It’s a new year, and as cliché as
it sounds, I can’t believe it is 2015. Time
has flown. I took a few years off of
blogging. Frankly, I was a bit burnt
out. When I last wrote, was in June of
2011! I wasn't on Pinterest, I only had
two kids, I was juggling two different work places, and we lived in our “old
house.” Since then, Pinterest has
changed the way we cook, create, and compete.
I have a beautiful 12 year old girl, a spunky 10 year old girl, and a
rowdy 2 ½ year old boy. In the last year,
we have sold a house, lived in a rent house for 9 months, and are now living in
the house we only dreamed we could have.
I am working at one school full time as an instructional facilitator. This is a fancy word for working with
teachers and curriculum. Although I miss
working with kids in the classroom, I am lucky enough to work with a staff of
dedicated people. In the last year, I
completed college hours to become a school administrator. By my side in everything, my wonderful
husband helps me to find balance and keep up with the daily whirlwind of family
activities.
If anything, I am trying to find
the joy in cooking again. Schedules
dictate our life five days a week. The
other two days seem to be spent getting ready for the next five days. This was all compounded with having a baby, the
process of building, and going to school.
We made it work, but we ate out a little too much, didn’t cook as
healthy as I wanted to, and didn’t always have my act together to plan like I
needed to plan out our meals.
So that brings me here. I am excited to start blogging again. I am going to focus on writing about what
most families struggle with. I had found
in talking with friends we struggle with how to eat clean, without processed
foods, how to eat on a budget, and how to eat on a schedule when everyone is
meeting themselves coming.
So I end the first post of the
year, with no recipe, but with hopes that you ate your black-eyed peas! What
recipes would you like to see here? What
is it that you search for?
Looking forward to a great year, Kelli
