As I finish up “Love The Home You Have” I see that I may have a long process ahead of me to cultivate contentment and love for my home, but that is not going to stop me! I am excited to begin the #LoveYourHomeChallenge today!
Yesterday as I was standing outside watching my kids play, (which I am extremely grateful and blessed that I can be home with my kids every day, and that we have a home where we can go outside and play and ride bikes!), I dug through unused items in our garage, items that were being saved for a future garage sale no less, and I made a lovely welcoming display for our front door.
Since these are items that I was getting rid of, what difference did it make if they were going to get weathered? And so began this journey of seeing my home in a new light, learning to use what I have in new ways, and ultimately loving the home I have.
Thanks for sharing you first challenge. I love it when I realize I already have what I need to create a welcoming home. It’s funny how my first thought is often that I need to go buy something, but if I can slow down for a moment and look around, I usually can figure out how to solve the problem or create whatever it was I needed with what I already have!
Enjoy doing the challenges, I can’t wait for you to share!
Thank you Melissa! It was so very encouraging to read your book, and knowing you were living here in my neck of the woods was definitely a fun added bonus!! 🙂
I am excited for the challenges and learning to love my home and what I have!
Very resourceful Clarissa! I am inspired to get busy on the challenges this weekend. Thanks for sharing. Have a marvelous weekend! 🙂
Thank you Nancy! I hope you have a lot of fun working on your challenges this weekend! 🙂
Hello, I am Julie
I recently moved from the city. I lived in a 4 bedroom 3 full baths and rooms that you could put two rooms in one. I had a fireplace in the Livingroom and as well in our basement. I bought it in 2020 with the thought it was I was going to be there for at least 8 years. I gutted the whole place and redid, I recently sold it in Feb this year, and quit my job i was at for 7 years and moved an hour away from the city. I also had another part time job, which is the one I kept. I am married, but I always wanted to make my own money. Well guess what… its not like the money I had coming in before. So I am in my new home, had depression for a while, left the job I enjoyed, left the home that I built, to move into a home with my husband, My last home help memories of my mother that lived me ubtil she passed away. I just recently had a very large yard sale. I did go through things and thought i have no room here at my new home for them but letting them go was hard as well. So I do have things left over I would like to use. The home I’m in now, our new dinning room set we bought for the other home is way to big for our new home, we have 2 bedrooms upstairs and working on making my office in the basement. where I have a small window for natural light. The home I left those windows were so big, I had to order special window coverings for them. I’m kind of at a lost here. I have not hung anything on the walls yet, but a picture in our dinning area which is coming down, it hung over our fireplace at the other home and one pic in Livingroom. Our furniture fits in living room , but once again it was in a very large Livingroom before with plenty of room around the furniture.