Sometimes when you can’t control things in your life – you can at least buy expensive light fixtures. I don’t want to spill all the gory details, but being a mom – particularly a mom to a unique girl like mine – is not for sissies. So where can I get a little confidence, where can I go to feel like I am good at something? I can go to lighting store web sites and scroll through 157 pages of pendants. Then I can feel like I have really done something good when I find the perfect one that will be the icing on the cake of my impending kitchen remodel. And then I can feel even better (sort of) when I find it $100 dollars cheaper on an obscure web site. Try not to infer how expensive it was based on that discount – cringe. And now that I’ve got the perfect pendant I can move on to getting paint samples and thinking deeply about gray tone neutrals. And I can talk with my kind contractor. And I can gaze at linoleum floor samples. I may feel completely inept at being a mom some days but I sure can spend Brian’s money. That’s my job right? Now I have to go – I need to check the UPS shipping status of my new light fixture.
Here it is:

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