Welcome to Our Home

Let me introduce our new residence!

So far this little house has been good to us and we're enjoying many of the things it has to offer.  We're living in the front section of the house, which is all of the 2-story part.  Our back door is to the left of that pine tree.  The one-story section to the right of the tree is an apartment that the owners are using for storage.

In this house we have a living room, dining room, kitchen, and t.i.n.y. laundry room on the first floor.  Upstairs we have 2 bedrooms, one bathroom, an office/storage room, and what I think is a closed-in porch that I'm using as a walk-in closet.

I find it funny that a Cozy Coupe and wagon on the front porch no longer bother me.

What we're loving:

*Lots of windows and natural light.

*Bedrooms upstairs-I don't feel like I have to tiptoe around at naptime.  If I wanted to cook, clean, etc. I could.

*A flat yard.

*A front porch.

*A lively neighborhood with younger families and kids.

*Dixie living down the street at Mimi and Vincent's so that he can have a concrete floor in his pen. Ned and Avery may disagree, but I don't miss his barking. Ned has not complained about having to go each night and take care of him since he usually sneaks in some fishing. Dixie has spent a great deal of time in the air conditioned basement and may never want to come home.

What we're learning to love:

*1 bathroom, upstairs, no storage, pedestal sink...and I'm sharing it with a boy.

*Being on a corner, fairly close to the roads, in a house where Felix has decided he must escape from.  There is also more traffic and people noise than we're used to.  Sammy lets no noise go unnoticed.

*A stackable washer and dryer, with a dryer that feels it needs to be run several times to get everything dry.

*A stove with the coil burners and the "catch" pans that I imagined will need to be cleaned.

*No driveway.

There are lots of other things we love, and a few more things that we don't really love so much.   We are so fortunate to be living here with landlords that our friends.  Sloping floors, having Felix's restroom and my computer in the same room, and the the things mentioned above are far outweighed by everything we're enjoying.  It has quickly become home, and Ned only seems to forget where we live when we leave church.  We've packed the house full, but we're busy filling it up further with wonderful memories.