Six Word Saturday

The end of a lifelong friendship

If As The World Turns ran for 53 years, I surely watched it for 50.   My mother, and her mother, and  most all the other women of their era carved time out of their daily schedules for “the stories” of which As The World Turns was always one of the favorites.  Many is the family gathering where all the womenfolk discussed the Hughes and the Stewarts and the many scandals and heartbreaks in Oakdale.  It was a wonderful diversion from our day to day life.    As an adult, I have remained an unashamed fan.  I love that for years, women (mostly) could put aside their cares and responsibilities and lose themselves for a bit in the lives of people who became old friends.  Some of the same actors who began with the show in the 50’s have continued their roles all these years.    I will sorely miss not only the characters and twisted story lines, but also this link to my grandmother and to all the women everywhere who for one hour a day left behind the cares of their world to enter into the drama of another.

Wednesday Link Love

Loving these candles!

I know four precious fingerprints I’d love to have close to my heart!

I’d be hard pressed to pick the funniest in this group.

Make sure you scroll all the way down to the link for the video.  It is precious.

Wonder why I haven’t seen one of these around the Derby City in the Bluegrass State?

Maybe for our 25th anniversary DH and I will have another wedding….and we will give out these.

Love these chairs!!

Oh!  Look at what Amy has to share with us!

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Wednesday Link Love

LOVE this mirror!  I’ll be hitting up the thrift store soon for some costume jewelry!

Rebecca makes this look a lot easier than it probably is, but it’s a sweet fall project.

Another dollar store project.

This looks fun…if you know how to use a sewing machine…..but this one looks more my speed.

I like Sara’s Cup of Kindness

Want a little perk to your day?  Check out this video of some friends who visited our church.

Landslide

Well, I’ve been afraid of changing

Cause I built my life around you

But time makes you bolder

Children get older

I’m getting older too.       Landslide - Stevie Nicks

 

The week before my “baby” left for college, a new and disarming vertigo set in.  The day would be going along normally, and then I would feel the earth shifting and I kept feeling as though I were sliding.    I knew enough to expect a great sadness as I watched another child leave for college and I had been really staring that down, but I had not addressed the issue of all three now being gone. 

I woke up on the Sunday before she was to leave in pure panic- what would I do with my time, what would define me, what kind of social life would I have apart from being a mom?   C was leaving that day right after lunch and when he said the blessing at lunch I wanted to say, “Stop talking so fast.  Go slower.  Go very very slowly.”  Sliding.  S had left, but I knew she would be back on Tuesday so I had that to hold on to.  And then we did it-  we took that baby and all of her stuff and made her new bed and pulled away.   S, having made the ride home with me the first year I took C to school knew what to expect and let me just wail and sob all the way home.  DH was flat on his back on the bed,  lonely as could be for his baby.  I laid down flat too, thinking that the shifting feeling would subside. 

And it has, for the most part.   Other family responsibilities and work upon work have kept me more than occupied and in some ways relieved not to have to figure out how to juggle meals and carpools in the mix.  But  today when I dropped K off after her first weekend visit,  there was this groaning in the earth and this sliding. 

I know for sure that we will survive this, that a day is coming when in fact I will actually start to enjoy it.   Probably the week before they all come home for the summer…

The Reveal

I was ill prepared for the rigors of shopping at IKEA, and for the assembly of the furniture.  When you get two big chairs and a huge couch and nothing is in a box deeper than 3 inches, you sort of start to get the picture.  But DH and I (mostly DH) worked like  we were on some HGTV special with a deadline to have it all ready for K’s arrival on Saturday night.  There is still a small chest that is unassembled…..it was assembled…….by  me……..and everything I put on, I put on backwards.  So, that will come in time.  So, here’s what we did!

It’s a very tiny room, so wedging everything in wasn’t easy! 

The couch turns into a really good size double bed with a simple lift and click, one handed.

The chair makes a very comfortable twin bed.

The beautiful sari fabric I used for the curtains just doesn’t photograph well.  They are gorgeous.

Thank you IKEA for good simple bedding options for our big family in a little house!

IKEA Bound!

This

is the bedroom my “little girls” have shared for years, minus the dragonflies around the windows which had already been removed before the picture.  I have dreamed of giving the girls a better, more grown up space, and of giving my son a better bedding option.  So, S gave me a great head start by breaking all of the furniture down after we dropped off K, the painter showed up last week, and the room has evolved to this

and after a run to IKEA tomorrow will hopefully evolve into a room that will be a little more grown up than pink and purple dragonflies.   I’m so excited!  I mean, when I say I have dreamed about giving them a better room, I mean I have literally dreamed about it!  I can die tomorrow night, happy to at least have all the makings under roof.  The girls don’t visit often, but at least when they do they will have a room befitting college girls.