words on the wall

 

Are you?

 

 

I found these wooden signs at a hospital gift shop of all places. They had a whole wall filled with different sayings. These two jumped off the wall and spoke to me. Am I living the life I imagined? Some days yes...some days no. Need to work on that!

Have I made a difference? That's what I really care about. To be honest, most days I don't really know if I've made a difference. And I hate that feeling.

Sure the kids have been fed, the dog walked and the bills paid but I just feel like there is more I need to be doing. Oddly enough, I have no idea what I'm looking for. 

Shouldn't I have this all figured out by now?

This mid-life is tough stuff!  Anybody have it all squared away and willing to share their theory?

things I wish I had known

 

When buying furniture, I wish I had noticed all the detail on these chairs!

The more detail = more dusting!!

 

Black bedroom furniture gets really dusty! Like you could dust every day kind of dusty!

(yes I like perfume and no I do not like to dust)

 

All that free "stuff " you've picked up on the curb and still haven't done anything with is really annoying to your husband and a constant source of misunderstandings between you and said husband!

 

Buying Lego sets for your child will lead to incredible amounts of clutter!

 

And really, where do you store all the Lego's once they are put together?

 

Each child you have produces tons and tons of outgrown clothing! Ugh, where to go with all this stuff!

I'm beginning to think school uniforms and home uniforms would cut down on all these extra clothes!

 

That size 8 dress that has been hanging on the wall next to the treadmill (as inspiration) for the past 4 years is probably never going to fit! Unless you get your jaw wired shut and you only consume liquids for the rest of your life! (let me just add, I only paid $12 for the dress and bought it because I love navy and kelly green together and thought it would motivate me to drop a few sizes)

 

And finally, I really, really wish I had known Bruce Springsteen back in 1988!!

And yes, it would have totally been legal!

So tell me, what's on your list of things you wish you had known?

main line love

Travel soccer takes us to all kinds of interesting places! Sunday, we traveled to the western suburbs of Philadelphia. Also known as the Main Line. According to Wikipedia, the main line is an unofficial historical and socio-cultural region of Philadelphia comprising of a collection of affluent towns built along the old Main Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Or you could just call it LOVELY!!!!!!

 

 

Here is just a little sampling of the gorgeous properties that I could photograph without causing a traffic jam or pissing my husband off because I'm yelling "STOP", "SLOW DOWN", "PULL OVER" every two seconds!

 I need to just ride a bicycle all over these parts with my camera in hand so I could take in all this beauty!

 

 

Now if I only  had about 3 or 4 million for a little starter home, I'd be moving here in a heartbeat! Good-bye cul-de-sac, hello Main Line!

a day for me!!

A rainy Saturday, soccer game cancelled and absolutely no plans for the day. And then it hit me, I'm planning this day with just things that I want to do for a change! Every weekend I am a slave to my kid's sports schedules but not today. THIS IS MY DAY!

Oh yes I did! Chick-Fil-A, Wegman's, Target and Model Home Tours here we come!! And the rest of my family happily piled in the car and off we went. NOT!

I have always wanted to visit this neighborhood called Walden. It just sounds so quaint.
This is the model and it was lovely. Sadly, I only took pictures upstairs because the realtor was downstairs and she knew I was being nosy!

 

Top of the stairs looking in to the master bedroom.

The house is full of windows, which I absolutely loved. Until I thought of the expense of all those window treatments. But the natural light was fantastic!

 

I thought this idea was genius! A 3-way mirror in your bedroom, what woman wouldn't love to have that!

  

Another idea I loved was this little work space at the top of the stairs. I would prefer it to be in the kitchen but this works too.

Quaint little homes line the streets and they all have front porches! And the garages are all at the rear of the homes, great idea!

The yellow is growing on me.

Some streets have townhouses as well as single family homes. I like the colonial look of these. 

So, girlfriends the moral of this post is.........

Plan a day just for yourself every once in a while

You deserve it!!!

The family stopped complaining once they had a delicious Chick-Fil-A vanilla milkshake in their bellies!