Allow me to introduce myself...

As I sit down to write this, I can't help but feel slightly pretentious. I'm now a "blogger." Don't hold that against me, ok?

In the lea of a picturesque ridge…

Just kidding. And for my fellow Schitt's Creek fans, that one's for you.

As I sit down to write this introduction, I can't help but feel slightly pretentious. I'm now a "blogger." Don't hold that against me, ok? See, I've always wanted to write a blog because I enjoy writing and I enjoy connecting with people. But I'm not sure what I have to say is blog-worthy. I guess we will find out, won't we?!

So here goes nothing. As you may have deduced, my name is Anna. I'm a 34 year old married mom of 3 girls. Ava is 14, Nora is 3, and Macy is 1. And my degree is in finance so after some quick math I can confirm that yes, I had my oldest when I was 20 and yes, there is a big age gap between she and the younger two. We really wanted to run the full range of attitudes or the next 20 years of our lives so we planned it that way. Not really, but I suppose that's a story for another day!

We live in southern Maine and as a family we enjoy playing outside, pizza nights, daycare days, and naps. As for me, I love margaritas, true crime, laughing, and reality TV (like the so bad it's good kind - The Bachelorette, The Real Housewives franchise, etc). I work full time in commercial banking and until March 2020 I commuted 40 minutes into Portland to my office. Then Covid hit. The kids were home, I was working overtime supporting the extra work going into PPP loans, and I thought...I should spend all this free time starting my own business! And so Organized Chaos with Anna was born…

But I'm getting a little ahead of myself. See I don't have a lot of time to spend on making things perfect and I think the reality is that not many of us do. But we feel the pressure that we should be doing IT ALL. Frankly being a woman is exhausting. After years of trying to be the crafting, baking, in shape, doing it all wife and mom who is climbing the corporate ladder I finally gave in to the glorious imperfections of life and mustered up the courage to take a chance. I changed jobs in 2018 and joined a department I truly love, even though I lost the office and the title. But you know what else happened? My happiness and confidence and creativity flourished. My mindset shifted from "I'm in Groundhog Day," to "anything could happen today and that's exciting!" My confidence in being able to handle change and challenges has grown more in the last 2 years than it has in my entire life. So by the time the opportunity to start my own business arose earlier this year, I was still nervous, I was still hesitant, I was still anxious…but I did it anyway.

Over the last 8 months I have honed in on my passion for connecting with other women and laughing (ie: commiserating) together about our imperfect lives. This new platform gives me the chance to do that every single day. I may have a Pinterest account, but now I pride myself on the fact that I've never made a single thing I found on there correctly. At this point I’m sure I'm not even blogging correctly, but that's the beauty of being your own boss!

Yes I'm a mom and a wife and an employee…but now my mission as ANNA is to encourage women to embrace their authentic, busy, loosely organized, sometimes forgetful selves. You don't need to have the Pinterest perfect home or life to feel fulfilled or organized. My goal for this blog is to offer you real life solutions for your every day busy life, but to also build meaningful friendships with other busy moms who want to regain their individuality as the beautiful badass women they are.

THIS is Organized Chaos with Anna and I'm so glad you're here!