Unusual Memorial Wkend

I have had an amazing weekend this weekend.  I have spent it with my best friend.  We took 2 things we found in a thrift store and re-decorated my whole house.  It sounds amazing, but as I sit here . . . it looks amazing. 

Together we took these two things from the thrift store and started decorating.  We took things down, we put things up, we were on a design frenzy.  We put things in different places, we pulled color from one level to another.  Two nights ago, I was visited by Tim in my dreams.  There have only been a few dreams of him since he passed, but they have all had great meaning to me and there has been no doubt of the message.  The message I got was Tim saying to me "Take down the pictures of me when I was sick".  I remember even his voice saying it to me, and saying again . . . "no, really, please promise me you'll take down the pictures of me when I was sick".  I was sitting having coffee this morning with Jan, and I suddenly remembered the dream and I knew he had a message and I knew it was really clear, but I couldn't remember the message.  We put it aside, figuring that Tim would tell me again.  I walked down the hall a little while later and I heard it again, I yelled at Jan "I know what it is!!!!!"  He wants me to take down the pictures of when he was really sick."  

That's when the frenzy began.  It's amazing how you can change two things in your room and all of the sudden a new room emerges that is your own and the picture in your mind somehow comes to life in front of you?  There will be a couple of items purchased, but it will bring the whole flow of the house into harmony.  It will be my style . . . it's mostly things I already had put into different spaces and in different groupings to make them look new again.  It's me, and I love how I will feel in it.  The space where the picture of Tim when he was really sick was placed, will be re-placed by a beautiful Tree of Life metal wall art.  A symbol of him for all of us.  And this weekend 5-28 was a significant date now in my past, the date of our first date, that lead to our marriage date of 8-25.    

This was one day of this amazing weekend.  The day before we vowed that if the sun was shining we were going to enjoy it.  We sat outside in the sun with our drinks with our tunes from our MP3s playing loudly into the yard.  We actually ended up getting a slight burn...I know, that's really bad at our age, but damn, it felt GOOD.  We haven't seen enough sun and to just let it's warmth envelope your body, it puts me into like a trance state where it's like I can't move, but just drink it in.  Other than drinking vodka lemonades instead of soda, it was like we were 17 again, back in high school and laying out in the yard.  Only we're funner and oh so much smarter, for God's sake.

So this was my weekend, decorating my house with my personality, it was fabulous.  Tomorrow the only thing left is to do girly things.  There will be scrubs and polishes and moisturizers like you've never seen.  It will be another fabulous day.