RTR and The Youngest Offspring

It is absolutely amazing how we can be pulled into reality TV. My youngest daughter Brianne, has taken it upon herself to enlist the help of the HGTV show "Rooms That Rock" to assist us with what she believes to be the greatest flaw I have, my inability to decorate, match or even choose colors let alone come up with a whole complete room design! I don't agree that it is my greatest flaw but it's probably right up there! We have lived in our house for 6 years now and the only rooms that have been painted, updated or had any type of decorating done(except for furniture placement, I like to do this pretty regularly...another story for another time..) are the girls rooms and only becasue they chose the colors, design and then enlisted the help of their multi talented Grandma. I remember when we first bought the house and I expressed my concern for my lack of creative juices and my Mom told me "take your time, live here awhile before you hang pictures and such....get comfortable with the place and then it will come naturally...hmmmm....sadly not so much! Things have remained the same since our possession date. I have often wished that I had 1/8th the talent for creativness, making a home feel like a home as soon as you walk into it, ability that my Mom has! Her home has always been beautifully decorated for everyday and made extra special for the holidays...(Dad does his part as well by hanging pictures, Mom lets him feel like its all his idea and gently encourages agreement out of him in most arenas of home decor) This is why Mom and Dad lived in what my brother referred to as "Peter's Pink Palace of Passion" for many years...Mom spent great thought deciding on the colors that she could live with and shades of pink became it...I digress. Back to the Kid and her talent for appealing to the public to help her old Mom!

This wonderfully funny 14 year old makes the decision to find out how she too can become the next RTR's star and searches out the website to see if there is any information. There it is! A casting call for tapings coming up this June to August. She needs to send in a myriad of information to meet the initial qualifications and so off she goes...borrows the digital camera, tidy's the basement family room, start's snapping and downloading and lightening pictures and creating a masterpiece email that she hopes will put her in good stead with all the cast and crew of Rooms That Rock! Once created she sends the email off and politely blind copies me on it so that I too can join in the excitement of getting to VETO one element of the design if our basement get chosen...She so knows this is my FAVORITE part of the show! I love trying to guess if what I would veto is the same as the parents on that show...usually it is! It's usually the element that will cost more to fix once the decor may need to be changed, like basketball lines painted on the hardwood floor or the family fireplace painted white....All that said and done it truly has become a favorite pastime to sit with my teenager and marvel at the wonderful rooms that are created on the HGTV show "Rooms That Rock"!
I'll keep you posted if for some unexpected blast of fun and luck we get get our room chosen!
TTYL