Resoutions - Business Style

So, I have the typical resolutions in my personal life...get healthy; aka. stop being lazy because it's too cold out (remember I spent the first 24 years of my life in south Florida, the last 4 in Virginia, a "southern" state. I realize many places are far colder, but here we spend 4 months in the 30s or lower. Not. Good. I liked when it was "freezing" in the 60s in South Florida) and start running again. I *swear* I was being good about this when the weather was mild. I do live within 10 minutes to an entrance to the Blue Ridge Parkway and Mountains. The backside of my neighborhood lets out onto a ridge, and when I first moved here (from South Florida, only saying that again so you relize I lived in COMPLETE flatlands before moving here) I literally couldn't even walk around the circle of my neighborhood. So, for me to have been running the last few months is a major deal to me. With twin 2 year olds in a massive double stroller, no less. I hate running. Got cold out, lost motivation, enough said.

Anyway, been eating like it's Christmas and not running. SERIOUSLY ready for a good workout, so I might suck it up and bundle myself and the 2 non-school age kids up and start running again. And ignore the whining of said 2 year olds who also hate the cold and complain a LOT. Or maybe it's a normal amount of whining but just seems like a lot because there are 2 of them. ****Life is more annoying when you have multiple 2 year olds*****

BUSINESS RESOLUTIONS!!!!!!!
The point of my post, so I'll stop with the other stuff.

1) GET ORGANIZED, for goodness sake! I literally have 3 different calendars for organizing myself and still forget to fill them out. Maybe this year I will find that *perfect* organizer including all aspects of my life to use this year. And maybe it will cost so much money that I will have no choice but to use it, for fear of wasting hard earned money. ***Note to self:: Google search a mommy/business organizer and sort by the MOST expensive first (always wondered why that was even an option). This will likely force me to use it***

2) Every morning, spend 10 minutes cleaning the sewing room from the night before. Typically, I sew until midnight or later, at which point I decide I am about to pass out from tiredness and barely brush my teeth and fall into bed in the clothes I am wearing. Luckily, I am a morning showerer. Taking a shower in the morning - before your husband leaves - buys you 10 minutes of alone time. So, so, so worth it. Somehow makes it better that you went to bed at 2:30, and your kids wake up at 6:30 in the throws of extremely loud and hyper behavior (SUCKS!). So, the room typically builds up into such a state of disorganization that when it becomes mandatory that you clean it (or risk losing all of your scissors in a pile of fabric scraps), it takes a whole night to do. Cutting back on sewing time. Also?? That gives you ANOTHER 10 minutes to yourself in the morning. Take a shower and then clean the sewing room = 20 minutes of almost quiet time (cause generally you can still hear the kids screaming and running in the shower AND downstairs in the sewing room. But you can choose to ignore it because you are "busy"). My kids are awesome!! And best served after 8:00 in the morning :))

3) Use up all the fabric erupting out of my cabinets and onto all surfaces of my beautiful, husband-created, workroom. Good lord, I love fabric. So much. And it shows in this space. Time to get busy with the stuff I have already picked out and not drool over the stuff that I don't own yet. I love fabric. Did I mention I love fabric? **Another note to self: look into a 12 step program for fabric addictions**

4) Make beautiful stuff and take beautiful pictures of it. Have already conquered the first and am working on the latter ;)

5) Make lots of happy customers!!! Thank you all so much!

Merry Christmas!

I LOVE Christmas. And yet, I am one of those people who start dreading Christmas being over before it is even here. So, here we are - the depressing day after Christmas, when all my previously fun and festive holiday decor now looks messy and stresses me out and I want to put it away and just look forward to next Christmas. I do also have 3 really littles, and hence lots of new toys and tiny pieces of shredded present wrappings all over the place. I am still in that place where putting away their new goods really means Christmas is over, so I haven't done it yet. It's coming, a massive reorg of their closets to fit all this new stuff. We didn't even go overboard (I mean, Santa didn't - I am lucky I still have 3 gullible toddlers/preschooler or I would have been caught in a lie probably 27 times this year), but when you have 2 pair of spoiling grandparents added to Santa's pressies, it turns out to be a lot! Luckily, I have been slowly doing a massive toy purge over the last few months, and they don't have a whole lot outside of the new stuff. The twins are in the phase of leaving baby toys behind and moving on to big kid stuff *sob*. Anyway, this is good, because disorganization and clutter hurts my mental piece of mind. (and I am NOT normally an organized person - 3 small kids will make you that way).

So, kids are napping, company is watching a movie, and I came down to my little basement hideaway to get some sewing done. Christmas is over, time to look forward to new designs and fabrics!!!!