Kitchen Wondering

Sometimes I look at pictures of kitchens on blog, or pinterest, or in magazines (because my heart longs for a pretty new, updated kitchen) and one thought always crosses my mind...

**WHERE are all the small appliances?**

If you look at my kitchen counters they seem cluttered with the juicer, kitchenaid mixer, microwave, toaster oven, etc, etc.  But in pictures you never see any of those things! 

Where do they hide them?  Do they not use these items?  Do they have so much more cabinet space that they can tuck them all away out of sight somewhere?  Did they just move them out of the way to snap the pictures?

Seriously... I have spent way too much time thinking about this...

You can find me connecting at these Blog Hops and Link Ups:

The Dwelling Tree: Let's Be Friends
Cornerstone Confessions: Titus 2 Tuesday
Rich Faith Rising: Unite!
Growing Home: Growing Homemakers
Finding Heaven: The Soli Deo Gloria Party

Now I Want A Chili Dog And A Nap

Linking up with A Complete Waste of Makeup for "It's OK Thursday"

It's OK...

It's OK that no matter how much I clean, my kitchen still looks like a disaster area

It's OK that I can walk an hour or more on the treadmill no problem, but 10 minutes on the elliptical machine kicks my behind

It's OK that I'm only working out 3 days this week instead of 5

It's OK to want a chili dog

It's OK to want a nap

It's OK that remodeling the living room has me ready to redecorate the entire house

It's OK not to get this "One Direction" boy band thing at all

It's OK to have lost an hour (or two) in Pinterest

It's OK to think some people have far too much time on their hands (and to be a tiny bit jealous)

It's OK that this is the only blog post I wrote today

Maybe This Week

Ok, I admit that most of last weeks goals did not come to completion.  I've moved on, and so should you.  That was last week.  Maybe this week will be different.

Weekly Goals for July 8 - July 13, 2012

• Write everyday.
• Complete Etsy orders and get into mail by Thursday
• Get that mani/pedi that never happened last week
• Clean up kitchen (including cleaning out fridge)

The Self-Cleaning Kitchen

I want a self-cleaning kitchen.  Yeh... go ahead and laugh.  I heard it too.  But while you may chuckle over my impossible fantasy; I am completely serious.
Before I go to bed at night I want to turn out the light and push a button.  When I stumble back into the room in the morning the dishes will be washed and put away.  The counter tops will be wiped down.  And the floor will be swept.

Oh!  And the coffee will be made.  If I'm dreaming I might as well dream big, right?  Although, for the sake of complete honesty - that part usually happens anyway since The Man of the House is up before me most mornings.  He's good like that.

There will be no more asking a 13 year old boy to empty the dishwasher, only to have to listen to him grumble and groan as if he were just sentenced to 30 years hard labor.  No finding random globs of jelly, or invisible mystery sticky spots on the counter top.  No more going to sleep thinking the dishes are caught up, only to wake in the morning to find that someone has crept in and filled the sink with empty bowls, cups, and coffee mugs. 

Only a bright, sparkly kitchen.  Shiny.  Clean.  Ahhh... nice, huh?

And until the day that they invent the self-cleaning kitchen, I really wish the person mainly responsible for that duty around here would keep up with it a little better.  Oh...wait.  That's me.