Kitchen so far

I've gotten around to this finally, and figure I'll put up a few pics. I've only done the walls so far. Just didn't have the "umph" do to more than that. Cabinets will get done this summer when Daniel is off. 

BEFORE PICS (Daniel took these)

 DURING PICS (Also Daniel)

I did TWO coats of primer.... blah!

What's that you may ask? PAINTABLE WALL PAPER!!!!! LOVED THIS! It went up super easy, and I used less than a whole roll from Lowes.

AFTER (I took these pics):

I went with a fresh, light gray for the walls

And metallic dark gray for the wall paper. I was very pleased with how it turned out.

24 hours?

I've learned that no matter how much I pray that the Lord will add an additional hour or two to my day, it will never happen. I need to learn how to use all 24 hours of my day. I am terrible and managing my time, and when you work from home this can be VERY challenging, and can hurt your business. This is what my day normally looks like:

5:30am Wake up and work out
6:30am Shower, then eat a healthy breakfast of oatmeal or eggs
7:30am Jesus time
8:15ish Office time- read email, reply, etc
9:30am time for phone calls
10:30am Run errands
12:00pm Healthy lunch such as a salad
12:30pm Clean one room of the house
2:00pm Attend any appointments I may have for work
4:30pm Begin preparing a healthy, hearty dinner for my sweet hubby
5:30pm Dinner
6:00pm Play a game with Daniel, go on a walk, or watch news together
8:00pm Read a good book or do a craft
10:00pm Good night :)

I'm sure your day looks just like that, right? Ha. Who am I kidding. Normally my day consists of waking up when the dogs are ready to go outside (which Sam alerts me by licking my face), eating a bowl of sugar cereal, reading for a few minutes in my Bible, head upstairs to my very messy and unorganized office intending to reply to emails and make phone calls, but instead get distracted by a recent post on Pinterest, and the next thing I know Daniel is home and hungry. OH NO! What happened with my day?! I don't even know what I did all day, but I DO know that I did not clean, cook, work, or eat lunch...

It's time for a time management reality check. If I can't instill some sort of daily routine now, I certainly won't be able to when I have kids. I know myself well enough to know that this can not happen over night. It must require BABY STEPS! So. Step 1? Start planning my day out ON PAPER. I have never been good with keeping up with planners, but I do enjoy having a single sheet of paper that shows my whole week, and each day broken down. I put my creative side to work and made this to help me out.

Planning my day out will also require waking up at a certain time... guess it's time to figure out how to set my alarm clock!

Well, we shall see how Step 1 works out for me this week! Any suggestions from your time management extraordinaires on what Step 2 should be?