Dreamy Master Bedrooms

A dream is a wish your heart makes

When you're fast asleep

In dreams you lose your heartaches

 Whatever you wish for, you keep

Have faith in your dreams and someday...

 Your rainbow will come smiling through

No matter how your heart is grieving
If you keep on believing
The dream that you wish will come true

Blooms

2 things I love:
Flowers & Surprises















This bouquet has gotten lovelier by the day. I adore the combination of flowers, the colors, the fragrance...

The thrill of receiving flowers that I didn't send to myself.

Eden was equally elated to accept the delivery & quickly claimed the attached "bloooon!"

Letting Go

2007

Last Thursday morning, my husband & I entered the same courthouse where we'd renewed our vows that very week last year. Later that evening we left as newly-unweds.

2008

We sat together on the steps outside and smiled & laughed & cried....

2009

He smoked cigarettes and relieved of his vows to me, shared the details of some of the lies he'd lived throughout our marriage. I noticed that as I was listening to his confessions it seemed to facilitate for him a sense of renewal, so with mixed emotions I listened to him come clean. I sat there stunned but also strangely fulfilled that I could finally sort of please him in some way.

In his rare honesty, I felt so much love for him that my heart couldn't hang on to the unforgivables any longer,

just like that I had more admiration for him than ever.

We walked and talked for hours, sat by the river and danced in the street, watched the Sun rise and then: he went back to his life and I headed back toward mine.
 
Once we were apart it hit: I felt like I'd been beaten to near death. By the man I love the most.

I was overwhelmed with sadness. Grief.

2010

Anyway, I've learned that there's no value in spending any time trying to understand the unknowns and the "whys?"

In cases such as this, it does not matter whose fault it is.

Furthermore, time does heal, but not if you spend it trying to make sense of the past. The answers will come on their own, in their own time.

I'm letting go. It's over. I'm going to play on the floor with my babies, sleep well, stop worrying and embrace this second chance.

After all, of everything he's ever given me, letting me go was the greatest gift of all.

Michelle's Pix

I'm so lucky that I've been able to stay with my Parents at their home in Wyoming.  For the most part we've got the run of the place. Or, Eden has the run of the place, anyway.  My Mom is remarkably unfazed by the baby mess.  So, it's TOYS everywhere and crayons and paints and books, books, books!  Not a design aesthetic that I ever envisioned for the place I call home, but as long as Grandma doesn't mind I'm gonna go with it because Eden loves it.

Meanwhile, to satisfy my inner Decorista, I envision what our next home will look and feel like once we're settled again.  I imagine my babies in the beds on the pages of the Restoration Hardware catalog and save the images from around the internet that inspire me.

What a pretty Monogram, I love how easy that pillow arrangement
looks like it would be to make every morning while still being equally pleasing to look at.

That big, beautiful piece, surrounded by neutrals is show-stopping!

That corona! How gorgeous would two of those be above parallel cribs in a shared bed/playroom

I love the unexpected Florals and the combination of old and new.

I could live in this living room: the layered rugs, contrasting styles of pillow covers. . .

Beautiful Mama #1

Sand, Sunshine, twins and Gucci. Jennifer Lopez has never looked better.

Never-Fail Hiccup Cure

My cousin Melissa shared this pearl of wisdom with me and in 10 years it has never failed me.

If you get the hiccups:

Fill a drinking glass with water,


Drop a knife in it.

Drink.

You will be instantly cured.

My Fave

Cocyntal Homeopathic Colic Relief, I fave you because you've quieted my baby's heart-wrenching cries.

He's a happy







Well-rested







Comfortable







Little bundle of gurgles and coos.

So thank you, and my brother for ordering it off of my Amazon wish list, and my realtor for recommending it.

Fave!