Home is where your heart is.
We spend a lot of time thinking about what we don’t have. Of course there is always the new car, a million dollars, an overseas trip but in particular we spend a lot of time thinking about “in the next house”.
And then we found a block of land. Naturally we got really excited and started imagining what we could do. We are positive thinkers, well dreamers actually and it took “him” to bring me back to reality. It would mean moving. Twice. Once into a rental and then into the new home. It would mean building stress right as Master O starts school for the first time. It would mean selling our house during a bad market time. It would mean selling the home that both our children were born into. The home we built together, with dreams of a family. A place of baptisms, birthdays, and BBQ’s. It dawned us. We have spent so much time thinking about what we would do differently next time we don’t appreciate what is right here under our feet.
We have just been living in our house. We haven’t put much effort into making it into our HOME. The poor thing is six years old and has not been appreciated for everything she is. So this week I am grateful for our home. I am grateful for finally realising that we need to appreciate everything we have and not what we don’t have.
So starting now and continuing in 2012 we will show our HOME how much we appreciate her. We will decorate, organise, de-clutter, transform and add our own fingerprints to every inch of this HOME. It will change with the seasons, with our growth, with the budget and with us.
Each month we will tackle a new room, a new project, a new junk collection, a new way of making our lives organised, beautiful, smart and fun! Naturally I will be sharing with the flock every step of our journey! In fact I would love your inspiration, your ideas, and your photos as we go from room to room, project to project!
So 2012 is going to be the year we stop living in the clouds and instead live where our hearts are every day and where our heads rest every night.