Dreaming is Free.

I love my job to pieces...but sometimes I get on these kicks where I spend quite a few weekend hours just poring over house decorating blogs and dreaming of a full-time job of home improvement and antique restoration.

I love...and I mean LOVE...house decorating/renovation. Because I don't have any type of budget for this and I'm a renter, I guess you could say I live vicariously through bloggers/HGTV stars who do this for a living. I can't imagine how wonderful it would be to own a little cottage where I had the finances to buy floral pillows and white down comforters and paint and cover everything in reclaimed wood. Mmm. I get excited just thinking about it.

One of my dreams/life goals is to get married, have a ridiculous number of sweet babies and buy an 0ld beat-up house that we can love and make our own. I know that is a little silly but I'm serious! I would rather buy an old house and renovate it than build a completely new one.

I think my love for reclaimed/vintage things probably stems from the fact that I am extremely sentimental. I get giddy when I think about an unused piece of wood or furniture being given new life and turned into something lovely and cherished. Stories where an old house is purchased and restored makes me want to go out and hug the owners. I just adore that! Imagine all of the memories in those walls...the love shared there...the family Thanksgivings and Birthday parties. I think it's just lovely to think that your family could put down roots and build memories alongside those.

I dream of a house with a huge front porch for drinking lemonade and laughing...a house that's clean but comfortable. Where no one is scared to put a drink down without a coaster. A house that is filled to the brim with cookies and family and finger paintings hanging on the walls. A kitchen and dining room where we worry more about spending time together than gourmet meals and calorie counting...and a backyard where my kids can run through the sheets drying on the clothesline.

One of these days...

Until then, I'm happy to have my little blue rent house. I know I'm extremely blessed and there will probably be days down the road that will make me long for these days...when I can take a bubble bath or read a book pretty much anytime I want. There are definitely some positives in the right now....but a girl can dream right? :)