About Me


Welcome and thanks for reading! I remember the first few years of being a hatching homemaker and how daunting everything was. I grew up on a boat with minimal housekeeping skills and pretty much clueless on how to be a homemaker (besides knowing the general ideals from Leave it to Beaver). I didn't know how to clean a toilet (our marina bathroom was always well maintained), how to keep a kitchen burner clean (we only had a microwave growing up), and never had the slightest problem with ants (they never liked salt water?). I did know how to rescue sea life with capturing and calling up Sea World (no people, they're not monsters, they have an awesome rescue program!) and enjoyed cleaning up the sea and finding an occasional trapped animal in trash that managed to get into the water (once I caught an octopus in a bag without realizing it. What a shock when it crawled across the dingy!). But anyway, yes, minimal housekeeping experience. In my first years of marriage, and even now, YouTube.com is my friend. You don't really need any experience to become a homekeeper and it can be a learn as you go job! Knowing more though obviously is ideal, but there are many things and careers in life that you just have to learn on the job. For example, my husband, a computer engineer related to me that college was practically useless and just a hoop to get a piece of paper (college is always 20 years behind current technology it seems), and everyone coming into his work field was essentially expected to be useless for the first few years. So doesn't that make you feel better if you're lacking home economic skills? It did for me! However, it still didn't help me become a better homemaker... but feeling good at something never really helps you accomplish anything. Getting help and advice from family, watching "my bathroom cleaning routine" and "how to clean your bathroom" on YouTube were some things that helped me! Also making a cleaning chart made things exciting with some awesome, motivational quotes and really cute pictures helped push me along :)

Currently, our family consists of my mother, Linda, our youngest son Scotty (born 2018), our daughter Emilie (born in 2014), our eldest son George (born in 2012), and my husband and I.