Organized? Who me?

So, many who know me know that I am a *fairly* organized person. When I say that I mean that I know where everything is but no one else does.  I am also a *neat* person but not the type-a neat freak that I grew up with (sorry to call you out mom, I do love that I can eat off of any floor in your house...).  However, no one EVER told me that if you were to quit your job and stay home that you would find yourself becoming the *type-A neat freak* you swore you would never become. Yes, I am becoming my mom - I am finding that I like things clean, neat and over organized.

Since having my precious little bundle of joy I found that I was really having a hard time adjusting to this whole stay at home mommy thing... and after FINALLY speaking up and talking about it I found that there's a good reason for the way I am feeling.  I am a NEW mom and I need to figure out how to make my life feel more together.  No one tells you how much harder (although much more rewarding in my option) staying at home with your child is.  With that said if you were to visit me at my office at my old job last year you wouldn't recognize where you were... I was that type-a neat freak at my office that I am now becoming at my home.  Everything was organized and then organized again.  I would clean my desk off with those Clorox wet wipes at least once a week and everything had it's place.  I am now having to remind myself that my home is now my office and that I need to get it organized and neat and clean.  Well, what better way to get that ball rolling is there than to MOVE into a brand new home???

Yes, yes.  You have read that correctly... the LeBlanc's are moving again but this time into our OWN home that has a TON of light, storage and extra space!  Eloise will have her very own room with two closets. We will have a guest room for all of our family and friends to stay in.  Daniel will eventually have his own man cave in the basement!!  Plus we will have almost 1500sqft of just STORAGE! So I can FINALLY have a place to keep all the extra stuff we cannot fit into our new 2000sqft house.  I am getting to basically create my almost dream kitchen and will have an amazingly beautiful screened in porch to sit in all year round!  What makes this all even more exciting is that I FINALLY feel like I can get organized.  Is it going to take some time? Yes.  Will I have to spend a little extra $$ in order for it to get the way I want it? Yes. But it's all worth it! Especially since I have a baby to enjoy it with me!

I am so looking forward to moving day and getting to start completely from scratch!! Thanks to pinterest I am getting a TON of ideas of what to do!!  I will have to share before and after photos with you all soon!!

Welcome 2012!!!

"Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And auld lang syne?"

Welcome 2012!  It's so very nice to meet you!!! It's really amazing to me how fast time goes by... I am SO excited to see what 2012 has to bring for me and my little family!  I've finally started to figure out how to be a good mom and actually get things done!  One of the things that I have found is that I actually feel the need to have a tangible calendar.  Which is odd considering for the last 4 years I have heavily relied on my outlook calendar to schedule my life.  Now that I am a stay at home mom I find myself really wanting to have a calendar that I can walk around with.  With that said I was going through pinterest and I found my perfect planner!  It's by Erin Condren and it's ADORABLE!!!  When I read the quote by Henry Thoreau I felt like it was speaking to me (cheesy I know, but still!)!  Here's what it looks like! 

 

I also have a LONG wish list of things I would like to get from there so if anyone is reading this (i.e. parents, husband, siblings etc) GIFT CARDS to Erin Condren would be GREATLY appreciated for my birthday or Christmas 2012!!!  Here are some of the things I am looking forward to getting (first is the address book but I want to change the color, second are return address labels and lastly is the iphone4 case in "favorite things" and I am currently working on my favorite things list!)! 

Well, on that note I must be going!  Little Eloise is calling my name - well more like "Ah-goo" which means I am awake and will be wanting some food soon!  Until next time...

A very quick 2011 recap!

Is it all ready a new year?! OMGoodness!  I can't believe how quickly it's gone by and what a bad job I've done at blogging. I have so much to catch up on and instead of writing everything out I will do a little photo montage :)  Enjoy! 

We welcomed our first little bundle of joy ELOISE ELIZABETH LEBLANC at 12:49pm on Nov. 1st, 2011!

We also have made another BIG decision and purchased a house here in  AL!!! We close in a couple of weeks and move in at the beginning of February!!

Here's to 2012...