Last Week we got to go to our State's capital and this is me as we were waiting to tour the original Governor's mansion. What was funny to me was that the first few governors did not live there as they were wealthy enough to buy their own!

As I was walking through the house which I have no pictures of the inside, i was amazed at the beautiful work work, the glass, the carvings on the furniture and walls. They took leather in one room and covered the walls with it and it was painted green with decorative nails in squares, which does not sound pretty at all, but it was beautiful!!! They also had stretched fabric on the walls in one room where it looked like wallpaper.

But the most amazing was stepping into the kitchen! It was a tiny room, maybe 10x 10 feet with a wood cookstove in the corner, a one basin sink mounted on the wall with no counters around it, a small island/drop leaf table in the center of the room and a buffet with flour etc in it. There was also a butlers pantry where food was stored and dishes. That was it! They had to prepare meals to serve the governors and higher ups in a room we would barely feel like was suited for a shack!! It made me realize how blessed I am and how spoiled we can be too. Not that it is wrong to have a nice kitchen, I actually think they had things turned around a bit with a fancy parlour and shack kitchen!! But I think sometimes too we (or at least I do) look around our house and think of how much nicer someone else has it or if we did this it would be better, and instead of taking the time to be thankful. I came home and was thankful for my tile counters that are hard to clean, because I have tile counters! I have hot running water (which they also did not have) and a fridge (they had an ice box) to keep my food cold.