The Joyful Housewife

It’s time to get up off my bum and be productive again. I’m posting this picture of Casey, which I’ve probably posted before in one of the lost posts – and of course, you’ve seen it before in the About Me column – because it sums up all of the photos my husband and I take besides those of the beautiful landscape in our new town. I haven’t yet found my camera charger, but I still take tons of pictures of this old dog with my phone. He’s 14 now, and the light of my husband’s and my life. That is until the baby comes along. He’s getting so grumpy in his old age, we really hope he does okay with the baby around. He’ll probably pout a lot from his doggy bed. Hopefully, he’ll feel a little protective over the baby instead of just jealous.

Now, as for me, I’m planning to empty some more cardboard boxes of their contents today, and maybe buy a new desk to set up the office area. We gave away our old one when we moved. It was an ugly thing from a University. It served it’s purpose for several years, but we couldn’t bear to bring it into our new lives. Without it though, we have ugly boxes bursting at the seems with office stuff that won’t fit on shelves. That desk sure did hold a lot of stuff.

I’m going to concentrate on books today, of which we have too many. But most of them we own for a reason. I’m going to pull out some inspiring books about eating right and setting goals.  Peruse them, put the rest away – the trick will be deciding which bookshelf in which rooms will hold which books – and then get motivated to decorate, write, knit, sew, and cook!

Yeah, I know, poor me. I don’t have to go to a job right now. I have all day to bake and make crafts. But, I’m not good at those things. I’m the chronic disorganization queen! I’m more likely to be a sloth all day reading YA novels and feeling guilty that I don’t read adult novels or exercise.

Alright, that’s enough complaining! My husband and I have already gone on two amazingly beautiful hikes since we’ve been here and I’m planning to start walking in the mornings. So, there is exercise in my future. I just have to learn to organize these long chunks of days that I’ve got ahead of me now. I don’t even have to fight through traffic anymore. I’m in paradise and I don’t know what to do with myself!!!

I keep reminding myself to just enjoy this ability to be lazy, because it’s going to go away in five months when the baby is born. But the life-long feeling of being an unproductive, lazy slob never goes away. What do you all do to combat non-productivity? Are you compulsive list writers? Remember, I can’t even plan a weeks worth of meals, I don’t know if I can handle lists. The problem with lists is that I come up with five hundred things I need to do and that just overwhelms me. Is there any hope for me? Do you have any book recommendations on this subject? I love reading books.

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Two years ago, we moved out of a very luxurious townhouse, to live in this colorful, but tiny Victorian row-house in Northwest Denver. We gave up storage space and a dishwasher, to live with character in a terrific neighborhood.

Last week we said goodbye.

Now we are in a brand new, very airy, and spacious home in a small town. We will be here for one year while we look for our first house to buy. Our first baby will be born in this house. Because we are renting and the landlord had this house built very recently, we’ll not be able to change any of the cream colored walls. After living in such a colorful house for two years, I’m at a complete loss as for how to decorate without painted walls.

I’m sure you’re dying to see the new house now! I’ll work on getting pictures up tomorrow. We’re still living out of boxes and I haven’t found the camera charger yet, so….we’ll see how it goes….

P.S. The final picture above was taken with my phone as we were pulling away for the last time, beginning our six hour drive to our new town, and I realized I had zero photos of the front of the house that I was leaving behind.

I’m working on a mitered square baby blanket based on the one the one in Mason Dixon knitting. In order to make the squares smaller, you use the same pattern, but only cast on 48 stitches and start at row 21.

It is so much fun to knit with color! The current current pink and purple combination that I’m working on reminds me of My Little Ponies, and also the Velcro sneakers  I wore in Kindergarten.

Aside from this knitting, you may have been wondering where in the heck I’ve been! Well, we just moved from Denver to our new home in a small town in Western Denver. We’ve only been here one week and are still settling in. And meanwhile, I’m almost 18 weeks pregnant! And whooo-boy am I tired!