Today I Became A Woman
Don’t we all that that one thing, that one item we could own or event that could take place in our lives that we think will make us a real honest-to-god grownup person?
For me, that item was a formal dining room set. Don’t ask me why. But I’ve been dying for a pretty place to hold my china since we bought this house almost five years ago. I guess because a china cabinet and a formal dining table aren’t necessities. You can easily live your life and entertain your friends around any old table since it’s the company that matters most anyway. And I’ve had my china stowed in my regular kitchen cabinets and it’s worked ok, even though I desperately needed that room for other things. It was serviceable but not how I wanted it.
Today, thanks to the furniture delivery men, it is how I want it. My dining room, begun back in 2003 with painting and crown molding and a chair rail and picture molding is now almost complete. The only thing really that would finish it off would be if I could ever get some flingin’ flangin’ window treatments in there besides the wood blinds.
For now, though, I’m happy. Except now I have to go rearrange my kitchen cabinets to take advantage of all my room! Whoop!
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Picture???
Whohooo! You’re a girl after my own heart.
I have a hutch AND a buffet and I feel so adult. ha. 
That’s how I was about my big girl bedroom set. I haven’t had an honest to god bedroom set since I was a kid. When I moved out on my own, everything was piece meal. I told myself I’d wait until I moved into my first house. That was the first thing we bought. Of course, I still don’t have a dining room set, but hell, we can all eat off of my new dresser.
Photos please!
& congrats on your woman-hood!
Your dining room sounds gorgeous! You post says it wonderfully, there are just some things that make you feel like a grown-up. As the kids grow older, we’ve been trying to use the dining room more often just for the family … for some reason we get a bit more facetime than if we’re just sitting in the kitchen.
Congrats, and yes, inquiring minds want to see