Category Archives: Messy Things
MY STAIRS
The stairs leading from our main level to my upstairs “suite” double as book shelves, shoe racks, and a holding ground for things I just don’t know where to put. OK, let’s be honest, things I just haven’t put away yet. Anyway, I finally noticed that headline a few days ago. The irony is not [...]
FAREWELL, DEAR ABBY
Last Friday, not far from where I live, Dear Abby breathed her last, leaving this earthly home for another. But her legacy, as they say, lives on. And, at R-house, it lives on here: On a simple pink couch that, we are told, once belonged to the advice queen herself – and now belongs to [...]
Also posted in Beautiful Things, Everyday Things, House Things, Remembering, Thinking Tagged House Things, life, pink couch 1 Comment
CLEANING HOUSE
When you’ve had a week filled with vivid reminders about just how much of life you have absolutely no control over it can be therapeutic to find a place where you do have some control even if it means that after an hour or two on your knees you’ve only changed the color of three rows of kitchen tiles and you [...]
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A LITTLE CHRISTMAS
Well, I was going to take this space tonight to tell you how it only took us a week to finish decorating our Christmas tree. (record time.) Or how R-boy hung the star on the tippy top this year. (a first!) Or how it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here. (13″ snowstorm [...]
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THANKFUL
for the dinged up floor in our living room because it means we have a living room and a floor and a roof to match and shoes that scrape against the wood and feet to wear them and legs to carry them and lives that take us in and out and back and forth and [...]
Also posted in Celebrating, Heart Things, House Things, Inspiring, Thanking, Wise Things, Wording Tagged floors, House Things, Thanksgiving 1 Comment
REDO
Do you ever find yourself clicking command-z or undo or rewind a few times before you realize wait. this is real life. and not your computer? Yeah. Me neither. xo __ P.S. I am guest posting today at my good friend’s amazing blog. Check it out here. __ [photo taken at one of my favorite shops]
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UNFINISHED
The painting that hangs in our living room, above the mail and the keys, is an unfinished watercolor that I found rolled up and buried deep in the basement of an estate sale. It had no frame and no name. It cost me about 25 cents. There were other paintings and sketches in the pile [...]
Also posted in Beautiful Things, Growing, Hard Things, Healing, Heart Things, Inspiring, Wondering Tagged GRACE, Painting, Perfectionism Leave a comment
FALLING
It was not an ordinary day.
But I'm thinking it's probably all pretty normal for a season of transition. And I happen to know that shaky places like this can lead to stronger ones. Seriously, like boot camp.
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GOOD FRIDAY