Welcome to Domesticity: Meet the Family

Although in today's world it's much cooler to have a "real" job, the most important job is still the one you do at home: keeping your house and family safe, healthy, and happy. There's a lot that goes into that, including cooking, cleaning, gardening, and making decisions for your family. It might not always be the most exciting thing in the world to do these things, but they sure are necessary! And for some of us, they are pretty exciting!

I'm Kate, and I'm a young wife and soon-to-be mother. My first baby is due Feb. 1, which means she could be born any day now! I'm kind of hoping for tomorrow...but I've also been kind of hoping for everyday in the last week or so. :) If you've ever been pregnant, you know how hard it is to wait at the end, when the baby is so big and squirmy that you can't eat, sleep, or get comfortable in any position. Oh well!

Getting ready for a baby means that I am doing a lot of sewing, cooking, cleaning, and organizing. I've totally redone my daughter's room, I've made her a blanket, I'm making her some cloth diapers (more on that later), I've been cooking tons of food and freezing it, I've been cleaning and organizing, I've been working on all kinds of things! I'm also kind of a WAHM (or I will be when I'm a mom), and so I've been working on my business, too. I'm a music teacher, and I work with a bunch of different kids, including kids with autism.

My husband, Ben, works for a major health company, and also runs his own business from home. We both really love business! He actually has a technology blog, too. (I'll put a link to it later.) He is excited about us having a daughter, too. And, when he's home he helps me a lot with household things (I know, I'm lucky to have such a great husband).

My current obsessions? Cloth diapering (especially making them), natural cleaning products, writing my own recipes, cooking lots of food, researching issues of interest in relation to childrearing (especially vaccines), and...I don't know! There are too many things going on right now to write about them all.

So, if you're interested in any of these things, come back again and read more! I'm going to try to post about my adventures pretty frequently. :)