The Perfect Place

Last year I added some pictures to our bedroom that would make it a great place to sleep and that could be like a "happy place."   I think my "happy place" is the beach.

 I just love going to the beach with Finn.  It is such a simple, lovely time.  I got this photo put on canvas because it is sort of where I would like to spend all my days.  The beach, the sand, a cool breeze, and a 2 year old Finn.  That was such a good memory and I love having it on the wall...

When we moved into our house we did the bathrooms in city themes.  The upstairs is New York.Now I will add our family photos to the old Target prints.  The downstairs is Paris.   Tosh bought me this painting in Paris an carefully brought it back home to me...

He also got all the postcards for me...

 One day I hope to add our family photos from the three of us being in Paris.  One day.

Once we added on and got an extra bedroom, we weren't sure what city theme to use.  We loved Seattle but already had our photos from there in the kitchen.   We considered London (although I've not been) but never settled on anything. The walls stayed bare for three years. Then after going to D.C. I knew I wanted to take that wonderful place and make it the theme for the bathroom.

^I ordered this 2 dollar poster of the old school metro stops.

 ^Finn being all presidential at the wax museum Oval Office.

 ^ We got these photos from an artist at Easter Market and then framed in a cheap frame from Michael's.

^These were prints that Finn took with his little camera.

 ^and then family photos.

I've wondered a lot lately...Where is the perfect place?   I really love a big city.  I like the pace.  Somehow big city living feels so simple.  Less stuff, less space, more time, more fun, more places to go. A tiny shoe box that  you can barely fit a weeks worth of clothes, a couple of toys, and a handful of personal stuff, yet it is so freeing.  The outside is your backyard. No car is more of a liberation than a burden. Your walking to get to and from is actually all part of the journey and all part of the fun.

But then you have somewhere like here where you can have space, you can have three bathrooms, you can have a yard, you can have less noise.  Your child can be loud and have a room the size of a NYC apartment just crammed full of toys. It comes with less options of entertainment, more time getting to and from, more driving.  More space, more cleaning, more stuff.   Pros and Cons.

And then there is the beach.  It seems like perhaps a combination of the three would be just perfect.

If Amarillo, Coronado Island, D.C., and New York City had a baby......