wow!! that was an awesome read and a very good reminder!! Thank you for sharing it!

You so are utterly correct! It’s all about perspective. I used to be on the “other” side and all it did was put me into debt. It took me many years to be happy with myself and you know what? I like THAT person, not the other one. I love staying home taking care of my hubby and kids when they were little. I love canning and most importantly, I love me just as I am. You have a beautiful family and kitchen 🙂

Thank you for a wonderful, right-on perspective!

Thank you.

Love, love, LOVE this! That’s all. 🙂

My husband likes to say that we live better than the kings and queens of old. It’s true! We have:

clean running water
toilets
electricity
a warm house
a huge variety of fresh food
forks and spoons
plates that aren’t made of lead
paved roads on which to travel

Your kitchen would be considered quite large in Europe. Kitchens there are much smaller; I had one smaller than the bathroom; when you opened the oven, you had to stand to the side, because the oven almost touched the wall across from it. That one was a blessing, too–and it was nice to have it be in its own room, rather than in a corner of the living room, with a counter no bigger than the size of the top of the stove.

I knew families there who lived in one room apartments–one room, for the whole family, like a log cabin in size and living arrangements. The lucky ones had a kitchen or bathroom–not a bathroom down the hall for the entire floor.

I’ve received criticism, too–that I wasn’t giving my children enough THINGS. These were things that other families felt were essential to living, but really, they were all luxuries, and none were as important as all of the blessings that they have. My children are fed good food, they are healthy, they are happy, they have clothing and a roof overhead. These are great blessings.

As we struggled with income for many years, I showed my children some people’s homes across the world.

Shortly after that, for a couple of weeks, my 3-year-old would pray every day, giving gratitude for what we have, naming new things each day. He was thankful for kitchen counters, plates on which to eat, couches on which to sit, a rug, a floor, a table and chairs, a stove, etc. It was very eye-opening and helped me see that I am more blessed than I realized

I love your makeover!! Thanks for the perspective! We all need reminding of all that we have and to not take it for granted!!

I LOVE this! In a world filled with more, more, more, this is definitely a call to appreciate what we already have. Thanks!

Awesome, awesome awesome. Thank YOU!

I love this! Good for you not buying into the “upgrade” BS.
When I was buying my condo everytime I read “Granite and Stainless” I wanted to gag.
When I have friends that buy places with lovely and well-maintained 50’s and 60’s color tile jobs and they talk about how they need to “gut the bathroom” my heart wrenches just a bit.
I’m sure if I sell my condo someday I’m going to have some realtor tell me to make some upgrades…but I love my yellow formica counters tops, white stove, tomato orange walls and my 50’s chrome kitchen table/chairs–someone else will fall in love with them or they can do the dirty work.

You are so my new hero! I wish we weren’t judged on how upgraded our houses are. I so wish we are neighbors! My husband calls all those papers my pile of doom. He never has to keep up with all the kids paperwork, the house paper work etc. Thanks!

Some great points. I just thought I’d point out one thing… public school is not free. You are paying for it if you pay taxes.

I highly recommend everyone who is able to go on a trip where you actually get involved with the people of a third world culture. My husband and I just returned from Uganda. I totally connected with everything Glennon said here! Yesterday when it was pouring rain for a long time, rather than worrying if there was any water leaking into our basement I was thankful that I could still use my bathroom, cook, get water out of the sink and stay dry! I remembered the mud huts that we have visited in so many villages. They are almost quaint when the sun is shining and the weather is relatively dry, but so much of the people’s living is done outdoors that I am sure it is a totally different picture during the rainy season when it rains every day nearly all day! So yes, like Glennan, my kitchen is definitely not as current as it could be, but we have working appliances and functional tools to do the taskes that need to be done! Thanks for sharing Glennan! I refuse to let the retail lords be king over my life anymore!

Outstanding!!!

Best thing I’ve read all year. Thank you for your perfect attitude and for sharing it.

I so love this! Love my kitchen, too! Our updates…in our likewise happy kitchen: Removed wallpaperdue to it peeling more and more, removed the half walls of dark panelling~painted them, and the dark cupboards! That was after being here 11 years, and original to our 70’s home. Hubby and son, tiled floor, with salvage place tiles…that we bought, and waited another 8 years or so, to put in! Saving up to do so! Basic fridge, keeps food cold, works for us! Many things in this home are well loved~it’s a good thing!

