Okay - In case it’s been hard to decipher, I’ve moved some of my categories to different sections of the same blog, moved SystematicChaos over here, moved the kiddos’ blogs to here, made 2under2 it’s own blog, and created AccidentalDesign - a place to show off and hopefully start selling stuff soon (in process of creating my Etsy shop), oh, and a place to swap recipes.

Why?

Because I’m going to try to earn money from ads and selling stuff.  I’m going to try to increase my blog traffic in order to help mamas who are struggling like I was (and am still!).  And because if some of you only want to see the sewing, recipes, or the homeschooling stuff you can get a direct feed to each of those blogs.  If you, like the grandparents!, want to know when the kiddos blog, it’ll be obvious. 

And I’ve tied it all together with the front page navigation.  These will link to each of the sections and will feature a new picture and excerpt when I have something new on that particular blog.  So you won’t have to wonder where to go - I’m trying to make it a little easier to follow me! 

This has been a dream long in the making and almost as long in making it happen!  It’s been a long month at this screen.  And it’s still a skeleton of what I hope it to be.  There will be sidebars with ads, slideshows with “Confessions”, “Keepin’ It Real”, “CurrentReadAlouds”, “CompletedReadAlouds”, “Lapbooks”, “ProjectsInProgress”, “FailuresInTheKitchen”, and more!  I will link to all you wonderful people that I haven’t kept up with for a month, and I will fill in all those cool “links and resources” pages.  I’ll also be featuring one of y’all’s cool posts on the front page (where that annoying plain gray square is now), I’ll steal your picture and excerpt of your post and put it there for the whole world to see!  And buttons!  I’ll make buttons!  So stay tuned, spread the word, and come back often!

And keep on eye on that front screen - thejoyfulchaos.com - when you see a new picture in one of those squares - that’s a good sign that I have something to say there, as Christina said -follow that crumb!  It may just lead to some marvelous “cookies”!