About once an hour I get this urge to type my thoughts, share an idea or blurt some crazy advice out to the world.  I clamp my mouth shut, take a mental photo and wait for the urge to pass - definitely not wanting to be THAT person on facebook. Who would want to hear what I have to say?  Who cares?

And then recently I was visiting with a friend and she said something that stuck with me.  ”The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.”  I sat there – completely awestruck (and incidentally unaware that she had quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson to me) and I just started to laugh.  I am truly a bundle of beginnings.  Nonstop change is what my life’s theme has been.  I like my theme – I like changing with the times and the trends and my whims.  It’s who I am and after 37 years on this Earth, I think it’s probably time that I embraced that fantastic – yet sometimes completely irritating – part of myself.

Anyone who knows me knows that nothing is stagnant for long in my life.  My husband has moved so many times with his career that I am 37 years old and have owned SIX homes.  I’ve renovated all of them – each so different and a testament to who I was at that time in my life.  It’s interesting to see the balance of my psyche shift from a newly married girl to a confident woman – and the shift is literally visible through my home renovations and images of my past.

It's taken a long time, but I’ve decided that someone out there might like to hear what I have to say, might get excited by the things I’m doing in my life and in my home, and someone – somewhere – might be inspired to embrace the changes life throws at us.  I truly believe that when the universe throws a giant gray bucket of suck at you, it's an opportunity to renovate - your heart, your home, or your dreams.

This is me. Renovating my dreams and my future and my home. One bucket of suck at a time.

 ~Jessica