It’s 2012! Can you believe it?! As much as I have loved the holidays this year and all the decorations, I’m so ready for a fresh start!
2011 was a wonderful yet challenging year. It was the first year as a family of 4, the first year I wasn’t working full time, the year Jill and I started a new business, the year we moved into a new home…So many awesome moments and so many challenging ones as well as I tried to figure out the balance of my work life and my home life. Most days I think I fell a bit short. I hit the ground running in 2011 and by Memorial Day weekend, when we found our new home, it seemed to me to be just a matter of hanging on tight! And don’t get me wrong, every single day I say my thank yous for this amazing life, for my little family, for my extended family and friends, for our health and our happiness and Jill and my’s design business that is growing with wonderful new and old clients. But as some of you know, I’m a creature of routine and don’t love a whole lot of big changes. So this year proved to be a bit more challenging than years past.
Moving has never been a walk in the park for me. This move wasn’t as bad as some in the past…I didn’t completely lose it :) But I felt totally overwhelmed most days during the last 3 months of 2011. I wanted to give my family as much of my undivided attention (don’t know if I managed that too well…but they seem happy and well adjusted so maybe it’s ok!) and I wanted to give our growing business and clients all of the attention they deserved, all in the midst of a move and a mini remodel.
So after getting through the last few whirlwind months, I’ve made my goal for 2012 to streamline. Which for me means get organized (again), have more downtime with friends and family, make our home more functional, give my family (and myself) a bit more structure and more of a routine, and have Living Solutions function and run as smoothly and as best it can, all the while enjoying life’s little and big moments. And in attempting to gain control of this goal, I’ll be documenting my progress along the way!
I am so excited for all the projects I have swirling around in my head and on my long “to-do” list for my own home. And Jill and I have some great ideas for the blog in 2012!!! Quite a few of our client projects will wrap up in the early part of this year and we are excited to share them with you! I can’t wait to see what new design projects are brought our way and how we can creatively and smartly design for our clients.
We appreciate you reading our blog and coming along on this journey with us! We know you’re reading and we would LOVE to hear from you! Please feel free to comment any time on a post {just click on the tiny little “comment” button at the end of each post to add your two cents!} A few of my friends have given me some great ideas on subjects they would like to know more about and all these ideas will make their way onto the blog in 2012. If you have any ideas, big or small, you would like to see on our blog, please either email us or leave a comment at the end of this post. We are always open to new thoughts and would love to explore ideas that can help you (and probably us, too)!
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Thanks again for stopping by and sharing a bit of your day with us!
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