The Cluttered Pantry

The Cluttered Pantry

I’ll divulge a little too much about myself and tell you that when the world around me starts to press in, starts to feel uncontrollable (I am a self described control freak) I tend to organize my pantry. I’m not speaking in some metaphorical code here, I mean I actually go through the kitchen pantry and organize the canned goods and check expiration dates on foods and sort through items to decide what I need to purchase/toss/cook.

In a strange way if my cupboards are a bit of a mess it means my life is running smoothly and I feel on top of things. A true sign that I might need to ask for help is when you slide the door open and you find the canned goods in some sort of Dewey decimal inspired order and all labels turned so that you could do a photoshoot without any prep time.

It runs in cycles with me. I can leave it alone for weeks at a time or I have to reorder things daily to undo any tampering by outsider hands.

In the past year my husband Mark and I started and completed the process of adopting two children under the age of 4 from Russia. We own and manage our own video production and photography business and already have a 19 year old son, 2 dogs, 3 cats and a 116 year old Victorian row house that is an ongoing renovation project. So adding the paperwork and emotional ups and downs of, first adoption, and now parenting, to the mix has led to a tidy pantry indeed.

This blog is my attempt at channeling some of that energy. It started out as dedicated to the process we were going through to bring the Wee Kahunas hope from Siberia, and now is about our every day life. Hopefully, it may also serve to be an interesting platform for the food porn images that I create, recipes that I test and re-test, share the resources that I’ve found for cooking-gardening-parenting-living, and possibly even help potential adoptive parents through the maze they are about to encounter as well as create an opportunity to form a bit of a social network of friends, family, and others, who fit into any of the many many roles; parenting toddlers, renovating homes, running a business or for that matter who just like to read blogs about the things other people are trying to manage the best way they know how.

I’m not an expert. I don’t even play one on tv. I’m just a woman who wears a lot of hats who thinks there may be some interest in any of the worlds I’m juggling at the moment.
photographer/mother/wife/cook/accountant/renovator/gardener/daughter/writer/web developer/business owner/homeschool teacher and you know….human.

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