Home Is Wherever I'm With You.

I recently entered our home into an apartmenttherapy.com contest for Jonathan Adler "Why Is Your Home Happy." I didn't do it because I think our home is super incredible but more because I think it is super happy.

After recently taking our condo off the market and making the decision to stay put for a while we kind of feel like a whole new light has been shed on our feelings about the place we call home. It's amazing how you learn to embrace something once your mind realizes that there is no greener grass on the other side and that everything about your life is well - pretty darn perfect so long as your family is healthy and love and smiles are constants in your home - so we couldn't be happier with our new found love for the place we call home and most importantly one another.

For today, our simple little morning walks seeing John off to the train or stopping by Olivia's for a gallon of milk have taken on a whole new meaning. And yes, I'm sure as long as I live there will always be a million and one too many glamorous "what if" type thoughts hopping around inside my brain - or a much more amazing home that will forever exist in my mind. But for now, we're pretty darn happy..so I'm just going to live with that.

A New Day

Anyone that knows me, knows that there may be a certain amount of inconsistency (or shall we say free-spiritedness) regarding the way I operate within this world on a day-to-day basis. Without further explanation- I think this blog serves as a perfect example. But on a fall day in early September I find myself sitting here with a laptop warming my thighs, down comforter draped over my knees, college football on the tube and a breeze so perfect it makes you feel like you are falling in love all over again. Okay that was dramatic..the breeze part. But I honestly don't know how to describe how truly incredible it feels when you can open your windows again after a long summer and re-visit a breeze (so really there are not just 4 us in the room right now but 5..John, myself, Sofia, Johhny and the breeze. we'll call him Breezy..and I don't hesitate to count him either because he really is contributing to our day. Or perhaps it is a she...either way it is here and no one is kicking her out). So anyway, after a long summer we are back embracing the fall, attempting to buckle down and begin our transformation into a new season. We have gone from free-spirited hot days driving to Wisconsin because it sounds fun to get in a car with air-conditioning, a good CD and an iced coffee - to a complete and utter overhaul of organization. We have enrolled Sofia into school. We wake up at 7 am without alarm clocks, and we talk about what we are having for dinner - sometimes before noon. So here we are in early September..loving every minute of our fall so far. Our kids are healthy, a breeze is knocking our socks off and a mother is blogging again..it's a NEW day.

Things i Like This Week

Bells of Ireland and Orchids to Make You Smile.

sink baths and uncle nicky in town from LA

eating breakfast, being squirrely, testing out the new cam..

I love this..

desiderata - by max ehrmann

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.