Life's been racing by at lightning speed. But then again, isn't that what it does when we have chlidren? Suddenly those same years that draggggeeed by when we were kids, now tirelessly race from week to week.
And my weeks have been filled with all the things that make summer great. and life worth savoring.
Strawberry picking. Charis's first weekend away (a church campout). A friend's baby shower. Get-togethers with friends.
And a whole lot of decorating.
Exhibit 1A: A section of my "new" dining room...
Did my old dining room need to be revamped? No. I actually loved it. We had my Nana's antique oak table and chairs and buffet. It was beautiful.
Okay, so it still is. Nana's old table just got the leaf yanked out of it. two captain chairs stored in the attic. and it's oak hindend moved to the corner of the kitchen....where a rather large L-shaped desk used to be...
The desk has since been moved elsewhere. displacing something else in another section of the house...
And thus has been my life. But I wouldn't trade any of the exhausting frustration for anything. Because God saw fit to bless us with this dining room set for the amount of money that ONE of the eight chairs would have cost.
Yes. I'm serious.
My mom says we have the "furniture anointing". :) Because we have gorgeous furniture throughout our entire house. Items that are ALL second-hand. Gotten as a present, hand-me-down or yardsale buy for pennies on the hundred dollars.
Love my house.
But because this ginormous table takes up the majority of our large dining room, it meant that we had to rearrange the entire house in order to accommodate our new little God-gift.
So that's what I've been doing. Redecorating. Reshuffling. Reorganizing.
Getting rid of excess. Giving people furniture that we no longer need. Generating boxes and boxes of stuff to donate to the goodwill. I love me some purge-the-crap mode. And tomorrow's trash day. Oh Glory.
Yes, I am sick sick woman because I happen to l.o.v.e ridding my house of clutter.
And yes, I'm sure there's some diagnosis for my obsessiveness . I mean, isn't that what doctors do? Sit around and come up with some biological excuse for all of our quirks and flaws? *rolling my eyes* But I digress.
Anyhoo... man, I am lovin' the way that my house is shaping up!! More pictures to follow.
