30 day challenge: Challenge 2: A clean kitchen.

I was rooting around on blogspot today, and found some blogs that I liked.  One woman, had a picture of her kitchen sink, full of dishes, having cooked for 4 hours to create some marvelous things.  Her dirty kitchen sink was cleaner looking in appearance than my clean sink.  I became disgusted!  I rolled up my sleeves and went to work in my kitchen.  I gave my son some cut up green beans to keep him busy-- he's just learning to eat finger foods-- and I went to work!

 I scrubbed and scrubbed my kitchen.  And I decided for my second challenge:  30 days, a clean kitchen.  Now to make this possible, I have to come up with several problem solvers before they start.  I don't want to spend all my time in the kitchen.  SO I made two dinners tonight in order that I wouldn't have to cook tomorrow night.... thereby making my efforts to save money and have a clean kitchen more feasible.  In previous attempts to have a clean kitchen, I would simply stop cooking.  But since this is not an option, now that I have a wiley 10 month old, and it's easier to eat in then it is to go out.  Cheaper too! 

Here are the results of my efforts.

Which were immediately hampered by my son!  Who made me think that keeping a kitchen clean for 30 days with a 10 month old would be more of a challenge than I want to take on!

30 Day Challenges: Challenge 1: 30 Days - No Cannolis!

I've absolutely decided some things about my life are fantastic!  I have a great God, a great husband, a great son, and family, and I love my job.  But there are some things that need work.  So I'm instituting a series of challenges.  My overall goal in these challenges is to improve my life by learning to be satisfied with what I have been given. 

So here it goes:  Aristotle said, "It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."  It would be rather ridiculous of me to give up on desire.  After all, God made me with desire.  I'm thinking though, that my desire needs to be aimed in the right direction-- and not at the cannoli! 

Seriously! 

When did my love for the cannoli get out of control????  I mean, it started with the occasional minature cannoli while shopping at Publix.  This has now grown into a disaster of gargantuan proportion.  I crave them daily.  I think about how light and sweet they are, and how they just feel so wonderful-- even now my mouth is watering--- and I just ate two BIG cannolis. So far, this week, I've had 3. 

I was planning to do a series of 30 day challenges.  I thought all day-- long and hard about what challenge would be first, and right now giving up the cannoli is a challenge!    So my first challenge to myself is:  No cannoli's -- 30 days!