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Question for you...What is "homey" to you? Or...How would you describe "homey"? We live about 35 miles from our church. Yes, there are great churches that are closer to ours, but we've been at this one for nearly 12 years and just do not feel called to leave it at this time. Our girls have been there since they were 8 and 5 yeas old and, other then their dear and close homeschool friends around here, they also have good friends at church. Last month was our youngest dd's 17th b-day and all she wanted to do was invite some of her Sunday School/Youth Group friends to a day at a mall and then to come up to our rural area to our house to spend the night and then all go to church together the next day. (Another thing that it did was show these friends just how far we travel AT LEAST twice a week and it would help them to understand the sacrifice we make just to worship w/them.) All but one of the 4 girls (there's a city slicker in every crowd! lol) who came up LOVED the country drive and the little rural town we live in. One had never seen "a real live" red-tailed hawk until she came up, they LOVED the elk farm that's just a mile from our house, the coming dusk brought a deer out of the woods on the way home...and they liked our old 170+ year old home. Even though we are JUST inside our town limits, our house had once been a farm house when it was built. Of course, it's been added on to over the years...particularly the 2 baths, kitchen, electricity and FURNACE! Two of the girls are sisters and are from a family that has certainly had it's struggles...mostly financially (which we have gone through!). These sweet teens really enjoyed being treated to lunch at the mall and the country drive out to our house. While the girls did all their girlie things upstairs (our girls' bedrooms, bath and an old fashioned "loft" w/a small T.V. are upstairs ~~ it's Girl Domain!), and watched DVDs, giggled, polished nails and fixed each other's hair, I was downstairs making pizza, baking some quick sweet goodies, etc. After our pizza supper, the girls decided to watch a movie on our larger T.V. downstairs w/my dh and I. The 2 sisters came in to gab w/me for a few minutes while the others were picking the movie and they went on and on about how they loved our old house. One said, "it's the kind of house I would like to have someday. It's so homey!" Well, I have to tell you that THAT is the way to my heart! I LOVE homey! That is the highest compliment that anyone could ever pay me about my home. I have always tried to make my home homey. I have always wanted my home to be a place where people could come in and feel comfortable...I never wanted anyone to come it and wonder just where they could sit, to feel as if they couldn't touch anything. My goal has been to make my house A HOME for my family and a comfortable place for our extended family and our friends to visit and enjoy. What's homey to me? ~Antiques...especially if they are more on the primitive side and are usable. I collect tins ~ antique and reproduced ~ and actually use nearly all of them. I store noodles, pastas, candy, cookies. In the larger ones I store my bags of flour, suger, Sucanat, baking soda/powder, salt and other bulk items until I re-fill my canisters. Speaking of canisters...I like to use old, usually colored, canning jars as extra canisters. I like the way they look on my counters. ~I have many of my dear (maternal gr-ma) Bigmom's things. I don't know how I got them, but I'm SO eternally thankful that I have them. There is a memory attached to each one...kitchen utensils, pots/pans/cast iron skillet, end tables, what-not table, paintings, quilts...even her apron and I make tea everyday w/her tea kettle. ~Anything "country"! All of the above certainly fit into this category as well. And that could include baskets, painted and worn furniture, an old Whooseir Hutch, dry sink, pie cabnet, plates/platters/place settings, antique tins, old or hand made display shelves, roll-top desk, secretary hutch, old iron bed frame made up w/those home-made quilts, rag rugs. ~Enjoying an evening sitting out on the front porch. Where has that gone? No one seems to do that anymore. We also enjoy our back yard, but sitting on the swing on our front porch does a body good. ~The kitchen table. We live in fast and furious times. Especially w/a teen and a dd who is now a young lady in our house. Everyone has their own schedules, their own groups of friends and their own responsibilities. But the one place where we all seem to meet - as many nights a week as we possibly can - is at the kitchen table for supper. This is a place where we connect, catch up, laugh, share ideas, entertain guests...and pray. And, OF COURSE, we enjoy good times over good food! I'm sure once I sign off of here that I'll think of many more things...but I would really like to hear YOUR ideas. So please tell me...What is your idea of homey? What is homey to you? Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< |
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