Sunday, March 14, 2010

I Want...I Want...I Want...

I went to the Parade of Homes today. Why, you ask. Not quite so certain myself. Every year I tell myself not to go...I get a case of the gimmees. Every house I see makes me feel inferior...even though I truly love my home. I live in a historical district, enchanting with many beautiful old estate homes. But...mine isn't one of them. Mine is only 90 years old...not old enough to be considered historic but definitely old enough to cause me pains and financials woes due to the amount of fixing and updating it requires.

Our home is a family home...it's been in my husbands family for 4 generations (his grandparents built it, his mother was raised in it, we now live in it and our children or grandchildren will hopefully want it to be their historic gem). But for now...it simply leaves me wanting for me. I'm blaming it all on the Parade of Homes and HGTV. If I couldn't get inside all these beautiful homes, I would be satisfied with the gem that I currently have. I think it's simply the Martha Stewart in me...on the quest for a showcase home (very contridictory to my personality as I'm a pretty minimalistic person). So...here's to another year of wanting, another year of not being satisfied with what I already have been blessed with. Greed, quite frankly, sucks.

(PS: In my quest to find a silver lining in all this...these homes give me an opportunity to use my photography skills and capture their beautify so the greed can last even a little longer.)