Practical, What Did You Say?

Begin to paint or decorate a room in your house, and let the "Mother Tuckers" fly.
Bill and I have been married, I think, almost 32 years? Longer then I lived with my family, or lived in Jacksonville. Crazy long, and we are complete opposites!!! Laughter is the glue that keeps us afloat, and a good tablespoon of love thrown in.
While watching our kids paint the den this weekend, I requested my fill of Starbucks coffee, in case they needed me to hover and give directions!!! Bill tried to give me the "eye", which he has never perfected, saying," You know coffee puts you to sleep!" "Is that a problem?" Hmmmmm...whispered muh?? When in his dry, Bob Newhart way, " You are Special!"
"I KNOW YOU MEAN SPECIAL LIKE MOVIE STAR SPECIAL, RIGHT!!!" replied the ghetto Barbie Bonnie!!!
We laughed, we always laugh. OF COURSE, I had my coffee and lots of it, and went to sleep, the den looks great. Then came decorating the mantle, with books, many old books, turned in all directions. Stacked high, like an old used bookstore. Bill has never had an opinion about design, but this day he said, " Why do you have the spines of the books facing the back, its not practical?" "DO you even know me?, hubby of many years?" "PRACTICAL is you, I'm not even near the box of practical. Look at the artistic flow of the books, their ragged edges, the stories they hold." We laugh.