My first day at home

It is my first week as a stay at home wife. There has been several projects around the house that have been bugging me since we moved in. And when I say a several I mean like hundreds! Ok so I'm over exaggerating, but they do drive me nuts and when I try to plan finishing a project I just seemed to overwhelm me when I was working so I just wouldn't start anything! I think that's why I might be getting greys already, but that's a different story.

This would have been much more
dramatic if I took a before picture!

So anyways after making list after list of projects I want to do, I decided to start rather simple. I organized our walk-in closet! YES! After 2 years of stacking clean clothes on the floor, or worse on the dog crate, I decided a enough is enough! I couldn't find a thing, I hated actually folding the clean clothes to know they just end up on the floor anyway! So there I begin. Now just quitting my job and living off one income doesn't leave us with a whole lot of extra money so this was a make do with what I had for the most part. I looked on Pinterest, and that just left me longing for nice wood build in organizers, so I channeled my inner frugalness and got started.

Low light bad pic, you get the idea

I decided I could make it all work if I just had 2 more wire shelves and a couple hooks. So off to Lowes I went, 36 dollars later I had my gear and got started. We have a lack of dresser space (which is also a different story, I will explain more when I post about redoing the master bedroom.) so I just wanted to make shelves to put clean clothes away, organized and where we could see what we had!.  I started by taking everything out of the closet, piled all the clothes on the guest bed and hung my shelves. Now, I consider myself pretty handy, however I must have been tired or something because the first shelf I hung I only measured across and not up from the bottom. I only realized this after I drilled all 7 holes in the wall.....so I re-measured and BAM, first shelf in. Second shelf I made sure to dot my I's and cross my T's. and that was done! I wasn't too worried about the extra holes in the wall because we have yet to paint or patch any other holes in the master yet and plus with the clothes put away you cannot see them. My husband might see it  a little different then I do though! But either way I did it, Yes! my closet is beautiful now and most importantly functional!

My work in progress.....

Hello my name is Alli. I am ever so happily married to the love of my life Jason and we have two stinky, smelly little dogs Oliver and Olivia. I thank God everyday for my wonderful husband, and my blessed life. I am slightly obsessed with my pups, well I do call them my little babies, but I don't have kids yet so I feel its rational. So, This is my start to my blog. There will be a little of everything most likely, DIY, home life, love and cooking. Oh, and of course little snippets of the pups, or maybe just cute pictures, I just don't know yet! Anyway, I will start by telling you about my thoughts since we bought our VERY first house a year and 8 months ago to be exact!

Oliver

Olivia

When my husband and I bought our first house, there was a ton of maintenance to do along with all the visions I had for it. Lets just say to begin with I was very naïve and very ambitious. Let me tell you what, being a lover of Pinterest was no help either. I would go to my husband with fabulous ideas on the most random stuff, like how to paint the outdated countertops and how, we, ourselves could redo the kitchen ect.... needless to say I had put together a mile long list of every last thing I wanted to do. Not to mention that for some reason I thought it would all get done in a matter of months. Oh boy was I wrong! Kinda funny how money and energy go hand in hand, I ran out of both at the same time. Although my wonderful husband had already ran out long before me, I blamed it on the fact he didn't "see" my vision.

My Husband and I
(We go back and forth about the beard!)

So about 6 months into running around like crazy people trying to fix things here and there, then something bigger that I didn't wanted to deal with would happen, like the water heater exploding! Needless to say I was burnt out!! We never had extra money since we put it all into the house, and not even fun house stuff but stuff you don't even think about being a new homeowner! I hated going to my job, which there are more then a dozen reasons why and I just might post something about that whole debacle later, and my arthritis was not allowing me to keep up with my brain. I was sore and tired all the time and my head kept telling me to do this...no this...I felt like I was being pulled in way to many directions. On top of that I wanted to start trying to have a baby! Much to my husbands dismay, he wasn't ready and he probably saw that I was already overwhelmed with all the new stuff in our life. After all, that was the major plan I had, get married, buy a house, have a baby, perfect right? I think that is probably more then half of women's dreams for life. But anyway, all the crazy and stress had to stop. I had to get more organized and gather my thoughts and feelings.

So, I  just stopped doing anything at all. I stopped caring about what happened with my projects and the house. I took off as much time as I could for work, which I felt really bad about. As for the baby, those feeling didn't go away but I did manage to calm myself down about it not talk about it so much. Oh... and there also was a lot more going on then just that. But we will only start there I got to have a little mystery about my life! Haha. Anyway, that leads me to this last couple months. I eventually ran out of days I could take off work and I still felt that I needed more. But lets be realistic here, when I'm only averaging about 2 weeks a month at a full time job, what it the point to having one. So my husband and I decided that we could make it if I stayed at home. So I QUIT!!! Yay!! Now what.... So this is the beginning of my new chapter of life and probably some flashbacks to previous ones! This is my Life on Love's Hill.