THIS IS BLOODY FANTASTIC!
THANK YOU!!!!!

That is all!

Love!

thanks so very much, a lot of us needed to see this. Beautifully expressed. Carry on!

My pink bathtub takes on new perspective today. I have indoor plumbing, hot water, and a big, long tub to soak in. Thanks for the reminder that God is good!

I 1,000% agree! I love this! You are beautiful! Your family is beautiful! And so is your lovely, lived-in, happy home! Thank you! THANK YOU! God bless 🙂

Yay! You said it so well. You know what else cracks me up? So called “green” remodeling. Truly being “green” would mean keeping what you already have…not throwing it out and replacing it with “green” alternatives, lol.

I needed this today. Thank you.

Thank you so much. I sure needed this because like you , others want to change my style. My style is a lived in loved house where my kids and grandkids and friends are welcome to relax and have fun.

Thank you for this post! Someone asked me one time what was my decorating decor. I responded that I decorate with dogs, cats, and kids! She seemed shocked by my answer but I love my home just like it is. Full of love!

THANK YOU!!! I’m smiling from ear to ear…this is the BEST POST I’ve read in a long time. I’ve put on my Perspectables … it’s time to get my joy on!!! 🙂

Looks a lot like the BEST kitchen I’ve ever had! My current kitchen looks like a bar fridge (only the fridge part, no freezer), a sink, and a piece of linoleum floor below the sink on which I sit a rice cooker when I need to cook. I live in a small studio apartment in a major city, without a real kitchen, because I am trying to save money to buy a real place. I look forward to having a kitchen something like yours at some point again! 🙂 By the way, NOTHING wrong with birch laminate and black appliances. If I were to design a kitchen from scratch, that’s probably what would be in it!

SO true, yet so insipid and annoying to read. Good luck with judging others because they judged you first, in a post sarcastically inferring people would rather decorate than focus on family.. Whoch probably isn’t even true. I bet you made your friends who “messaged” you super happy!

This is the best thing ive read in a long time. I have a lot of friends with beautiful homes and come home to my old house that needs a lot of work and feel blah. This was a good wake up at how ridiculous im being. Thank you!

When your home is full of LOVE then your home is BEAUTIFUL no matter what! When I walk into someones house I can always tell if it is a house or a home! I like the homes so much better!

This is exactly what I needed to read today! I’m bookmarking to re-read when I start to feel down about our kitchen (and the rest of our house). Beautiful words!

WHO is rude enough to criticize your kitchen? It looks nicer than mine.

Keep dancing!

“Sometimes it seems that our entire economy is based on distracting women from their blessings.”
This. This is the most simple truth. The truth I try to teach my daughters every day. With the annual distraction of “back to school” in full swing, I’m on high alert. They are 12 and 8, and already they are tuned in, as if with a mainline, to whoever is in charge of conjuring up those distractions. This backpack, that notebook, those shoes. They are easy to talk down, Thank goodness, but it stuns me how that pervasive pressure for new and better things travels all the way out here in the sticks of Vermont to get into their brains.

Thank you, seriously and emphatically, thank you for nudging me to use perspectives, lol. This is the first post of yours that I have read and I am hooked. Thank you for your fresh eyes. Much love.

Thank you. We need more role models like you reminding us about what’s important in life, keep thing in perspective! Good bless you!

bless you glennon ~ love you ~ tears of joy and gratitude and respect running down my face ~ love love love your perspecticaled tour xxx <3 xxx jess

Loved your post…must we all have stainless steel appliances and granite countertops? Really boring. Your kitchen and I am sure your entire home has personality!

I love this post. Love, love, love it!
Even though I don’t (can’t) have children, I
Find myself enjoying many of your posts- because even
If you are talking about being
A mommy, there is a universality in your thoughts
That I really enjoy.

Your article meant so much to me. I live in a pretty messy house with two men and four dogs. I am constantly berating myself for how it looks. I’m a lazy slob, a total loser. You put a terrific perspective on the things that really matter. Now if I can just internalize that…

Beautiful post!

I have been lucky enough to visit the Louvre and several other museums around the world, and when I see the treasures they display of ancient civilizations, I feel immeasurably rich. Only pharaohs and nobility had (small) mirrors, yet we have full length ones in every room. That hand-carved stone bowl and chalice I got at The Yosemite gift store look remarkably like the ones Medieval queens once drank from. The selection of perfumes on my vanity would be considered a fortune of epic proportions (I like scents). I get caught up in the material far too often, but frequently, my material obsessions are common things these days, but were once only allowed to kings. Literally. Not just that only kings could afford, but it was illegal for others to do so. If you know about sumptuary laws, you know that most Americans would be in violation of these laws, even those on Welfare. We are very fortunate to live here and in this time period. Your perspectacles are perfectly made.

