1st day as a SAHM

Wow!  What a wonderful day!  As you now from the previous post that I had a schedule to follow today :)  Well, it didn't really happen.  The girls and I had to go Christmas shopping for my husband.  So my schedule went as below.

6:30am woke up
6:30-7:30 Quiet time with God, Coffee, Checked e-mails
7:30-I donno when Breakfast
sometime between I donno and 9 took a shower & Beautified
9-10am Got girls dressed & vacuumed, swept & moped
10am-3 out the door shopping
3-4 Jaylin getting ready for Dance
4-5 Jaylin dance
5-6 Prepare & eat dinner
6-7 Clean up
7-8:30 BeautiControl meeting (Got motiviated!!)
8:30-9 Stop at the store
9-10 Computer time

So as you can tell my schedule was a little off, but it still accomplished some of what I wanted done for my house to look & feel (tidy).  Tomorrow I have more work to do & I have some BeautiControl work that I want to accomplish as well as another meeting with my director.

Yea!  So far I love being a SAHM!

My first post as a SAHM!

I'm excited that this is my first post as a SAHM.  I am excited and a little scared.  I quit my full-time job on Friday, Dec 11th, 2009.  This weekend I have a ton of emotions happening.  I am excited, anxious, nervous, doubts, etc going through my head...yes, I said doubts.  Going from always working to not having a full-time 8-5 job makes me a little doubtful that I may like this new lifestyle, yet it is the lifestyle I have chosen and am very excited to start.

I am periodically organized and before I left my full-time job I wanted a schedule of what my life will be like as a SAHM.  I know from having weeks off for vacation that I need a schedule to be happy and be the best mom I can be.  I looked at many sites for schedules and found a few that I could work into my life.  I've listed my new schedule below.  This will be a rough est, but I think it will keep me organized enough.

Monday
6:30am wake up
6:30-7:30 Coffee, quiet time with God, check e-mails (if time permits on the e-mails)
7:30-8:15 Girls wake up/Breakfast time
8:15-9:00 Bathtime/Get Dressed
9:00-10:00 Cleaning Schedule duty
10:15-11:00 Excercise/Zumba
11:00-12:00 Shower/Beautify
12:00-1:00 Prepare & eat lunch
1:00-3:00 Quiet Time/Aubrey Nap/Cleaning Schedule duty
2:30 Husband arrives home (re-heat lunch for him)
3:00-4:00 Jaylin prepare for Dance
4:00-5:00 Jaylin Dance class
5:00-6:00 Prepare & eat Dinner
6:00-8:00 Free time with family
8:00        Bedtime for girls & probably husband
8:00-10:00        Read/Watch TV

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
6:30am wake up

6:30-7:30 Coffee, quiet time with God, check e-mails (if time permits on the e-mails)
7:30-8:15 Girls wake up/Breakfast time
8:15-9:00 Bathtime/Get Dressed
9:00-10:00 Cleaning Schedule duty
10:15-11:00 Excercise/Zumba
11:00-12:00 Shower/Beautify
12:00-1:00 Prepare & eat lunch/Take Jaylin to preschool
1:00-3:00 Quiet Time/Aubrey Nap/Cleaning Schedule duty/BeautiControl Work time
2:30 Husband arrives home (re-heat lunch for him)
3:00-4:00 Aubrey/Jaylin prepare for Dance/Cheer
4:00-4:30 Aubrey Dance class
5:00-5:30 Jaylin Cheer class
5:30-6:30 Prepare & eat dinner (Wednesday Awana's 6-7:30)
7:00-8:00 Free time with family
8:00 Bedtime for girls & probably husband
8:00-10:00 Read/Watch TV

Another item I researched was a cleaning schedule.  I hate when the house is a mess, but when I worked full-time and did my Spa's at night I didn't have enough time to clean the way I wanted to.  I've also created a cleaning schedule that will work for me.  I actually created it in Excel with check boxes next to them (because I hate to see an unchecked box!!)  e-mail me at lakegarcia@msn.com if you want a copy of the excel document.

Everyday Tasks:

Make Beds
Wipe Kitchen Counters & Table
Change out Kitchen/Bath Towels
Wash Dishes
Pick up Clutter (put in homes)



Sunday

Prepare crockpot meal
Take all clothes downstairs
Set Coffee Pot
30 Minutes quiet time with God
Laundry

Monday

30 Minutes quiet time with God
Wash Coats
Strip beds & wash all sheets
Sweep all floors
mop all floors
Set coffee pot
Fold clothes
30 minutes of exercise
Put clothes away

Tuesday

30 minutes quiet time with God
Set Coffee Pot
Clean Bathroom thoroughly
Wipe down doorknobs, phones, chairs
Vacuum all floors
30 minutes of exercise
Girls Bath

Wednesday

30 Minutes quiet time with God
Set Coffee Pot
30 minutes of exercise
Sweep floors
Mop floors
Laundry
Make Grocery list

Thursday

30 Minutes quiet time with God
Set Coffee Pot
30 minutes of exercise
Balance check book
Grocery shopping
Sort Mail
Pay Bills
Plan weekend activities
Girls Bath

Friday

30 Minutes quiet time with God
Set Coffee Pot
30 minutes of exercise
Vacuum all floors
Laundry
Sweep floors
Mop floors
Dust

Saturday

30 Minutes quiet time with God
Set Coffee Pot
Have a great day with family

I'll post tomorrow & let you know how my new schedules worked!  Off to peel some potatoes!

