Simple Sunday - Brown

~ so much to be thankful for today: my own dear dad, the wonderful father that my children have (who also happens to be my very favorite person in the whole world!), the first day of summer, the time spent visiting with the Shanks yesterday and admiring their new little Jason, etc...but today, I want to say thank you for brown...brown is a beautiful color, like when it appears in my sister's eyes, in the coat of a Jersey cow, or on the skin of my African-American friends that I used to envy because no one could tell when they were blushing but everyone could tell when I was! (which was often...this pale skin does nothing to hide embarrassment)...the brown that I am particularly thankful for today, however, is the brown paint that has been newly applied to the walls of our nursery...for all of our boys, we've used the same color scheme and decorations for our nursery: a safari theme with various shades of brown and tan and cream...Jeff, who is very fond of earth colors, picked our nursery pattern originally; and I, who had previously preferred blue & yellow for a nursery, immediately and uncharacteristically loved it...here in this home, we had never painted the nursery so the walls were white and the trim was wood, just like my parents left it...it was time to change that :)... (my parents, by the way, are amazingly good sports about all the ways we change the house that they planned and built and lived in for 33 years, and I'm continuously grateful for that!)...one day a few weeks ago, I took the comforter from our nursery set and went to the paint store to try to choose a shade of brown for the walls...I soon gave up...it was impossible to decide which was the right one because there were SO MANY shades of brown!...about a week later, Jeff went with me and didn't take long at all to select a color...I trusted his judgment, and we went with that shade...but to tell the truth, when I first saw it on the walls, I didn't like it...I decided though that I wouldn't make a fuss about it because, after all, Jeff let me choose the color for our bedroom so it was only fair that he choose the color for the nursery...I did admit to him that I didn't really like the color but could live with it; then I realized incredulously that Jeff really DID like the color, so of course, we wouldn't change it (I guess I was sort of hoping that he would say, "Yeah, it's too dark; we'd better get another color," but no such words came from his mouth!)...anyway, coming to the conclusion of the story, now that all the walls are painted and the trim is a beautiful crisp white, I have decided that I really do like the color Jeff chose!! :)...it's an interesting shade of brown, and it changes as the sun hits it in different ways...so now--finally--I'm very pleased with it and think that this brown is such a beautiful thing!...that's why I couldn't stop with just one picture today but had to include three :)