In case you hadn’t noticed the posting around these parts has been sparse. There is a reason other than extreme laziness I swear, well a couple of reasons. For starters I have a one-year old and am currently growing another human, absurd amounts of work I tell you, I don’t recommend trying both at the same time.

My main reason however is that I’ve been working on a new project, a new blog. I’m extremely blessed to have such supportive caring friends who push me to put aside my fears and “go big”. Seriously I can’t thank them enough for all the hand-holding I’ve required while putting this together.

I struggled for a long time with wanting my blog to be a personal space and yet wanting to make it more of a business as well. I always worried that going for one thing was completely cutting off the other. I feel like I’ve finally found a solution to the problem. For me the answer was to put myself out there in different places and stop trying to force it all into one space.

For a year now I’ve been a writer at Aiming Low, and I can’t begin to tell you what that collaboration has done for me, especially my self esteem. Recently Heather and Meghan asked me to join them at Hot Mom Reviews and I’m so excited for the opportunities that will bring. Still I felt this need to be doing something that was completely my own, something I was passionate about.

So without any further ado, I introduce to you my new endeavour, The Casual Organizer (www.thecasualorganizer.com).

I hope you will all join me over there where I will do my best to share all of my organizing knowledge and know-how. A special and heartfelt thank you to my wonderful friend Maria for all her help in designing and coding of the new space. I could not have done this without her. Also thank you to the fabulous AliMartell and Amy for all their grammar policing and general proof-reading. (editor’s note: neither was privy to this post so ignore any errors here)

As for this space, it can go back to just being about me, my kids and my family, everything I originally wanted it to be. I couldn’t be happier!