Alright, this is kind of weird to admit, but I’m just gonna throw it out there.

I love cleaning products.

Well, let me clarify – I love good cleaning products.

There’s just something about having a pretty-smelling, perfectly-packaged, hard-working bottle full of wonderful cleaning goodness that gets me a little giddy.

In fact, I spend a little extra cash on the “fancy” stuff when I’m grocery shopping. That’s right – no store brand cleaner for this cheap-o. I buy the good stuff.

I know it’s totally dorky, but there is just something about having the “fancy” cleaning supplies that makes it a little more tolerable to do the laundry. Or the dishes. Or, you know, any cleaning at all.

And, as you can see, I’m pretty brand loyal. I’m addicted to Mrs. Meyers (no, they didn’t pay me to say that but I’d gladly take their money if they want to do so in the future), and I pretty much only buy their stuff. The packaging is adorable, the smells are incredible, and the stuff just plain works.

Annnnd that’s my dorky/awkward confession for the week.

Anyone else get a little too excited about a good cleaning product?

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It has become a bit of a tradition for our family to have a Mother’s Day brunch at my house every year. My sister and I cook and everyone comes over to hang out, eat entirely too much, and just be together.

We had an awesome spread this year, and I always have so much fun when we have a big group over for a meal…I love utilizing my giant table!

Perhaps my favorite part of the spread? The make-your-own-mimosa bar. I probably could have had a liquid lunch, if you know what I mean.

But, um, I didn’t. There was plenty of food consumed.

What did you do for Mother’s Day this year?

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After the cash-hemhorraging experience that was Creating With the Stars, Corey and I are trying to be a bit frugal over the next few weeks. That means no fun little purchases like new clothes or new shoes.

Boo.

There’s something about the weather changing that always has me itching for new stuff, and since I can’t buy any of it right now I thought I’d do a quick roundup of a few things I would grab if I had $100 to spend on myself.

(Sources, clockwise from top left: Old Navy – $34.94, Target – $27.99, Old Navy – $29.00, Forever21 – $8.80 - and yes, I know that’s actually like 73 cents over my budget. That’s okay.)

What would you buy with an extra hundred bucks?

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I mentioned on Twitter earlier this week that Corey and I (finally) joined a CSA – a community supported agriculture. We’ve been talking about doing it since last summer, but we just never actually signed up.

Now that the farmer’s markets are all back in full swing, though, it was on my brain again and we decided to go for it. We went through Johnson’s Backyard Garden and we picked up our first box on Saturday.

Basically, the idea is that every week (or every other week, which is what we are doing), you go pick up your box and it has a random assortment of fresh veggies from a local farm. We had a ton of stuff in ours, and even had one or two vegetables that we’ve never tried before.

We signed up for fresh eggs with our box, and I’m super excited to have farm-fresh eggs in the house again. They’re ridiculous. We may not keep them in our order for every box because they’re insanely expensive…but they’re soooo yummy!

I can’t wait to start trying out all of the stuff in our box, and I’m excited to see what the summer has in store for us! I have a feeling we’re going to love doing this.

Anyone else a part of a CSA? Any amazing veggie recipe recommendations?!

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There’s nothing like discovering an entire section of your house that you’ve never seen before.

This is ridiculous for me to have to admit, but up until about two weeks ago I had never actually seen the inside of our attic. We’ve only lived here for, I don’t know, A YEAR AND A HALF.

The thing is, when we first moved in the inspector told us that he couldn’t even get into the attic because it was so full of insulation, so he didn’t really fully inspect it. He said it looked sound, it was very well-insulated, and pretty much unusable.

And we believed him.

But, as we’re starting to plan for the Great Garage Overhaul of 2013 (that’s right – it has an official title now!) we’ve been trying to get creative with how to store some of our extra stuff. So one day we decided to check out the attic and see if we could make it work.

Turns out, it was full of insulation but it also had boards all along the floor (meaning we could walk on it), and had a surprising amount of space. All we had to do was shove the insulation to the side and toss some boxes up there. And just like that, all of our Christmas stuff is safely tucked away (eagerly) awaiting the day it can be pulled out again.

I can’t believe we took that long to actually look up there, and I’m SO excited that we don’t have to incorporate a storage solution (like a closet) into our garage plans. We’re one step closer to getting started on this room!

Have you ever discovered an area of your home that you didn’t think was usable? Or is that just us?

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