Matronly Dream

This week will be like we have moved AGAIN.  I think I broke my toe just before the pieces of furniture were to be lifted up onto the porch roof.  Ahead of time I had prayed that there be no injuries to my Husband and Daughter that would be tending to the large pieces being moved through the bedroom window and no damage to the items.

I hit my baby toe on the Ethan Allen middle sofa leg as I was walking through the Parlour I smacked it hard with a surge of pain radiating a loud ouch.  The SOFA didn't budge.  Limping to the Family room, I was thinking I must be accident prone.  This hurt.  How many times have I smacked my toe on this middle leg....I have lost count.  The sad thing is that I am still doing this as if it were the first time it ever happened.  The shame of it all. You'd think I would catch on...not catch it, but catch on.  

I grabbed the camera and started snapping pics of the busy activity that I have waited for.  Soon the Master Bedroom will be rearranged with the lovely pink camel back sofa creating a SUITE in the Master Suite of this old house.  This is a dream come true for me.  SWEET!  

The pink sofa is no longer in the Dining room.  Hurray and the mattress with box springs are now upstairs in the newly painted Guest room.  Another HURRAY.  We went ahead and relocated the Oak Wardrobe that was in the Family room and moved her into what I will call the Oak Bedroom.

When I was a young Momma, I placed this piece of furniture on lay away until she was paid off. This was to be the start of my ANTIQUE BEDROOM SET.  It just didn't happen.  The years passed by and the wardrobe would be used to hold dishes, canned goods, become a stereo cabinet, hold sweaters, and pictures.  She's been in Living rooms, Family rooms, Dining rooms, Bedrooms, Utility rooms, and Parlours.  She will once again be in a Bedroom and this time bedding will be on her shelves. 

My ANTIQUE BEDROOM SET is coming together!  A few years ago we bought a Oak Headboard with Foot board and a Princess Vanity.  All OAK.  All older pieces.  So...at the age of 60, I will now have a Guest room that holds OAK FURNITURE that I will call my ANTIQUE BEDROOM SET. With that said, I have a dream that came true.  A GOAL REACHED.  It took about 40 years. 

I can identify what 40 years in the wilderness was like.  40 years.  Wipe the sweat off of my brow. We celebrate 41 years of marriage on AUGUST 31.  This is an ANNIVERSARY present that my Husband and I are giving to one another.  Praise the LORD and THANK you.

SO often GOD gives us more good than we asked for.  A doubling happens.  I had wanted an antique bedroom set. Last AUTUMN, we inherited my Husband's Grandmother's Walnut ANTIQUE Bedroom Set.  TODAY, as I type this, we have two older Bedroom Suites upstairs.  That's sweet and I plan to admire them and use them.

Not a museum around here even if I am now MATRONLY.  I am matronly.  Gosh...how'd that happen?

One moment at a time.  

Dreaming,

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