The Mirror of a Beautiful Sideboard Reflects Nature Indoors

Lately, I have been day dreaming about what else but my ultimate dream space. You know the very thing I created this category on my site for, to be able to talk about what would really make life grand. This go round, it all begins with the vision of a small garden house. Inside would be reserved for nothing other than entertaining. So, filled with an amazing dinning table, superbly comfortable matching chairs, a beautiful sideboard and an enormous mirror to catch the reflection of the gorgeous landscaping right outside the French doors.

Now, normally these pipedreams involve me being involved in every last detail, including construction and woodwork. But, I think in this one I will not build the sideboard, or handcraft the table and chairs as anyone who knows me would expect. Nope, like a mirage I would wish for it to appear one day out of thin air in all of its grandeur.

Maybe this change in dream has to do with being tested to my limits with my teenage son this summer on a number of projects we undertook together. While I would not trade the hours we spent together for anything, at this point I think we both could benefit from enjoying some downtime together. He has reached that stage where he is rather obstinate, and in my utopia there will be no conflict.

I have high hopes that over the course of the next school year he will either grow out of this tenacious stage, or even better revert back to that joyful stage I so desperately miss. Perhaps I am just fooling myself, and I was lucky to have been able to get him to this age without all the shenanigans I have heard about from fellow parents. If this going to be his disposition for very long, I think I will have to revamp my dream space yet again. This time, it might become a space for adults only.