Now that the dishes are done, I'll introduce myself. . .

Beyond the dirty dishes is a life drying on a rack. I'd like to say I'm the crystal cake stand, but I am more the frying pan: useful and durable. I've started this blog to reflect on my ordinary life and appreciate the extrodinariness of simplicity mixed with shot of chaos. In the last six years since my daughter was born, I've wondered what I used to do with all that free time.

I'm here to tell it all, the good, the bad, and the dusty. To share with you what other mothers don't say because too often I watch women produce to the showcase life like on The Price is Right-- they are there with the trips to Hawaii, matching ceramic dalmations at the door, a new Kitchen Aid blender, and (say it) a Brand New Car! Yet, look a little deeper behind showcase. The car is being leased, the blender was purchased on credit, and no one had fun on their family vacation. It's what we were taught since we were young: don't tell them that.

I hope to provide the daily life from the perspective of a stay-at-home mom with a six-year-old daughter, the wife of a firefighter, someone who lives in a small rainy town not far from a large city, who is going to receive her master's degree this summer, but who doesn't want to go back to work, someone at 37 who knows what she wants to be when she grows up, but who doesn't want to grow up, not yet, and not completely.