Hanging out with My Mom

Hi friends,
Warning: This blog post today has absolutely nothing in the least bit to do with decorating. Even though my last blog post said that I was probably done blogging, Losing My Steam, I decided to pop back in today because I see that many of you keep visiting my blog each and every day. So, what the heck, I'll share what's been going on in my life.

This week I made the 4 1/2 hour car ride from our home south of Raleigh, North Carolina to my parent's home in Fairfax, Virginia. My dad has gone up to Maine for a convention that he organizes every two years for his past work organization. This will be the first time that my mom hasn't joined him. I came to stay with my mom to 'mom sit': basically hang out with her, take her to doctor's appointments, and keep her company. I was actually really looking forward to this time together.

Here is the top reason that I am loving my week hanging out with my mom:

1. A bed to my own beautiful self: No cats, no dogs, no kids! Alleulia! Just me, two pillows, a sheet and blanket, and a comfy bed. The family bed is not my thing, nor is it my husband's idea of a restful night's sleep. Our kids have their own bedrooms and beds. We like them to sleep in their own beds. Stay in there you rascals! The night before I came to visit my mom I had a four year old, well, truth be told, my four year, climb into my bed and attempt to sleep with my husband and I. His version of sleeping includes sleeping horizontally across our bed between the two of us which really means that he's kicking one of us while he's tossing and turning and head butting the other one of us. Needless to say, we get that knucklehead back into his bed as soon as he falls asleep. This happens about once a week, one or the other of our children say they're scared or couldn't sleep and try to find refuge in our bed. What this means for us is intterupted sleep. Notice, I didn't mention that I mind sleeping with my husband, with our king size bed, he has his half, I have mine. Sleep is soooo underrated I think. I love it! I am going to bed early here at my mom's every night and plan on sleeping in (anything past 6am is beautiful!). No alarm clock jarring me awake to make kids' breakfasts and rush them out of the house to school. (I really do like being a mom and love my two kids....really! It doesn't sound like it, does it? Honestly, I do.)

Get in your own bed, son!




Maybe I'll pop back in and share some more later friends. Thanks for joining me today.

We have some very exciting news in our family that we are waiting to happen today that I'll share soon.

Hope you're having a joy filled day. If not, find something that brings you joy and do it! Now!

May you have a restful night's sleep! Sweet dreams my friends-
Megan

Losing My Steam

Hi friends,
I want to thank you for joining me today. Honestly, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for joining me every time that you do. It means so much to me when you email me with ideas, questions, and input. I love hearing from you and learning all about you. I have made several friends from my blog which has been such a blessing. I starting blogging about a year and a half ago when my family (handy husband Steve, Bryce- 6 year old daughter, and Brayden- 4 year old son) moved from Northern Virginia to a quieter, little slower paced life near Raleigh, North Carolina. I went from working full time in the math office for the 12th largest school system in the USA to being a part-time traveling math educational consultant. I found some time on my hands and a house that was twice as big as our previous home that needed to be decorated. I had so much fun sharing with you my ideas about how to decorate it- sharing some mistakes (not really mistakes because you learn from it and change it out if it doesn't work for you) and thinkings along the way. It's definitely still a work in progress, heck, we know it'll always be a work in progress! But, I love it that way! I love spicing it up- rearranging furniture, buying some new pillows to add a pop of color to the room, or grabbing some new flowers or item to add interest.

If you are a regular visitor to my little decorating blog you might have noticed that my postings have been happening a lot less frequently lately. This little blog started out as a place for me to be creative and share a little bit about myself. I have never made any money from it (my choice) or tried to turn it into a business. It was just a place for this mom of two young ones to have something of her own to fill her bucket.  Well, I wanted to share with you that lately I've felt uninspired to blog. I haven't felt moved to do any new postings. I think I might be losing my steam. I guess I could have just stopped blogging but I thought I owed it to those of you that continue to stop by daily or weekly to let you know what's up. I truly appreciate your coming along my decorating journey with you. It's been fun. I may feel inspired in a day or a week or a month to do another blog posting or I may not. All I know for sure is that right now, it's not there for me.

