I Have a Dream...

So there's this dream that Bestie, Bestie Jr., and I share: a waterfront summer home.  This is a dream that has evolved over the last year or so, but the general idea is that someday, when we all have an actual home and broods of children, we will buy a fantastic summer home together (because in this dream, of course we have enough money to do this) and we will spend much of the summer as one big, happy family.  We haven't decided where this will be, but the places thrown out there are: somewhere on Lake Michigan (my vote), Maine, somewhere in New England, and North Carolina (by the water).  I'm not sure how Bestie and Bestie Jr.'s husbands feel about this, and I don't know how my husband will feel about it as I do not have a husband.  Nevertheless, we girls are dreamers, and we are excited at what our imaginations foresee.  It's more than just the idea of a summer home; it's the idea of creating a big family out of friendships, the hope of future fun memories, and the dream of always being near to one another.  So let me share this dream with you, because we all should have some sort of impossible dream for which we can hope and plan... so maybe this will inspire yours.

This may not be what the summer home looks like for Bestie or Bestie Jr., but in MY mind, this is what we'll have (I have collected these images randomly over time, so I don't know where I got them... so if you know the source, please enlighten me):

It will have a light, airy feel, like this.  There will be lots of fresh whiteness with pops of color.  We will dry the linens on the line and let them get bleached by the sun, and we will leave the windows open so the breezes can blow the curtains.

And we will have a gigantic dining room table at which all of us will sit, like this.  We will have fantastic grilled meals (mostly because one of us is a chef *cough-Bestie Jr.'s husband-cough*) and pass around the food and have random conversations and laughing fits.  "These mashed potatoes are so creamy!"

There will be many porch-like lounging/eating areas, as we will enjoy looking out onto the water.  I anticipate lots of great conversations here.

The kitchen will look like one of these or a combination of the two.  This is where the culinary magic will happen.  It will be much messier.

Of course there will be a breakfast nook, where sleepy heads will enjoy their rise-and-shine.

And the living area would be something like this, only full of people and probably messy.

There would be three separate wings of master suites for the three sets of parents, and maybe the rooms would look something like these.  They would all have a fantastic view of the water, and maybe even a door onto the wonderful aforementioned porch.

There would be two sets of bunk rooms on the top floor; one for the boys and one for the girls.  They could get as rowdy as they want, as long as they keep it there.  That is where our children will become best friends.  And maybe we'd have a guest bunk room too, on the first floor.  In a screened-in porch, because why not?!

And at the very tippy-top, maybe there would be a cool room like this, and I may or may not do painting there.

There's your glimpse at one of my dreams: a waterfront summer home with my sisters and our families.  Someday, maybe it will be a dream come true.