Card Class-October 5th @ 6:30

We will be using the Primary Halloween Additions pack to make 10 cards for $15. Please see a few samples below. You must be signed up by Friday, Sept 26th 9pm to attend so I can get your materials ordered.

More for ScrapPink

It is amazing, I did so many layouts yesterday that I had to have more than one post!! How exciting! Below are pages of my daughters first day of Preschool! I thought I was more excited than she was until the first day. She couldn't eat breakfast that morning because she was so excited!

This page is Creative Memories PP & a bunch of different American Crafts Thickers. It was different doing these pages because I normally don't use the primary colors like this on my pages. They all turned out great though.
This one is CM PP as well. Pictures by the Happy Time Preschool sign!
This may be my favorite page. When you look in the magazine & see these kinds of pages I just go ahh I wish I could do that. Well its easier than you think. I just put everything on the page & then I kept saying to myself this needs something else....sooo I started doodling! I love this page!!
The PP on this is CM as well along with a lot of Stampin Up rub ons. I used the CM tag maker to cover up a mistake I had at the top! I think it turned out well though!

ScrapPink

Last night I scrapped for breast cancer. What a wonderful way to raise money for a cause. I really got a lot accomplished & I am very proud! I arrived around 12pm and stayed until 10:15pm. So it was a nice time to get away & spend a rainy Saturday. Below are the pages I did. I did not write down the supplies so I will just point out the Creative Memories product.

This page was actually done last weekend, but I forgot to post it. I love this photo of my girls it makes me laugh every time I see Aubrey's face & it makes me see how mature Jaylin is coming with her girly face @ the camera.
I used Stampin Up PP & K & Company letters purchased at Wal-Mart. I also used the Martha Stewert punch to make the decorative design under the photo of my husband. The decorative edges are really coming back!
This is my layout of SeaWorld. We had so much fun there, plus really good photos! I used the label maker for the first time! Can you believe it...I am going out today to purchase one for myself!
This is a page of my group of friends from High School minus one. We called our "group" The Posse. We were such dorks :) This page looks really odd without journaling so I will be adding that soon!
I did this page last weekend as well, but forgot to post. This was at the Shamu show, which was by far my favorite part of SeaWorld. This was the only show we went to, but if you ever go, go for two days one to see all the shows & the next to see everything else. I wish we would have got to see more of the shows.

Last weekends Scrapbooking

This was our first day in Florida! Man, I want to go back!
This was the night that we arrived in Florida. Jaylin had her blanket with her then, but when we left Florida we left the blankie in the airport. Jaylin saw this layout & started crying! It broke my heart!

Creative Memories Open House

Well my CM Open House is just right around the corner. I've been working hard on getting samples of a lot of the new product so people can see what can be done with them. My Open House is Friday, August 29th from 4:30-7:30 stop by & make a tag make-n-take, see the new product, & enter in a chance to win the door prize. Make a purchase & receive a free gift. I will have some CM products cut down by 50% for sale. If you order out of the catalog you will save 10% at my open house! I hope to see you all there!

Below is the new CM 18x18 Black Keepsake Display. You decorate the outside that comes with 6 magnets & on the inside it has a french bulletin board with a ribbon grid that can hold photos, keepsakes & much more. Plus on the other side there is a deeper box that features hooks for keys, a removable ledge & a double elsastic strap to hold memorabilla in place. You can do so many things with this. Weddings, baby, retirement, graduation, etc. I actually did this one on my daughters dance. I feel like redecorating my daughters room now to go with the Black Keepsake Display!

The below page is used with the CM Primary Halloween Additions kit. I have a lot of Halloween photos left from previous years that I got done with this kit.
Each Christmas I have enough photos to do multiple books. Below I used the CM Primary Christmas kit. I used a lot of small photo's so I don't have to do as many pages or with my extra photos I can put them in the PicFolio Max Album.
Another winter/Chrismas page. On this one I used Jewel Christmas Kit. I love the Jewel Palette, it makes a page look great & it doesn't take much skill!
I have one more page to do with the Autumn Primary Additions kit, however I ran out of ink in my photo printer! Ahhh, I have to go get some more!