Just For Fun

First World Problems and Silly Frustrations

As I’m sure you know by now, I love to decorate. I like the environment around me to look and feel warm and welcoming and put-together. I’m pretty happy with how most of my house looks for the budget I was working with and the amount of time I’ve lived here, but there’s one room that drives me crazy. I seriously get annoyed every time I look at it or walk through it. I just don’t like the way it looks at all. I actually try to avoid lingering in there as a rule.

However, it’s summer time and summer time means more time at home and more time for me to nitpick. So, the other day I could avoid the room no longer and I just decided to start working on it. The problem with that was, I didn’t have anything new to work with and after moving the furniture around umpteen times…I ended up just sitting down frustrated and mad. I immediately texted the husband and told him I didn’t like the game room and I wanted to change it. Ha! Poor guy, he gets random texts from me much more often during the summer and he takes it like a champ. Of course he responded with the usual affirmation of my feelings and encouragement that it will get fixed as soon as possible.

Still annoyed, I went downstairs and started to sketch out a new floor plan and browse the internet for new furniture and ideas of how to transform that room. As I was doing all of this, I didn’t notice the kids had gone upstairs to that very room until I heard laughing and playing and all kinds of happiness drifting downstairs. The sound stopped me in my tracks. I grabbed my phone and sneakily climbed the stairs to snag a quick pic of what was going on in this abominable, useless, inefficient space I was so frustrated with. And this is what I saw…

These kids were having a blast! They were having a blast together! They were having a blast in this room I spent the last 2 hours whining and complaining about! Yeah. Not a good look for me. After the initial embarrassment I felt, I laughed at myself at the ridiculous frustration I was feeling about such a “first world problem”. I then thanked God that I have a space to be frustrated with at all and remembered a quote I saw on my beloved Pinterest that read, “Someone else is happy with less than what you have”. And there you have it. Lessons can be learned anywhere anytime and from anyone. I learned from my kids that day. It was a happy lesson.

I will however, redecorate that room but I will do it for fun and not because it just HAS to be done. And when I do, I will do a lovely little before and after blog about it on my decorating tab. So, you see…what started out badly, ended up turning into a growth moment for me as well as a new blog idea (or two)! Hooray!!