A Good Day for Blogging

For a long time now, I have wanted a new bed spread.

I had been just putting on our regular old, ugly looking blankets. Holey and dingy (Am I spelling those right?), they didn't do our beautiful bed justice--and I just put up with it because we aren't the type of people to go out and spend a fortune on a bed spread--we are too cheap too smart to spend that kind of money.

So, company was over a little while ago and the wife needed to go into our room for some privacy and I thought of how she would see our ultra-utilitarian {read: functional} room--with the home-school books stacked in plastic lockers on a little table and the piano/piano books on the other side of the room--oh, and just for good measure add to that the three white trash bags of stuff to take to GoodWill sitting next to the piano (among the other things my children bring in there).

I pondered what thoughts crossed her mind when she saw our very shabby bed covers and I thought for a moment that I wished that we had spent some money on one (years before anyone would have gone in there).

So after all that thinking about my bed and it's non-existent bed spread....I talked to myself about it and I talked to the Lord. I emphasized how cool it would be to have one that looked nice. like in the catalogs.

I dropped that wishful thinking and went on with my life--and then it showed up--out of nowhere....

My husband's Grandma was moving and called and asked if I wanted her old bedspread, I said yes, not thinking that it would be anything that was my style, but I wanted to honor her--and she came by and a new relationship started: me and that bed spread--beautiful.

So, now my friends, if you come into my house, I will be thrilled to let you in my still ultra-utilitarian room, (don't mind the bags of stuff and the fan)--but this time it will have a gorgeous bed in it!

Ahh! The simple life. :)

(The lighting in the picture sure makes it look nice--it's hiding all of the "useful" stuff behind the photographer. ;0)

~B