If you follow us on Instagram, you may have seen that we recently re-finished a coffee table. What started as a “quick project”, took more steps and time than we anticipated (darn our perfectionist ways) and left us without a necessary component in our living space for several few weeks. (I never realized just how much coffee we actually set on a table that is named for that very purpose.) That table has played a role in our daily lives throughout our entire marriage (and even belonged to Mel’s aunt prior to that), so our intent was to freshen it up and yet retain the character of a piece of furniture that’s been lived on for years.
The scratches from Reece claiming leftover crumbs after a night of take-out, the impressions from that time Kel hammered something on the table when he probably shouldn’t have, and the hundreds of dings and dents that I’m sure I had a hand in creating… all those little imperfections that we fretted over at the time for ruining our perfectly good table, add value to a few boards and bring a smile to our face.
This little project has been a great reminder for us that “wear and tear” builds character. Whether it’s in our business, or in our marriage, we find that oftentimes it is those seasons of difficulty – when it may not be as easy as we’d hoped, or takes more time and effort than we feel like we have to give – that we truly learn and grow in ways we didn’t even know we needed.
Which by the way, happens to make for really good conversation over coffee.
Hugs,
Kel and Mel