You’re awesome! This is the first piece of your that I’ve read and basically I’m in love with your attitude…and your kitchen. Dance on!

YES! Sometimes I play a game in my mind: which of my appliances am I most grateful for? It’s so hard to find a winner, because they are all SO helpful and amazing (and I have lived as a mom without ALL of them, even some hard years without a coffeemaker!). Thanks for encouraging us all not to be manipulated into feeling needy by people who need to sell stuff.

Wise words. Perspective is everything. Well said.

I love your perspective on this, you have an abundance of blessing in that wonderful kitchen.

I live in (rural) China and I would be stoked to have your kitchen! Yes, I have a refrigerator but sometimes it doesn’t work or sometimes it is so cold in our kitchen that we have to keep all our food inside it to keep from freezing. We do have a faucet, we’re lucky all our neighbors don’t, they get their water from a well in their yard, but the water that comes out of our faucet is most of the time clear, sometimes brown and I wouldn’t drink it. I also love your coffee maker. I have a coffee maker (a french press, can’t count on the electricity being on 24/7) but we recently moved into a more rural area and guess what no coffee. But whatever, our life is fabulous and yours sounds like it is too.

Nice kitchen, beautiful family… blessed beyond measure…

Wow…I LOVE this!

I watch HGTV and see women AND men going into kitchens saying how outdated it is. They seem to think that everyone who puts a house on the market should remodel the house for the next owner. I like my kitchen the way it is – matching appliances but NOT stainless steel. Don’t like the laminate countertops but they work except they are mauve from the early 90s. I will enjoy my house my way and the next owner can remodel to their heart’s content.

Perhaps it comes down to awareness, personality and balance? This article is a great wake up call for those who may not otherwise contemplate gratitude… for those that do it’s a reminder…YET, there are so many differing ways to live our lives in this world. I am NOT in a third world country, although I have been there and while I still say a silent thank you for toilet paper every single time I have to visit the loo, I can not live in that alter reality. I can be aware of it sometimes but it is also important to live in my reality. I live in the Canadian north where we spend 7 months out of the year mostly indoors in our homes…it is important to have emergency sources of power, up to date alternative sources of heat, and some indoor plants and colour for mental sanity…It’s insanity to not enjoy what we already have or the money that enables us to live how we do. Thought must be given to others but it is also important to keep context.
I am an artist and my home is my canvas. Some people paint, dance, type up research or kyak, beautify the earth with their gardens as a hobby. I make my home magical. I believe we should be engaging in whatever we are gifted with that we must bring beauty into the world…for me, my beauty is in my home.For Glennon it is writing…and I do not just decorate/make art with new trendy items, but with things I can make beautiful to make it a comfortable environment. I don’t judge those who do not do this, but for me it is a hobby that I do on a very low budget on most days ( I even use boxes as shelves with fabric) and it’s beautiful. But even if I DID use a lot of money, that would be my business. Just like it would be another’s business if they spent that same money on clothes, starbucks, organic food, gardening seeds or whatever…the point is that we all have different things we spend money on and that is not what matters. What matters is our attitude and motivation behind what we are doing. That constant awareness is crucial…which is WHY I appreciated this post.
That said, even with wisdom people still can’t help either feeling inferior or superior…Perhaps some of the letters to Glennon about her kitchen were mean, but perhaps they were just from people who wanted to connect in a way they knew how? Or maybe it was a personal hobby they were trying to connect with her on? Motive matters more and we really can’t say they were horrid friends to say such things. We have all commentated on things that are not our business or were meant to connect but were misunderstood…and yes some people are mean about it and need boundaries yet that comes down to personal relationships and should be between those people.
I hear a lot that people matter more than things…this is true, but things are also a part of people. It’s a fine dance of balance. My children and I all have major sensory issues and we learned partially how to self regulate and BE in the chaotic world by managing our environment with soft carpets, soft lights, the right colours ect. This has been proven in research to aid in psychology and health care. A lot of research has been done to show that if hospitals embraced better colours, inspiring artwork, and plants in their rooms, recovery times usually are cut in half…yet our culture does not look at this as important.

