a family heirloom

you guys i am so excited to write this post...

as you all know we just moved to a "new to us" home. some of the criteria from said home was that it have both a formal living / dining room and a family. that way the "men" (hubz and my boys) and the "lady" (me) could each have a room to do with what they wished. i will let you in on a little secret though, i have full control of the "man" room. ha!

my plan for the "lady" room was always a fusion of this and this.

about a month ago, i got an email from my dad explaining that his cousin has this old victorian settee that is a family heirloom and that it has been in the family since the late 1800's if none of his siblings are interested in it would you i?

Um hello!
of course i would be.

here's vicci in all of her glory. isn't she beautiful.

here's her history below. martha would be my great great great aunt. 

the best part of the whole thing is how excited my husband is to get to work on her. we are definitely doing this.

in the email from my dads cousin, she recalled the first time that she saw the piece in my great grandmothers attic it had black upholstery. so really i am just returning vicci to her glory days. i cant wait to show you all the final product. 

if this settee was your what would you do? i always love other people ideas and perspective. 

xxO

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5 things. 4.13

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1. we are scheduled to close escrow on friday. lord willing. i am so excited i can hardly contain myself.

2. i have been doing a lot of reflecting lately. last night i had a revelation. all these years i have been a little upset that my husbands job has required him to work night and weekends. when really i should be thankful for the special time that i have had with my boys. special time that will always be near and dear to my heart. the three musketeers. but don't tell them that's how i think of us. they already find me too silly.

3. i have had so much fun the last month or so day dreaming about our "new" home. i want to get white slip covers so bad i can taste it. i love the above room. even if it'a a grainy photo. when i showed this little bit of inspiration to my husband the other day he said, "i love the contrast of the white and turquoise." makes my heart want to explode.

4. my mom pointed out something to me this week, also involving my husband. she said, "i love the way he values your opinion and lets you "fight" with him." my mom had been in an abusive relationship for 15.5 years, she got out about a year and a half ago. so thing she notices about my relationship with my husband that maybe i take for granted mean so much to me.

5. the orthodox church is more than half way through lent now. it feels weird that easter is so much later than the western easter. but even still i can't wait to celebrate the pascha.

he bought me shoes

my husband is a CrossFitter

so i'm sure you can imagine his disappointment  

when i make every single excuse i can not to workout.
(seriously girls he pouts)

i've been in a workout funk for well over a year.
not good

my latest excuse to not work out is that my tennis shoes are old and 

have no more cushion or support.

well yesterday he called my bluff...

while i was visiting my grandma he text me and asked what size shoe i wear?
he doesn't know this? ha!

i replied, too wrapped up with my grandma to really think about it.

i did secretly hope he was ordering me a new pair of toms 

because you see i need them in every color.

he didn't.
he bought me these.

isn't he sweet?!?

he took my excuses away, and i sort of really want to work out
now that i can work out in style. :)

doesn't he have good taste?

so today 

i guess i'll let him show me a WOD

i.e. workout of the day 

speaking of WOD's

the names are hilarious.

the dirty thirty

the fithy fifty

the girls
you should google WOD's it's great!

i just can't take it serious.
due to the names

my friend called me last week and asked me to go to a CrossFit session.

i made excuses, and why can't i escape this madness?!

but this is a new week and thanks to these cute shoes

courtesy my super HOT hubby i think i'll give this thing a shot,

and because i know his beautiful heart... he's concerned for my health. 

Ephesians 5:22-33

22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, 30 because we are members of his body.31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. 33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.