This is My Life....

FIRST...THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for helping me out with designing my art space...I can't wait to show you what I've come up with by combining so many of the ideas that you sent...THANK YOU SO MUCH....

...now, for today's post!
This Is My Life

Today before church, I put a roast in the crock pot, and when we got home, I made some gravy, boiled some potatoes and all seven of us sat around the table for dinner.

About 9 years ago, Marq drove his pickup truck to an antique store, where I had finally made my last payment on a table and hutch set. I loved the table because it pulled out 2 stretches of extensions in a really cool way, and I thought it would be a perfect table for a growing family.

That table was in our first house in Eagle, then moved to our farm…where it sat in the fully-windowed dining area, not big enough for the extensions, but big enough for the middle section to be pulled out. The extensions got pulled out once a year, maybe…on the years that we had Thanksgiving at our house. We usually ate around the big bar, in a hurry, one or two or three at a time…sometimes all together, mostly not.

About a week after we moved into this house, I had an important and life-changing realization. Our first night there, my nieces and nephew were visiting, so we pulled the two extensions out. We saw beautiful, perfect wood on either side of the worn out wood. We all sat down together, using a step stool for an extra chair.The table was full of all of us and lots of laughter and talking and the sunset through the window. We never put the extensions back in…and that week later, I realized that we had sat down at that table every night for dinner, as a family, all together.

….And I think this week marks 2 months of living here….and I can say happily that we have had dinner together almost every one of those nights, all together, around this table.

….and almost all of those nights…it was a dinner that I cooked.

….and if you know me, and my weakness pertaining to all things domestic, you will know what a miracle that is.

The biggest miracle is what happens around a kitchen table….this table the has waited almost 10 years for our family to figure out it’s magic…….

……..so, today, I am thankful that THIS IS MY LIFE.

And that I am started to do things that I have always wanted to do….this week I stopped at a roadside fruit stand and picked up some goodies for the kids…something I have always wanted to do…but always ‘too busy’ to stop…
…..and we went to the first 2007 Melba Mustangs High School football game together as a family….I think the last time I went to one was in 1989 in my senior year…
…and….almost every night, I sit in this lawnchair, on my back porch, and I watch the most beautiful sunsets I have ever seen….because I can see for miles out here….

So…this is my life….
…and I’d love to see yours….post links to your blog if you want to join me in my new THIS IS MY LIFE project….just put photos of everyday moments that make your life unique, that make it what it is…that make it yours.
And let me tell you…I can’t wait to see yours…don’t have time? That’s ok…this will be an ongoing project and I’ll be inviting you to join me every single time….

Lots of Love…and thanks again for the studio ideas…can’t wait to see how mine unfolds…I’ll keep you updated.
Lots of Love
Melody