Ownership

We have lived in our house for six months now. It's been such a blessing, but the reality of the responsbility that comes with it has already hit us hard. Going on last minute trips takes a bit more planning now...will the grass need to be mowed or the flowers watered? What about picking up the mail? There is also the home ownership part, if it breaks you fix it or pay to fix it (which we quickly realized is not cheap when the a/c wouldn't start). There's no longer someone else to pass that responsibility on to - it's all on us. Oh yeah (can you pick up on the sarcasm?)

There are also many wonderful things though about owning a house. I've loved the feeling of being connected to something more permanent, something that will hopefully be a part of our lives for some time. Getting to know our neighbors has also been a fun adventure. Across the street are Matt and Jessica and their four beautiful daughter. The middle girl, who is 3 calls me Beba. She loves yelling for me to come over and watch her throw balls, stomp on bugs, and throw rocks (I think her dad is training her to be the boy he doesn't have lol)! To the north of us our the wonderful Hal and Lana. They have modeled what it looks like to be a good neighbor from day one, whether it's taking our trash can to the curb for us, or letting our dog out during the days I'm gone for 12 hours. I could go on and on about the amazing people that have living around us, but I don't want to bore you.

We've tackled a few painting projects in the house (the lime green room and the bubble gum pink room were the priorities), and now I'm starting to work on the living room. There is what I'm sure someone thought to be a lovely country border that trails along the top of the wall. I've spent maybe 2 1/2 hours so far working on the border, and maybe have 8 feet of border removed. What a pain! It's coming off in three horrible layers. First there's the vinyl layer that only comes off in two inch sections. Next is the paper layer that thankfully is fairly easy to remove. And lastly there's this awful sticky layer(must be the glue) that I spend most of the time working on. I told Kent yesterday that we will never EVER use borders, if even just to save someone else the trouble of removing it. He made a joke, as only Kent does and says that I'm on "border" patrol haha.

So there's a peek at one dimension of our lives now. Now that we've been blessed with a house, I hope that we can bless others through it. So please come visit us! We love to have visitors!