I wish you a wonderful week and weekend. I hope that find love with your families and friends. I wish you joy, passion, and fullfillment in all that you do.

Here's a few of my favorite pinterest pictures to share with you before I sign off today:

 

Happy decorating & living,
Megan
meganlawbrewer@yahoo.com

Spicing Up the Family Room

Hi friends,
You might have seen my last post about how I spiced up our living room. The living room spicage (is that a word? no!) came about because of this spicage. I decided to move the sofas around (mostly to make myself clean behind them (Hey! That's where that missing playing card went plus too many legos to mention!). I brought this small chair and a half (below on the left) together with his partner sofa. The small chair and a half had been hanging out in the living room next door. I thought these two friends that we purchased over a year ago when we moved in probably wanted to finally be together in the same room. My husband and I have already discovered that we LOVE the fact that the gray corduroy ottoman is the same size as the chair and a half. Perfect for cuddling! Not to mention that the exact moment we tried out the cuddling on the chair and a half together both kids decided that they had to snuggle in with us and we all fit on it (that's pretty amazing!).

 

Thanks so much for joining me today.
Happy decorating & living,
Megan
meganlawbrewer@yahoo.com

Spicing It Up in the Living Room

Hi friends,
Thanks for joining me today. I hope you're having a good week and are going to have an awesome weekend.

Okay, this is sad and I have a problem. I spiced up the living room this week and before I even had a chance to share the changes with you, I have already changed it again. What can I say? I've had both kids back in school full-time and I've had the week off of work so I've had time on my hands to play decorating. I am not going to lie, having both kids back in school full-time has been soooo lovely. I've felt guilty how absolutely lovely it has been. I've gone for walks every day and have been trying out my new 'prayer chair' (I can't wait to share that with you). It's been heaven!

Back to decorating.....the living room.....a week ago this is what we were working with:

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I decided to try out the old wicker chair arms from the eat-in kitchen in the living room and took out the small cabinet. Here's where we were earlier this week:

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Then today happened. I decided to spice up the family room (which I need to share with you) and that spicing up led to this spicing up. I needed this old Pottery Barn white slipcovered sofa to go somewhere (it got kicked out of the family room)- I am waffling on Craig's Listing the old sofa or trying to find a spot for it upstairs in the bonus room. See what you think.....(don't look too closely at the slipcover on the sofa- it's time to throw it in the wash)-

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I have to admit that at first I thought, 'NO WAY' about putting this large old sofa in this small room (we actually tried it in there when we moved in) but after peeking at it over the last couple of hours now I am warming up to the idea. I'm not saying that it might not still find it's way upstairs in the bonus room or find itself another home from a Craig's List friend. We'll see old sofa...you're old but you're comfy.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Happy decorating & living,
Megan
meganlawbrewer@yahoo.com

New Temporary Artwork

Hi friends,
Thanks for stopping by today. I wanted to share with you an idea I had for artwork for my home office. I had a hole on one portion of a wall in my home office that needed something- some type of artwork. I have my eye on a 'Cottage Rules' sign on www.etsy.com but I didn't want to spend the money on it right now. So, instead I went up to our attic and walked around to see what inspiration I could find.

I found these two white glass cabinet doors that go to a piece in our Bonus Room that holds DVDs (we took the doors off the cabinet so that the kids could easily get to their DVDs). I thought maybe I could use the doors to display pictures:

I was also thinking that I could display postcards or special cards. Perhaps I could even make this piece into a 'vision or dream board'. The possibilities are endless and all I need to do when I tire of  the items on it are swap them out. I simply hot glued clothespins onto it to hold what I wanted to display.

I am pretty sure this piece won't stay in this space forever (nothing stays forever anywhere in my house!) but until I get something better, I think it'll do for now.

What do you think?

Thanks for joining me today. I hope you're having a great week. I need to update my BOOKS tab soon and share what I actually ended up reading this summer. How about you? What were some of your summer reads?

Happy decorating & living,

Megan

meganlawbrewer@yahoo.com