Architect? or Contractor?

The princess has been showing shades of a potential future career in home building/design/renovation. We have been living in a construction zone as workers finally get our stairwells up and finished. Last week, as we were leaving, I said goodbye to the guys working downstairs, after which the princess called down, "Don't forget to do the upstairs." Such helpful supervisory skills just can't be taught!

As we plan for an even bigger renovation, the husband and I INCESSANTLY discuss our options, and the princess has clearly been absorbing it all. First, it began with her telling me, as she placed pillows all over the floor, which pillow was which new "room"- "This is the living room, the kitchen would become my bedroom, my bedroom would become the playroom, this would be the bathroom..." Such visionary skills just can't be taught!

Yesterday, we watched as she took a pencil, drew a new sketch saying, "This is the new kitchen, it's going to look like this. And this-" she drew a crescent shape-"is where we will put the bananas." Such attention to detail just can't be taught!

Free Space comes to life!

At last, I have actually started my home organization business, made official by yesterday's site launch!
www.findfreespace.com
Along with the exhilaration of being an entrepreneur, I have this odd edgy anxiety, too. I suspect the source of that anxiety is not knowing how it is all going to pan out, life-wise. How I am going to be able to balance all of the elements in my life without shortchanging any of them? We shall see. In the interim, I am tickled to have my own website for my own business- an exciting start.

Put DOWN the Butterfinger

Ever since being pregnant with- and giving birth to- the doctor, I have had a killer sweet tooth. Sure, I have always liked ice cream, and indeed, I fall prey to the "I need something sweet after dinner" thing, but this aching for sugar is a relatively recent thing.

Previously in my life, I would be able to have cookies or candy in the house, and I would have one or two and be satisfied. Friends couldn't believe that I could have a candy dish with "kisses" and never touch them. But all of that has changed, and in the last year, I have become-along with millions of other people- a sugar addict.

I crave it. I would choose to eat something full of sugar over pretty much anything else. And one piece or cookie doesn't cut it any more. (If that's not a sign of addiction, I don't know what is!)

So, today I am going cold turkey. I am fighting the sugar addiction by cutting out the most obvious offenders, both big- no dessert after dinner, no vanilla nut granola or cinnamon almonds- and small- no sugar in the coffee, only sugarfree gum and mints.

Of course, I know pretty much everything HAS sugar in it. My goal is to lose the craving and the need for more so that fruit will once again taste sweet... and a mocha seems like an indulgent outrageously sweet treat!