Yes there will always be the need for gratitude. Also the need to remember that people have less or no basic human rights…but there will always be someone who has less or more. Yes we should advocate for all human rights but that does not mean we have to live our lives based on that knowledge. Living with that awareness, while important, should not be a deciding factor in our lives. Instead what we should place importance on is OUR personal life. Stepping out into awareness of our personality, our gifts, passions, INDIVIDUAL monetary situation and community who need us and our little families…that should come first…and then gratitude naturally happens in the enlightened moment…and there is no comparing or judging but instead simply BEING.
I do believe aesthetics are important, as well as gratitude and respect for our monetary situations and those dependant on us, and that all these factors can either help or hinder us. The perspective goes deeper and is layered depending on each individual. For my family, the home environment is crucial for us to be able to reach out to others and become who we are without too much pain. This means strictly for us personally, a decorated home that is magical and unique…I KNOW without it we would also be ok because we have lived that way too but its similar to people who knew they were ok on store bought meals or Mcdonalds every day but then were able to afford fruit and veggies. Neither is bad, but its ok to enjoy the store bought veggies. Our coping is easier now because we have paid attention to what we needed. In fact, my children’s meltdowns were cut in half, more than any other therapy method, their environment mattered…it is one of peace and tranquility and it suited us and we did it within our limits and our personalities…that is what is important:) This is great for Glennon and I admire that she listened to what she needed within her limits and challenged her own mindsets…I will do the same with mine and even though I am also embracing gratitude and struggling also with my own battles, my story will look very different and that is beautiful too.

THANK YOU. So much.

I love this! Thank you so much for sharing. People also keep suggesting I remodel my kitchen, such as putting a kitchen sink right in the middle of the countertop where I do my best work. No thank you–I love it as is!

I can NOT believe ANYone would suggest your kitchen needs updating. How rude. Your kitchen looks grand. I love the clean, white tile, the smooth, contemporary cabinets and door handles, and the awesome pull-out faucet, plus an apparent built-in soap dispenser, and the top-of-the-line refrigerator! Not to mention the stainless steel dishwasher, the lighting in the attractive ceiling and the very convenient desk + chair. You have expensive items that exude quality.

Anyone can get a loan and install newer home items, but to clean and care for items as they age increases their value IMO, as in ‘survival of the fittest’. Once something has lasted ‘yay’ long, it deserves to continue to remain in use. Inanimate objects can facilitate fun memories, as in that lovely, old familiar bowl I always use for mixing cakes, etc. If I used a disposable bowl every time, it would be boring; without significance. And if I often remodeled my kitchen, it wouldn’t hold memories; it would be sterile and boring.

Like others, I never comment on blogs, but you have truly hit home. Last fall, we moved from a tiny apartment in Southern California to a mid century fixer in Texas. I keep saying it’s a money pit, and that’s for needed repairs to bring things up to code, not just rip stuff out because it’s ‘dated.’ Now, I will really try to see this with a fresh perspective, that it does have “good bones,” and there’s actually room for our stuff. Best of all, it’s next door to my mom’s house. She is 88 years of age. As we pull up into the driveway that joins these, she always says “Here’s two beautiful houses.”

Your kitchen is wonderful… AND it is clean and tidy ! I love my old fashioned (not shabby chic.. just rather shabby. I inherited its yellow and apricot times from a dear lady who lived here since 1953 with her family, when we bought the house three years ago. I almost know her because the old kitchen remains as it was when she lived here.. I have her cook book… and I know that she baked cookies a lot because that page is falling apart. she entertained her church friends and she cooked for her children… yes my kitchen is not nearly as clean and tidy as when she lived here but I love it. I certainly hope no one sends me plans for ‘modernizing’ it or ‘improving ‘it !

Love this….beautiful family, beautiful home…and it’s beautiful because it’s full….of LOVE <3

Yes. this. This has been so much on my heart! Last year my husband changed jobs which reduced our income quite a bit and we ended up moving to a older house that needs a little love. 😉 Some of our friends and family don’t understand how we’re happy in an older house and neighborhood, but it’s so obviously where the Lord wants us and it’s fun to see His blessings unfold. I recently started talking in gift language esp. with the kids. Things like calling our home “this palace we get to live in” (because, just like the stats you shared say this1979 split level IS a real palace in this world!) and getting dressed we say “let’s put on your nice warm shoes” and dinner is “this beautiful food we get to eat.” For me, when I call out and name the gifts I have before me it makes a natural shift in my heart, from whatever funk my heart might have been in, to a prayerful thankful heart that acknowledges the Giver of life and abundance! and who loves us so undeservingly. Thanks for the post. <3

Your kitchen is great. So is mine. I think it is wonderful that you pointed out how people should be happy with what they have. At the same time, while the words from Walden ring true, I don’t think HDT would have ever posted pictures of his kitchen online.

