Well hello, pretties! Thank you for stopping by my blog. I’m so excited to start this adventure, and am so glad you’re taking it with me! I thought I’d start by telling you a little about The Pinterest Wife, why I started it, and what you will find here. I got married a year ago today to my high school sweetheart and was thrust into a world completely unknown to me. Growing up, I was a 3 sport athlete and my mom traveled and worked a lot. We were fortunate to have my grandparents come live with us for a few years in which they took care of all of cooking. Due to the busy schedules of my mom and I, we also had someone who cleaned our house and took care of all of the yard work. I went straight from my home life, where I rarely had to cook, clean, or garden, to college where I lived in my sorority house that also had someone to cook and clean for us. With that being said, did I ever cook and clean? Of course, (I did live in an apartment the last year of college and had to keep that clean and occasionally cooked when I didn’t go to my sorority for meals and my mom did make me do it when we had time.) The point is, I never really learned all the little tricks one would acquire from doing it frequently their whole lives. When Eric and I bought our first house in December, we decided I would take care of all the cooking and most of the cleaning, and Eric would do everything outside, laundry, and dishes. While I dabbled in cooking (mostly baking) during my senior year of college while living in my apartment, I always knew I could eat out or at my sorority house if I didn’t want to cook. Being a homeowner and having a normal, 8-5, schedule, forced me to learn how to be domestic. How did I do this you may ask? Pinterest, aka my lifesaver. For those of you who don’t know what Pinterest is (first of all, welcome to the 21st century) it’s a website that allows you to organize and keep the things you love in one place. They have different categories from food & drinks, to art, to fashion, to hair & beauty–literally something for everyone (I planned the majority of my wedding using pinterest.) Pinterest allows you to organize these things into boards, and displays a picture and brief description that you can always view online which links you back to the original page. Mind. Blown. Anyways… I get 99% of my recipes from pinterest and have also learned A LOT about cleaning (who knew I could clean a house right?!) I’ve always had an extreme love for crafting and pretty much everything DIY. Almost all of my craft ideas that I do myself and with my residents at work come from pinterest.
Over the last year, whenever I put pictures of things I had made (both food & crafts) I always had people asking how I came up with it/ if they can have the recipe (and tell me I’m a mini Martha Stewart…best. compliment. ever.) I figured why not blog about all of it and provide instructions? “Well, why don’t you just tell people to go look at the original site?” Something you should know about me is I am reallllllly bad at following directions (intentionally) and I like to change things to make them my own and to cater to our tastes and make things healthier. Blogging about it and giving you all my way of doing it will provide you with more options and it’s easier than directing people to a bajillion different sites.
Anyways, the moral of the story is I created this blog so I can share my journey from being a girl who was always dependent on others for domestic duties to an independent wife who can take care of her home and family while working full time and still having time for shopping, friends, and wine. Thank you for joining me on this journey, I’m so excited to share it with all of you!
