212. Taylor Home!

Yea! After two weeks of being gone Taylor is finally home again. We spent all day Saturday together. In the morning we were back at Lowe's for another Build and Grow workshop.

And then we fell into the trap Lowe's set for us. Last time we were there we were discussing how great it was that the projects are free and how we are sure they lure some parents into the store and they spend a lot of money. We congratulated ourselves on walking away from a light fixture I have been looking at since the summer. Unfortunately, I couldn't walk away again. This is why...

This is an old picture as evidenced by the high chair at the table, but this is our old light fixture. It is ugly and I have hated it for 4 1/2 years.

This is my new light fixture. It is beautiful and I have loved it for 4 days. It makes my thankful list.

213. New beauty in my home

It goes great with the new dishes Taylor brought me home from Waco. Nothing makes up for the absence of your husband like new dishes.

214. A thoughtful husband

215. Taylor cooking dinner

216. A picnic in the living room

217. Kids running through the house on a Sunday morning

218. Sophie's journal revealing her heart

219. Sophie knowing God's Word

220. A Baptist preacher's kid loving to dance as a form of worship

My silly husband took the old light fixture and set it out in the garage to be sold at a future garage sale. I couldn't let it go to waste, though. Sophie and I had plans.

So with some spray paint I found in the garage and $15 spent at Hobby Lobby, I did this.

I hot glued sequins on the brass spheres

221. A thank you note and a kiss from Sophie

222. Transforming something old into something new

223. A quiet house

224. Everyone together under one roof

225. My job

226. My little boy's tears of frustration

227. Eating lunch out of my new bowl

228. Jeans right out of the dryer

229. Sophie's red socks

230. Coupons