What we hope to find online are examples of great things. Examples to aspire to. A kitchen everyone admires because there is some kind of excellence obvious there. It is not just a trend, but a standard we can all agree on.

If you can’t afford a better kitchen and you are happy, that is a good point. You’d never see an average kitchen on a cooking show and there is a good reason for this and it is not just about something to sell. A good kitchen represents cleanliness. Cooking standards. And so on.

While I think it is wonderful to appreciate what we’ve got, having hopes for something better is not just about being trendy. I find your article encourages people to accept whatever.

Very well said & a true reminder of how lucky many of us are. I will dance with my family in our kitchen tomorrow.

So smart! We’d all be much happier if we stopped trying to “keep up with the Joneses!” Thanks for reminding us all.

Great post.
Every now and then I get the urge to have dish towels and dinner plates that match, after all, isn’t that what it means to be a grown up?
But then I think better of it.

What a refreshing article! Thanks for reminding us to count our blessings!

I choose gratitude. Thanks for the reminder and by the way, you have a FANTASTIC kitchen! Especially that last shot.

What you’ve said is so true! I live in a country where probably 95% of the people here don’t have ANY of what you mentioned (well, except for the schooling, which was only made free in the last five years!) We have so much to be thankful for!

I am an Interior Designer. It is my career. I own my own business. I went to school for this degree and I love what I do. Interior Design is actually much more closely related to Architecture than most people know. I worked very hard for 4 years to complete my accredited degree and recently passed my licencing tests (architects have 7 to pass and interior designers have 3 to pass to become licensed.)

All this to say, this degree takes a lot of hard work and much more know-how than picking pretty colors. That being said, people tend to take it very seriously. VERY seriously. Too seriously. And this is coming from someone who counts on this industry for a paycheck!

People ask me if I walk into people’s home and gasp at all the awfulness I see. This is a very sad question to me, because it tells me that they think it actually matters. I am so glad that you have this perspective of your home. Homes are for living; unfashionable and crazy. People who take it too seriously don’t have the beautiful life you have. They get caught up in the skin-deep. I say, “If you love your home, then there is no way to make it better.” Your life and home are gorgeous because they are just as they should be. Thank you for sharing how proud you are of the life you have in your home! Thank you for being a person with a good head on her shoulders! It’s a dying characteristic.

I am in years. I really needed to hear this. Thank you.

Well said, sister. Now, to work on all women being okay without makeup in public instead of feeling like they need to be fixed up and remodeled…

This made me laugh and feel, like you, ridiculously happy at what I have.
Thank you

Wow I love it!

This is freakin’ awesome!

I can’t believe people even commented on your kitchen. We just bought a house in December and compared to where we were living – it feels like a castle. But my husband and I kind of looked at each other the other night while we were watching a house “make-over” show and the one lady commented in disgust about the exact floor we chose to have installed in our kitchen after we moved in – the flooring was truly shot and needed to be replaced. But I saw things in your kitchen that were more modern than ours and we just bought our house – oh – the horror. I loved reading you perspective on this subject. thanks for the encouragement.

FANTABULOUS . Thankyou thankyou thankyou for giving my feelings words . You Are my favorite.

I loved this essay. I am reminded of this everyday in my two bedroom, one bath house that is just under 1000 square feet and which I share with my husband, 13 year old son, 16 year old daughter, Leaving-tomorrow-18 year old daughter who is off to college and our dog. What I have learned over the past 19 years in this house is that as long as the water works, the appliances do their thing, the toilet flushes, and the roof doesn’t leak, we are golden. All will be well and all is well, as long as I can hear my people breathe at night and music is played and dances are danced and dinners are eaten. This little house is a little slice of paradise, with no stress about a great big huge mortgage. Thank you for your perspectacles. They are a bonus and blessing.

Love, love, love the new spectacles idea!! I recently had to go to a funeral of a good friends mother. While in the old, never re done 1970’s kitchen, full of orange and brown, all I really felt was comfort at being in a place that hadn’t changed. It took me back to my childhood and all those warm feelings..

