I am impatient. Matt is very impatient. We want our house to be finished and feel like our HOME. We haven't been able to put much effort into getting our house ready, because we've been working on getting my previous residence--a two bedroom townhouse-- ready for the rental market. New flooring, touching up paint, cleaning, and moving TONS of stuff out has taken up a lot of our limited free time.
Yesterday, I came across this blog post, which seemed to give me a little more peace and motivation about the whole process, yes, PROCESS. I had been thinking of decorating our home as a single event--we'd get it done, then enjoy. But, in reality, it should be a long process over years and years of slowing collecting, creating, and showcasing the things that are meaningful to us and that make us who we are as a family.
"Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you LOVE brought together under one roof."
I want this to be my new motto as I get started on the process of creating a home for our new family. So I decided that if I'm going to work to be thoughtful and purposeful about the items that go into our house, I also want to record their meaning to my family... enter the blog. A place where I can catalog my decorating adventures and record the significance of items that will one day be inherited by my future children. One day they can read this blog and understand who made that quilt, where that table came from, and what the meaning is behind that knickknack.
So I guess I'm writing a blog now...
"A meaningful home has to take time and age to create. It’s understandable that we bought meaningless art when we were first starting out. We were young and had nothing of real meaning yet. That’s okay. I still have some meaningless things. But as I get older and my home changes, it reflects more of us and the story that we’ve created."
