Not Enough Hours In The Day....

Please forgive me fellow blog readers... I'm running a day behind on what had intended to be my weekly blogging session.  It was my intent to create and make blogging a weekly thing to do on Fridays..... but this past week has been a whirlwind of a week.  As a full-time housewife and mother, it's just difficult to get everything done that needs to be done each day.  I would love for there to be a few more hours in the day, as there just isn't enough hours in the day for me to get everything done.

Now that my game plan has changed for my blogging schedule, I will try my best to blog on Friday's.  I love to write and for me, writing is just relaxing..... who knew just writing for a few minutes (or hours) could be so therapeutic... lol    I have been working on lots of projects the past several months.  I've also made a resolution to not take on more than I can get done, because I love to stay busy all of the time.

I'm trying to make a schedule to better allot my time for certain projects that I enjoy doing, so that I can get more accomplished as well as still have time to work on my projects.  During the warmer months, I'm outside a lot.. most of the day to be exact.  I spend hours working on our flower beds and hedges.  I have gotten our 2 young children very involved in all aspects of gardening and outdoor projects.  I have a few new things that I would very much like to do this year if all goes well.

I had originally intended to plant some gourds last year so that I could work on my gourd ornaments, but since I had so much going on, I didn't get the time to get around to planting them.  I hope that this year, I do get to get them planted in time.  I have been working on some Confederate Rose cuttings the past 3-4 months indoors.  They are doing very nicely and are looking great.  I have sold several groupings of them and still have plenty left for selling some right here from home.

I have enjoyed my newest project.... paper beading.  I got started last summer, July to be exact.  I have been using various types of snack and product boxes to make them, as to me.... the paper and magazine pages are just to flimsy for me to roll into beads.  I have been working on several different techniques and absolutely love how quickly I can make a lot of beads while watching the 6 o'clock news.  It's also helps me to relax from very stressful days.

My quilting has been a work in progress.  I have 2 quilt tops that I have been working on for a while...... several years to be exact.  The reason that it's taken me that long is that prior to the storm on 4-27-11 (I call it the storm because it was a day that changed our lives forever), the sewing machine that we had no longer worked.  Luckily, I had kept one of the quilt tops packed up tightly inside a plastic storage container under what was left of the old stair case and was able to save it.  I purchased an older Singer sewing machine online and I began to continue my sewing projects.  I even sold some of the quilt projects that I worked up to do.  I plan to make some more of them up and sell those as well because I admit.... they were very fun to make.

I love to clean and work.... I know that must sound crazy, but I have always loved house work, yard work, and such.  I think most times that I am the only woman that does.   I used to clean other peoples' houses and when I would clean, I would clean everything in the same way that I would clean my own.  For me, cleaning something daily is as natural as brushing your teeth......  lol

Our pets and outdoor animals also keep us very busy.  I love all of our animals and they're like our other children.  Our boys adore the chickens and find it absolutely amazing that they can lay eggs.  They enjoy gathering the eggs each day and are so excited to go get the eggs.  I think that they will enjoy having their own gathering basket nicely this year.  It should also make for less broken eggs on the way back inside the house with them. :)

This is just a few of the projects that I have.... yes, there are actually several more projects.  I even have plans to make a mini-greenhouse this spring.  I know better than to make it a large greenhouse, because I would take on too much.  I love plants, seeds, bulbs, can cuttings, so if I were to ever have a big greenhouse... I would be working on it at night..  I love working with plants and the like that much.  I plan to start up some peppers and tomatoes in flats so that they will be ready to plant in the garden once the frost dates are over.  I'm so excited about the warmer weather ahead, that I've already planned a few things that I would like to plant this year.  I think that once I get some sort of schedule down, I should be able to get more of the projects I have been working on and attempting to finish, completed.

I've got so many wonderful ideas and advice that I would like to write about in my blogs that I'll be writing about in the weeks and months to come.  My blogs will be about various topics, about things that I experience and deal with..... not to mention some much needed survival skills.  With the future very uncertain these days, I have found it to be very important to know how to rough it, for the just-in-case the unknown should ever happen.  I welcome everyone who reads my blogs to leave a comment.  I hope that everyone enjoys reading my blogs as much as I enjoy writing them.  Well, until next my next blog post, stay safe, and have a great week!!  May God bless!!