Maybe It's Not So Bad After All...

This

is what greets you when you walk in the front entry door to our home. There are 1,000 things I love about our house, but a few parts of our home are on that list we all have, you know the one: "Remodel As Soon As Monetarily Possible." And this chandelier, along with it's little brother, the dining room over-the-table light, are at the top of the list. To me they say, "Welcome to 1994!"

However, with the light that comes through our front window slowly changing angles as the sun morphs from a summer sun to a winter sun, we have found a new beauty in our little Conlin house ugly duckling. These days, when the light comes in through the high window above the door, right about noon, we get this...
and this...
And so many more. Our stair carpet becomes speckled with little rainbows everywhere. The boys get so excited every time they see the rainbows start to spread across the floor, "MOM! You have to see this! It is so beautiful!" And every day as the light changes, more and more appear. Today we even had one in the kitchen.

The hideous lighting fixture has shown us its inner beauty. It made me think, how often we judge before we really get to know. Ahhh, you know you are a homemaker when your household fixtures are reminding you of those important life lessons. So now, while this chandelier is still so very '94, maybe it has earned itself a reprieve, or at least a move down the list, and the horrible upstairs bathroom linoleum (faux black marble-yowza!) will beat it out the door. But who knows, just as in the case of our chandelier, my home's not-so-lovely traits have shown me to look for beauty in unlikely places.