One Landes Place

Well not really but I can't think of creative name for my post and I really do LOVE this place, in the worldly kind of way. I found this great new fabric store called Fabric and More. It's on the Southeast corner of FM 1960 and Kuykendahl in Houston (next to The Casa restaurant and where the Wherehouse Music used to be). I am a fabric collector, and some time sewer when I have the time. I love fabric, but mostly when it's on sale. I went today to browse around the new place and I was impressed. It is nothing fancy as far as stores go but the selection of decorator fabric is far better than anything on this side of town. I felt overwhelmed but strangely at peace with the surroundings of bolts of magnificent patterns. I did not buy anything but I did get many samples of some wonderful fabrics to make curtains with for Sarabeth's new playroom and the living room. What I would usually see at other fabric stores for around $20-30 a yard, I saw today for $6.99-serio...

I was sitting in the brides room throwing up, literally. I was so nervous that I asked my brother in law to run across the street to the store and bring me back a bottle of wine! I can just see Jake trying to sneak a bottle of Sutter Home into the Baptist Church. My nerves never calmed and I walked wide-eyed all the way down the aisle shivering in my shoes. I had no idea what I was doing. I can't say I would have done things any different. Being married to Matt the past 7 years hasn't exactly been what I thought I was signing up for, but I would sign up again-no questions. It's so crazy to think that even at 27, I had no clue what I was in for. It's easy to get so caught up in what the world perceives marriage to be. I bought into the fairy tale of love and overlooked the work part. It has been an adventure to say the least. I love to think about when Matt and were dating and how care free our lives were. I could have never imagined our lives today bac...