My dream kitchen and where is my contentment......

Here it was....

Open concept.  I needed a farmhouse sink, large island where the kids could do schoolwork.  I especially needed that pot filler spout above the stove, because a friend had one and I got it into my head that it was absolutely necessary in my dream kitchen.  This kitchen is beautiful and the woman or man or family that cooks in it is blessed and I am sure making many memories. 

The thing is, this is my kitchen......

No farmhouse sink.  No spout over the stove.  No complete open concept.  But.....I have grown to love it.   And I loved my previous kitchen too.  A little galley style, which is by far, the most efficiently set up kitchen in the world.  So unless you are trying to get your steps in for the day, design your kitchen around a galley.  There is good reason the military uses this to cook for a camp or a huge ship full of personnel.  I digress, back to my kitchen. 

If you notice I have no fancy lighting, there is prep and leftover stuff on the counters.  I had to grow into love.  You see we all love HGTV and Fixer Upper and they are fun to watch and are not bad, but I think as women we start to slowly poison ourselves with discontentment.  Every show can have us looking at our spaces as more shabby and uglier than they were the 30 minutes before the show. 

And it can be any space really.  I might decide I need a wrought iron bed and $600 a piece nightstands and pricey tile in my shower in the master suite.  (And we all secretly know that tile can be a pain to keep from mold and mildew!)

This is a call ladies....love your spaces.  Improve them as you will, or as funds allow but love what they are. 

I love that my kitchen is a hub of activity all day as me, Tommy and the children come in and out for nourishment and refreshment.  It becomes a late night chat area and often a coffee shop for Tommy and I.  I have found things along the way, to make it personal and brighten it up but I'm falling more and more in love with it because it frames memories.  Love your spaces.....make them yours, but don't lose your contentment over something that is not possible now. 

I can't take my pot filler spout to heaven so let me be blessed by what I have now.  I love HGTV and all the ideas it has for making a space cozy and homey.  But, ration your time spent in it.  Make sure that you are not sneering at your cozy and homey home because it doesn't have subway tile in the master bath....(yes, that's another one!) 

But godliness with contentment is great gain.  For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.  1 Timothy 6:6-7