Hi Friends!
How are you? I hope you are having a great week! We have some really exciting news coming soon so stay tuned to our blog and social media sites. Right now, I’m in the season of busy and I’m sure so many of you can relate to that. I wanted to encourage you all in this season of busy, whether that’s busy because of school, or the holidays, or in ministry, or in work, or whatever else; take the minutes, the hours of the day that aren’t busy and be so smart about them. Stop to take time to asses what you need most in this season or day. Do you need rest? Do you need family time? Do you need to take your kids and encourage them? Do you need a date night with your hubby? Well, schedule in time for that! I know that sounds counterproductive to a busy schedule, but it’s the only way to live a healthy life of balance. Our schedule reflects our priorities in life. Our schedule teaches our children (without words) what’s our priority is in life. Sometimes we have to say no to a good thing to be able to say yes to the best thing. In this season of insanity, I’m learning to schedule the priorities first and then fit the rest in. Time to start my day reading the Bible and prayer. Time with my husband either at home after the kids are in bed or on a date night. Family night once a week. Time to be faithful in church – both to be encouraged and to serve – is a priority. Time to work and do well with it. Time to be a good friend to some (probably not all I want to). Life is just too short to let things that aren’t really that important fill our days. Things like extracurricular activities or social media or TV can zap our time and leave us feeling empty and too busy and like a failure. I fail at this often friends, but I’m in this busy season and am really loving the word margin. Scheduling less. Leaving room to have time for spur of the moment lunches or extra work time that may come up or time to lay in bed with my son to talk to him about what’s on his mind instead of rushing downstairs to work. Let’s work harder at living with more margin, more calm, and purposeful planning in our days friends.
For this week’s makeover, I wanted to share a beautiful kitchen makeover in Mechanicville. Here’s the kitchen before:
We painted cabinets Simply White and the cabinets Chelsea Gray by Benjamin Moore. We also installed rough cut shiplap on the back of the island. We painted the shiplap Chelsea Gray first and Simply White second so both colors in the kitchen blend well together and it adds visual interest in the room. Everything else in this kitchen stayed the same so you can really see how JUST paint truly changed this space.
Here are the afters for you!
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Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)
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