it's alive!

or rather, I'm alive - barely! Wow, first off, lets have a round of applause for the driver extraordinaire, moi! Last night, at 1am, we returned from our 2 weeks of "vacation". While some of you have done some intra-continental travel this summer, I'm pretty sure my intra-provincial mileage can hold it's own. Down to Lethbridge, over to Calgary, in and around Calgary (somehow I got nominated as the extended family chauffer), back to Brooks, up to Edmonton, back again to Brooks, down to Cardston, back and forth to Lethbridge, up to Calgary, and home to Brooks. Phew. In case your wondering - I'm done, I'm gonna hermit-it-up for a day or two before I venture out in to public...but, what's this?!? An empty milk jug in the fridge and a requesite trip to the grocery store?!? Noooooooooooo!

victory

Today I overcame a huge obstacle in my life. It was a torturous journey, particularly the last 24 hours or so. You see, I'm afflicted with petite kitchen-itis. This means that I've been storing dishes and other kitchen what-not in a hutch in my dining room. My fabulous, twice-the-size-of-my-kitchen, dining room. Oh, how I love you DR! Anyways, I have, as of this morning, managed to fit all of my kitchen belongings into my 5 kitchen cabinets (I only get the number 5 by adding together half and partial cupboards). AND it's neat and orderly too. This has been a year long process - every other month I cut a little clutter and try to consolidate and organize. I'd like to thank all the people who made this effort a success - the builder (who clearly has never had to prepare his own meals - ever!), my children (who loved pulling everything out of that hutch and spread it willey-nilley around my home), Sherraine (who endowed me with a gift of out-of-seasonal candy so generous that I had to rearrange my cupboards to accomadate it), and of course my husband (without whose ginormous slurpee mug eternally cluttering my countertop, I might never have found the motivation to persevere and find a cabinet home for or discard all that useless junk).
On a COMPLETELY separate note. Anyone with a kind heart and cabinet space willing to give a home to a bunch of baby spoons and a babyfood grinder, please leave a message in the comments.