Love the Home You Have

Love the Home You Have: Simple Ways to…Embrace Your Style-Get Organized-Delight in Where You Are by Melissa Michaels                  Paperback Book: 213 pages       

I do like this book.    Honestly it is a little repetitive for the first few chapters, but, always a smile is involved even so as Melissa shares inner truths about her home decorating disasters, hiding under a table whem a neighbor stopped by so she wouldn’t have to open the door because her house was a wreck and her many horror stories of the homes she has lived in with before and after stories on her ups and downs of learning to love the home she had rather than pining for another one.    She tells tales of moving into a fixer upper, o.k.,  a broken down fixer upper that included rats in the walls that actually came out during a dinner gathering of friends she invited over.   Funny stories – the time she and her husband moved into the place with pink walls and brown carpeting that smelled like a dumpster, did I mention that her husband is a minister and they were sent out in the mission field to start a new church and that was the home they could afford.    Frightening stories (RATS!!!!!!),  a neighbor’s home down the street actually crumbled and caved in as they were late leaving for a speaking engagement out of town.   Humble and sweet stories about their family learning to love the home they were living in and the ways they made it more loveable.    An easy read and a pleasant one.   Also inspiring.    She gives so many good ideas on things to try and do and how to look with all of your senses at what you have and how to find inspiration everywhere for what you want things to become.   This book could be a Disney movie it is just that uplifting and full of goodness.   I am going to look for other titles by her.   Enjoyable book with good lessons to apply.