Tammi's World

Heart and Soul

I am so excited. Paradise is slowly, piece by piece coming together.

I'm still paying on the furniture for the Football Room. I refuse to bring it home until it is paid off. So each payday I put a little on it and just keep waiting. It's hard. I'm not known for my patience. But I know it's the right way to do things.....so I keep plugging along.

It's been very frustrating because, while I'm anxious to use that space downstairs, each and every day I'm confronted with empty rooms here on the main level. As I sit at my desk, working, to my left is a big empty room that is waiting to have some attention paid to it.

Well......it's finally going to have a table. And chairs. It will be a dining room again.

I found a desk that I like. AND a file cabinet. I've needed the file cabinet for a while now. These piles of folders and papers has been driving me crazy. But.....like the furniture for the basement, I couldn't just go out and buy whatever. Well, it's on it's way. Should be here by Friday.

So Friday I will pull everything off the desk, and set it all up again. Only this time organized. Then....and for me this is the most exciting part......I'll move this table into the dining room. I've already got a beautiful fall tablecloth just waiting to be put to use. A dramatic bowl with a candle and, while not the end result I have in my mind - a dining room none the less. A table that I can set, and serve my guests at. A gathering place.

While the kitchen is the heart of the home, in my mind, the family table is the soul. Paradise has been missing that. At least to me.

And it's getting me refocused. I'll be putting up the new curtain rods this week, and actually hanging some things on the wall. Little things, but important to me.

Heart AND Soul. Finally.....

Posted by Tammi at October 22, 2007 06:46 AM | TrackBack