Simple Pleasures

There's something infinitely rewarding to me about accomplishing a task.  It's why I make a To-Do list every day and put the same things on it--I know I have to do them, but finishing them and crossing them off gives me a sense of completion and accomplishment.  Watching the pile of boxes and the stack of pictures to hang in this new house has given me the same sense of completion.  Now that our faces are on the wall, it's starting to feel more like home and less like the vacation house at the end of a week's vacation. (You know where everything is, you're starting to settle in, it's homey, but not quite home.)  So yesterday when I was down in the boiler room packing away a renegade Christmas decoration, I spied my strands of heart-shaped lights.  I used to hand one strand in the boys room and one in the girls, but this year I decided to put them in a place where we could all  enjoy them.  We have a funky light fixture in the living room and it had drapes, which we aren't using, so there's this long bar and brackets that are hidden--perfect for draping lights!  I draped them above the couch last night and was just so pleased with myself.  It was just one of those simple pleasures that seem silly, but give us a warm feeling.  So now I feel like we're FINALLY moved in.  Just this little bit of decorating for Valentine's Day, a holiday I'm not really that into (probably because it's 4 days before the REALLY big celebration of the year) brightened my mood.  Another simple pleasure, that's REALLY simple, was that for some reason the living room is wired kind of funky.  The top outlets are normal, but all the bottom outlets are connected to this switch in the hallway.  The thinking was that you would plug your lamps into the bottom and then just have to flip the switch to turn them all on or off.  Great if you have lamps, not so great if you're using them for other things.  I got to plug my heart lights into the outlets that are connected to the switch, so I don't have to rummage around behind Jack's crate when I want to turn them on or off.  Simple Pleasure.  

Just a little twinkle from the outside too!