Years ago I told Hubby I wanted an iron bench for a window nook just outside of our dining room in our new house. He was so proud to show me that he had purchased one - come out and see. To my disappointment I saw - a swing. Not what I wanted, but he had gone to the effort and bought it, because I had asked him to. {Lesson learned: if you have something very specific you want, don't go sending someone else to find it for you. Do the work to find it yourself!} I put a couple of pretty toss pillows on it, surrounded it with a couple of large potted plants, and called it done.
That swing stayed put for several years. It was pretty in it's little spot by the house. It was a pain in the patoot to move, and the kids had to be told several times not to try to "swing" in it it like you do on the ones at the playground. But we didn't sit in it much anyway. That is, until I asked him to take it up to Highlands. He perched it on the top of the hill, looking out towards the lake, just in front of a firepit, and we sit in it every time we visit.
And I think, "maybe this is exactly what I wanted, after all".
