New House

I love my house. It smells good, its clean, its big. I am so happy to be here. I will say it now and say it again, I am so thankful for our first home, but I was so ready to leave. So ready. I am a home body. I like to be home, but I didn't really like to be stuck in our other house all day. It was smaller and heated up like an oven in the summer. It was also older, so even though I would clean and clean, the years of previous renters wear on the house had taken its toll, and it was hard to make it feel clean.

We have been in this out just over a month, and it already feels more like home than our other house ever did. I am still really enthusiastic about keeping it tidy. We didn't pull out all of the toys either and the ones that we did leave out mostly stay up stairs and out of site. I love our neighborhood, it so clean and there is a park about a 100 yard from our house. I am just so happy and thankful to be hear. I know that the Lord's hand is in all things, and I am so thankful this is where we ended up.

One of my favorite things about being here is that I get to decorate a new house. I had stopped having any desire to do anything to our old house because I knew that our time there was limited, and I didn't want to spend money on it. Aaron was so nice to let me buy a few bigger items to help make this house a little more homey. I still have a long way to go for what I want to do, but I am excited to have a hobby again.

The main things I wanted were curtains, and thanks to Target now I have cute ones. However, I wanted long ones, and thought I had measured correctly, but I didn't, of course. So, I had to add a stripe at the bottom to make them the length I needed them to be. I did not want to do that. I tried two panels and they looked bad...really bad. So my wonderful sister Heidi did them for me. I am still super grateful she did that. She also helped me figure out how and where to put things up on the walls. It was fun to shop and decorate, I am saving my money for round two.