Your Place of Solace…Part 2

This funny little corner of the dining room is so oddly special to me. It’s where we keep our wedding album and a book that we made full of photos of our daughter Clara along with a shadow box from our wedding day and some of my favorite little objects (like the white ceramic squirrel and a small gold box full of love notes from the hubby). Even the dark teal paint on the back of the bookcase and the curtains that I sewed myself just make me happy. It’s not a spot where I sit, but one that I walk by and glance at with a little giddy grin. After six months of living in our new house this corner is one of the places that makes me feel most “at home.” Sometimes I just walk in there and stare. Weird, but true.

2. My dressing table: for many of the same reasons. It’s loaded with objects of sentimental value, and that are so “me.” The table was my moms when she grew up, was mine growing up. I did all my homework on it, it went to college with me, to my first home after college. It was in my first home I shared with Andrew. It’s a piece of my life. On it, I have all my lovely smelling things. I ADORE perfume. There are actually 12 lined up there. I wear what I feel for the day, what I feel I need. I mix some of them to make my own scents. Also, my favorite pieces of jewelry are there. A jar of blessed water from my blessing way. On difficult days, I bless myself. My prayer flags, and crafts from the children. I look around, and feel happy. It’s a table loaded with happiness, and good things.

3. My guest bed: This is sorta random, but it’s in my home office, and I LOVE hanging out on that couch. Maybe bc this room is really MINE. The light is so nice through the window, it looks out on our garden and blooming hydrangeas, across the wall from is is loaded with inspirational quotes, drawings and pics of my family. It’s comfortable. It’s easy.

I also sprint to this spot when the kids nap to eat lunch, maybe fold a bit of laundry, and catch up on some TV shows.This is also the spot “M” and I sit in the evenings!!
So it’s a special spot all day for me!  It’s a spiritual place for me in the morning, a place for housework and entertainment in the afternoon and a place for me to reconnect with my husband after a long day!

The Inn at Bay Harbor – Petoskey, MI

Lastly, The reading chair in Liam’s room…this is where we sit every night as a family before Liam drifts off to sleep, and read books like Pirate Potty, over, and over, and over..I will ALWAYS cherish the time spent in this chair , we have been doing this ritual since he was 6 weeks old, and are starting to see the number of books increasingly dwindle…we use to read 4 books and he would say more, or before he could talk, give us the sign for more..now after 1 book he says, “Bed Mamma??” and I say NO!!! MAMMA NEEDS TO READ TO YOU WAHHHHHH” haha I joke ( kind Of) I love that chair and everything it means to our little family 🙂

The quilt on the back of Liams Chair is from Red Envelope, it has every word that you would hope for your little boy. Its one of my favorite gifts we got after we had Liam, from my friend Katie