My son and I went to Lowe’s this morning to try again with the accent wall. The original color I wanted was called Open Seas. It was the color I was drawn to, plus I liked the name. But then I started looking at greens and went with the color called Contented. I was hoping that the name of the color would magically produce in me a contented state when we were done. But it was too light, too dull for my liking. That’s when we went back and tried to darken it to the Coastal Plain.

This time we chose the color Manitou Blue. I guess I sort of learned from my mistake, because after seeing the shade of the original Contented, I knew the Open Seas would likely not be bright enough. Manitou Blue was a shade darker, but not too dark. I told my son I thought it was pretty and he agreed that it was. He said he felt like it had more life to it and I felt the same way. We brought the paint home, hopeful it could work. We both loved the color as soon as we started painting.

So that wall is done now. That’s about all I did today as far as the rooms go. For as much as I’ve gotten rid of, we still have so much, and I haven’t even touched the actual downstairs storage area. I keep seeing it whenever I am down there switching laundry and then I wonder why I ever decided to keep any of it. I’ve always kept a china set that a seminary wife gave me after Josh and I helped them move. It was from her first marriage and didn’t end up fitting in their moving truck.

It was super nice, one of the nicest things I felt like we owned, so I always kept it. We never registered for dishes for our wedding. My mother-in-law gave me her old plates and bowls after she’d replaced hers when they redid their kitchen. When we moved from Hoyleton a friend gave me her set of white plates, bowls, saucers, and coffee mugs. I don’t know why we didn’t register for dishes. I guess I figured we didn’t need them. I’ve never really missed not having had new ones.

I’m starting to feel like I’ve been too much in my head with all this. Like it’s having that you’re starting to go back to your crazy ways kind of feel. I went to Target and Ross today to look for curtains. They didn’t have what I was looking for. I did find a couple of clothing items at each of those places. A dress, three shirts, and two pairs of clearance pants that I thought I could put in my collection I’ve been meaning to start of nicer clothes for when I’m supposed to look more put together.