(IM)Perfectly Beautiful

A fun girl is doing a fun thing on her blog today. Actually, she did it yesterday, but because I'm so imperfect, I'm a day late in joining the fun. She asked us to post photos of exactly how imperfect our houses can look, just to prove that we are all keeping it real on a day to day basis. I am profoundly overqualified when it comes to imperfections.


Oh, the choices. A photo of any single room in my house today would be an ample candidate for this particular post! Here goes...


It is absolutely necessary for me, at any given moment, to have clean kitchen counters. The rest of the house can be (and usually is) piled with clutter, but if I can relocate the piles off the kitchen counters to any available floor, shelf, or closet space I can usually fool myself into feeling like the house is "tidy". Uh, not today.


Second to my dire need for counter orderliness is an entryway that you can, well, enter. The footwear fashion is on permanent display. Everyday. See the shoe basket?? It's that empty thing there in the corner. Even the cat looks perturbed. And we were apparently in some pressing rush to get the baby out of her chair last night. I'm thinking about making "barefoot" part of our family dress code.


So, there it is. I enjoyed visiting other blogs to see their imperfections. I think the resounding theme for those of us who participated was that it is the imperfections that prove we live here, loving together and making memories, and those are the things that make an imperfect house a beautiful home!!