Homemaker

Greetings, friends!  I recently changed my career title on facebook to read stay at home mom and wife.  This is my new career which I will probably be doing for the next several years.  I am grateful to say that I love my new job!  I love spending each day with Emerson and think he is the cutest thing ever.  However, I am also a stay at home wife, aka a homemaker.  I guess that means I make home... I am supposed to make our home feel like a home.  So, in order to create a more organized system of my making home, I created a cleaning schedule for myself.  It is a two week cycle that looks like this:

Week 1
Monday: laundry, change sheets, bills
Wednesday: bathroom, water plants
Friday: dust, kitchen countertops/sink

Week 2
Monday: laundry, grocery shopping
Wednesday: sweep, mop, water plants
Friday: vacuum

I think having a clean house feels good and makes it feel more like a home.  It will be nice to feel like my house is generally clean.  I also plan on continuing my ritual of cooking about 5 meals every 2 weeks.  This past week Caleb requested quiche for dinner.  So we made my mother-in-law's recipe for her quiche.  It was delish.  Here is a pic.

  

On another note, Caleb has successfully defended his thesis!  I learned something new about my husband this week and it is that he is a good presenter.  He practiced his defense presentation with me the night before and I was very impressed with his professionalism and presentation skills (not to mention the masculine jawline that repeatedly caught my attention/distracted me).  Needless to say, he soared through his defense and received very positive, encouraging feedback.  So proud of my honey :)  

On a rather sad note, we recently took a trip up to KC to attend Caleb's great uncle's funeral.  It was a good celebration of his life.  But a neat thing happened while we were there too.  I got to meet Caleb's great, great aunt Esther (Emerson's great, great, great).  She is 99 years old!  So we got a picture of 5 generations in Caleb's family.  I bet that rarely happens!  Check it out:

Talk about longevity.  Well, it is getting past my bed time so I must leave you now :) So long,

Amber, the homemaker