Paint Chips

This is the color I'm going to paint my new living room. This isn't a picture of my living room, just the color. My new living room has wainscoting and a fireplace, but it also has acoustical tile on the ceiling. It's our first house, we had to take the good with a little bit of bad. We officially close today and get the keys in the next day or two. I am nervous and scared and devastated all at the same time. We bought all of the paint yesterday. We were only at Home Depot for about 45 minutes. That's too fast to spend almost $500 dollars. I haven't written on the blog in so long, but I'm having a reach out and touch someone kind of morning. I found a pile of greeting cards Mom had given me over the years. They were in with my crafts because I liked the pictures. That's the devastated part. I could hardly look at her handwriting. I had to squint while I read. I found these cards in the midst of packing. Every one of them felt like a good bye. Every one has a different meaning now. There was a page from Sendak's In the Night Kitchen when the boy is flying a plane made out of dough, and all she'd written inside was "I wish this was me, flying to see you. Love, Mom."