her for messing up mommy's folded laundry or swept dirt pile.  Forget the neatness of it all and help encourage your child's love of learning and helping and it will pay off when they are coordinated enough to actually accomplish these tasks. It's all a process.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4:13