The first week of our new year has been characterized a lot of reorganization.  We’ve finally gotten all the Christmas decor down and are working on making our house more efficient for our lifestyle…and maybe more sale worthy in this new year. 

We’re working with the girls more on responsibility and I’m trying to improve that in myself as well.  It’s little things like planning a menu to help us stay on budget for groceries and trying to find one little project everyday that I want done and actually do it.  I’ll post some pics later of all those little changes that I hope will improve our home’s atmosphere.

In the meantime here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to this week:

Joshua making the trees fit back in the box.

The great toy clean out.

After we cleaned out their room, the girls rediscovered dress up clothes they had forgotten about and spent the afternoon pretending to be waitresses taking our orders and our pictures.

Aunt Ashley and baby Colton came to visit.

Amelia had some intense discussions with this singing pig.

Daddy and his girls reading.  Two out of three paying attention isn’t bad.

Measuring the girls for snowsuits since we’re apparently in for quite a winter.

I had great plans this year to follow along with some of my friends and do the 365 project. 

Well, I missed Day One so that dream’s dead.  Although Joshua did take a picture on his cell phone of Amelia chowing down on a cheeseburger, but since I have no idea how to get it off, oh well.

Instead, I’m starting a project of my own that someone else has probably already done (and done better).  But that’s okay because I’m tagging my one word for 2011 on here: satisfy.

I need to be more satisfied with my blessings and less critical of what I don’t (or can’t) do.  So, since it seems less burdensome to me to chronicle our year by weeks rather than days, here you go.  (If you care, which since you’re reading this blog, I assume you do.)

Project 52 will be a post of our weekly randomness (yay, pictures!) as well as some goals for the upcoming week. We’re working with the girls on responsibility a lot this year, so Mommy is trying to be more responsible, too.  Especially with things like our budget since 2011’s big change is going to be my transition from work-outside-the-home mama to stay-home-and-pursue-another-dream mama.

…and it officially begins next week because this is only Day 2.

Happy First Working Day of the New Year tomorrow!