Hey there!  How are you doing? My name is Caitlin and I am now a blogger— I guess?  

It’s definitely going on my resume either way though—100% not sharing the link however.   I am hoping to make this a space where people can come together for some commonality, hopefully some laughter, while also trying out some new skills.   I am currently a stay-at-home mom of two.  I am homeschooling my daughter (she’s a unique cookie…I am sure I will write about that some time).   My son goes to our neighborhood bilingual school.  (Yes, that was a humble brag).  Both kids are fully vaccinated, but I still enjoy canning stocks and embroidering.   

I do also own a bakery/cafe, but I am feeling very salty about how much stress that brings into our life while keeping us at a steady level of poverty.   I know I will be writing more about that.   My therapist doesn’t want to hear anymore about it anymore, I am SURE of that.  

My house is a mess, I only wash my hair twice a week, my kids’ rooms are trashed and I refuse to clean them.  

But I am not here to brag….  

I am here to find friends who can relate and want to give themselves some grace in this rat race of social media and The Jones’ and, I dunno, the Kardasians……. 

Okay, I can’t start on a lie.  I never miss an episode.  God, I love trash reality television.

I have a strange obsession with the show “Sister Wives”.   I could be given a PhD in it.  

Oh, on the topic of education, I did go to college to become a teacher.  Even went on to do all the credit work towards a Master’s in TESL/TEFL and never defended my thesis, so no, I don’t have the paper…. But whatever.   I have never been a great finisher. 

And that’s another hope of this blog.  It’s for the inspired creators who just never managed to finish that paint job in the kitchen after suddenly deciding their family needed a new fridge.  BUT! new fridges don’t fit in our 1970’s houses.  So yes, I did give hammers to our children to randomly take out a wall in our tiny kitchen. They took out a wall. We semi restored some parts, let the kids paint others… yadayadayda.

But THIS fridge. This fridge has changed my entire life. And it is WHY it is the poster picture on this blog. This fridge represents organization, autonomy for the kids, people being fed, dogs not being able to eat shit off of the counter… just EVERYTHING. THIS fridge was the catalist to my life at this age.  

But NO!  I never finished painting the rest of the kitchen.  Get off my back.  I’ll get around to it in one of my procrastination spirals just before we sell the house.   

**Logs into portal to request an appointment with therapist next week**

But I do want to call this a “Lifestyle blog”.   I want to share recipes, embroidery patterns, advice on canning, gardening, homeschooling, parenthood, chickens, the apocalypse…. All of it!  But as much beauty and peace I find in doing all of those things, I just can’t bullshit you that I am this calm, well filtered, Focus Film-period-piece person that is going to give you great calm as you read this and try new things.  

I am here for the laughs, the fails, the successes, and the grace.   So, hopefully you will want to read on! 

I am a woman-of-a-certain-age and I probably will not be posting a lot of photos of myself due to the 11’s that are chiseling in in between my eyes.   I also love the whisper of secrecy.  “Who is this woman who has got me canning but also convinced me to bring 12 chickens home without telling my husband?”

Well I tell you, it’s me, Caitlin — and welcome to my blog, “She Thinks She’s Funny”.