A friend posted this on FB. Normally I just move on along. No idea what compelled me to stop and read it.
Glad I did. Very glad. “Perspectacles” is my new favorite word and one without which I do not know how I lived.
Thank you.
I needed this. Badly.

How refreshing! I really enjoyed your article. Thank you!

Brilliant piece. Here’s to being grateful and working together for things that really matter.

I have never commented before but I love every single word that comes out of you. Thank you for writing. I read a book once about a family who moved to Italy when the parents’ marriage was on the brink of falling apart – Halfway to Each Other by Susan Pohlman. There is a part where she writes about an elderly Italian man’s view on cars. Basically, a car gets you from one place to the next. Who cares if it is banged up? Simple change in perspective but so important and meaningful. Less to worry about. Since then, I care less and less when I get dents and scratches in my car. It does not matter. I am free.

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Do you hear that? That sweet, twinkling hum is the sound expectations make when dissolving from the deep confines of our hearts. Thank you. Glennon, thank you.

Thank you for your fresh perspective….I think I’ll go hug my kitchen 🙂

Thank you Thank you for the post! It’s hard to go against the stainless steel,griege, granite crowd , but you will find like minded individuals on the ‘retro renovation’ website. You’re not alone; ‘love the house you’re in’ is one of their mottos!

I NEVER comment on blogs or anything, but this was a great post. Thank you so much for this refreshing and honest perspective. I love the two new words I picked up “perspectacles” and “Tyranny of Trend”. And you left out counterspace…you have an amazing amount of counter space that we tiny apartment dwellers would love to have. Thank you and keep dancing!

Thankyou for speaking these truths in a world full of consumer lies. What a refreshing read and reminder of what truly matters:)

I love you. I needed this.

I am just very happy to see that you shop at Costco!!!!!!

Yay! Thank you for being appreciative of the things we take for granted SO often! I get a little heartbroken when I hear mama’s complaining about having to do dishes or laundry. If we could all take a page from your book we would see that the dishes mean our kids were fed and laundry to do means we have clothes to wear <3

I so agree with you and your view of your kitchen. My kitchen/house is always cluttered with projects and works in progress. It has changed as my children grew up. Now it is projects of my gr. children. When someone comes to visit they just may have to clear a chair before they sit. One thing I have noticed, no one ever has left when offered a snack or cup of coffee or tea and they tend to linger in my kitchen. Children seem to love my kitchen too and seem to automatically know where the cookie jar is or the fruit bowl. I like my kitchen. It shouts love and warmth just like yours.

I absolutely love what you wrote! It’s almost as if you read my mind and wrote how I try to look at things every day!!! It is very easy to get distracted once ok n a while by the latest “this” or the new must have “that”. And although I may dwell on it for a day or two, it doesn’t take a huge slap in the face to bring me back to reality and what I find important. I wish more people wore their perspectacles (great word, by the way) more often!

funny because what I saw in every picture was LOVE!

I Love this! Count your blessings, yes!

Best blog post I’ve ever read. Thank you! I’m saving it for those moments I look around my house and feel frustrated that it’s not as new, big, or updated as others. What a great reminder to be thankful of all we have and that it’s not “stuff” that really matters.

Thank you so much for this. I grew up in a household where clutter was unheard of. I work very hard everyday to de-clutter with the fear I may get a visit from my grandmother (who raised me). I stress about this because what she says to me I take to heart and sometimes it does make me feel bad. I once asked my husband if I was a bad mom because of this (yeah I know weird) but that is how I felt after a surprise visit.
Once again thank you!

Absolutely life changing. God bless you and your beautiful perspective.

You are a legend. Inspiring.

This is just what I needed today! Thank you! My cluttered kitchen now looks beautiful to me

This is fantastic! I’ll be sharing wildly and embracing freedom from catalogues. Well done.

You are such a smart woman/mommy/wife! Good for you! We should all take a good look at our homes and what they really represent. Very inspiring <3

Reading your blog I have to laugh. My husband and I have bought a home in Florida . We are home to michigan to sell our house and part with our belongings . Not so easy for me cause I love my stuff. I have spent the last month setting aside and packing my most precious things. Things not people . I’m at odds with my children. We don’t see eye to eye about our move. In the end it is about children young and old and what they give to the mix. I d have to say the most important thing is my kids and my grand children not my things. Thank you