This was originally posted on April 22, 2008. The day after we closed on our house.
It’s the little things but gosh darn it, if they don’t make me giggle with happiness.
1. I have a porch. I HAVE MY VERY OWN PORCH! Sorry I felt like that deserved to be repeating…loudly.
2. I have an awesome window for my Christmas tree. Is it wrong that I already have my outdoor Christmas decorations planned? I can’t help it because I now have a porch!
3. There is a ceiling fan in almost every room of my house.
4. My car gets to be parked in a garage. I bought that car brand new (they even pulled it off the showroom floor for me). It has never been parked in a garage. I also keep thinking about how amazing it will be to get groceries and not have to carry the bags up a flight of stairs.
5. The natural light in the house is about a hundred times better than my little dungeon of an apartment. The random pictures I take are going to be so much easier.
6. I can plant flowers, plants, trees…whatever I want. I really want a blooming tree, a lilac bush, a peony bush, flowers for the front. I did find out that we will have our own grapes!
We spent a lot of time at the house last night getting stuff cleaned out (although everything is remarkably clean). My dad moved an outlet for us (thanks again dad). My mom scrubbed a few doors and baseboards (something I probably never would have done). I’m thinking that the move on Saturday isn’t going to be too bad at all because we’ll probably have so much moved this week!
Edited – I uploaded a bunch of pictures to flickr and tried to make notes and descriptions.