A Recovering Chocoholic's Nightmare...

I've now been sober from Chocolate for an entire week! Can I get some love?! So proud of myself! So Max decided to celebrate my 1 week by doing something special for me. We're on Spring Break right now so I was having the kids help me clean the house for "Monday Cleaning Day." Well, Max decided he wanted chocolate milk and proceeded to bring the box of Nesquik to me while I was cleaning the bathroom. By the time I turned around to notice that he was carrying the box of Nesquik upside down, the container opened and ALL of the chocolate powder contents were on my bathroom floor. Great! Thankfully it was on the tile so I just grabbed the vacuum and suck it up real quick. No biggie. So I go on with the rest of my cleaning and finish up with vacuuming the house. Well, as I'm going along I begin to realize that I smell chocolate. The entire house smells like chocolate. What the heck! I'm dying here! I guess the powder that I sucked up was releasing all sorts of delicious odors all over my house! I resisted the urge and just enjoyed the smells and went on with my day. Maybe I'll take the vacuum for a spin a little more often now, just to get my fix. (This is not an actual picture of what happened, it's just what I found when I googled images for spilled nesquik...you get it)

Chocolate Rehab, Day 3

I have now gone 3 days without chocolate. Wow. Who would have thought? Now I spend all day singing Rihanna's song "Rehab". Chocolate, you're my disease.

Chocoholics Anonymous

Hi, my name is Brittany and I'm a chocoholic....(insert "hi, Brittany").  Seriously, it's ridiculous.  The only flavor of dessert that exists in my life is chocolate.  No lemon bars, plain cheesecake, key lime pie, or any other sort of stuff for me.  Blah!  It has to be chocolate.  I come from a long line of chocolate lovers, it goes way way back in my ancestry.  Anyway, as much as I love chocolate, I hate that I have to have it.  It's my addiction.  In order to conquer my addiction, I'm putting myself into "Chocolate Rehab".  I'm not even joking here, cold turkey.  I haven't really set an exact time frame for this rehab, but I'm going to try to go without for the rest of the month.  Can I do it?  I'm certainly going to try and buy myself a new outfit when I do!

Organized: Pantry

I've been working on organizing my kitchen so the major factor in that thing is the pantry.  I couldn't even take a before picture because it was a nightmare in there!  I had all these mismatched bins to hold all my baking stuff and my flour bin was being held together with duct tape (it got set on a hot stove and melted).  So sad!  So I went for it and took everything out and started from scratch.  I went to Wal Mart and got their new Rubbermaid bins.  They are tall and recantuglar, not round like my previous ones were.  This way you can put more in the same amount of space and they stack nicely.

I used my new labelmaker to differntiate the different baking items. I love that they all match and my flour no longer has duct tape! Hooray! I also picked up some bins at Ikea to put my rice and pasta items in. I got different bins for these because I wanted to have a pour spout on the top. These were on 2 or 3 bucks a piece and work really well.

My other bins that I had before did not got to waste. I ended up putting chips, pretzals, oats, and pancake mix in them and labeling them. I like it a lot better than having random boxes and bags in there. So here's a tiny look at the finished product. You can't really see the whole pantry, but you get the idea.

I even have room to spare!  Wow!  I love being able to see everything and know that everything is in it's place and stocked up.