Hi! I’m Elizabeth and thank you for visiting. I write about my kids, my home, my grief, and creating a Purposeful Home. Welcome to Finding My Purpose!
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If you read my last post, then you know I started refinishing old furniture Summer 2016. Finding old pieces that were in decent condition that I could bring back to life became an addiction. We had more dressers, buffets, tables and nightstands in our garage than any one person should! After a couple of years, I slowed down the refinishing projects and liquidated MOST of my pieces
Ever feel like you needed saving? This is how ‘finding furniture’ saved me. When my son Benjamin died in 2016, I needed a hobby. I needed something to work on, something to do – even though I still had two of my almost-4-year-old triplets. I needed something (anything) to help combat this new feeling of despair, if just for a little while. I started rehabbing old furniture.
This is really only the third time I’m moved in my life. Moving away to college doesn’t count, and neither does that first time I moved from my mom’s into a friend’s spare bedroom. If a car or truck can hold everything you own, then you haven’t truly moved.
The Gerlachs are making a change. And it’s been in the works for a little while now.
For a couple of years, we’ve talked about moving to the east coast. Let’s just say … every time we take a vacation there or travel back home. It re-enters our conversation and we start looking at real estate. At vacation homes. At the potential of purchasing. Wanting to know what we can get for our $.
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