Flowers have started to bloom in the front yard and the trees have grown in the back.
We know which rooms get the most sunlight during the hottest part of the day.
The furniture in the living room has been rearranged for better flow. Twice.
Our belongings fill every cupboard and closet.
In the middle of the night the sounds aren’t so foreign.
We’ve met our neighbors, mailman and trash collectors.
We’ve learned the quickest route to the freeway and have a favorite restaurant within walking distance.
We are settling in.
Our new house isn’t so new anymore.
We have been here since mid-November and at the time, it was all about getting ready for Thanksgiving and then rushing to put up Christmas decorations and host the holiday (which sounds way more dramatic than it was… It was just my in laws, sister and her boyfriend for a couple of days) and then we were eager to take down decorations and focus wait for the baby.
Lola arrived the end of January and our house suddenly felt more like a home.
My husband put her crib together last weekend and her room is slowly starting to come together.
But it was only once we started putting pictures up on the walls recently that we started to feel more comfortable, like this was home, the right purchase for our family and a place where we could stay a while and make beautiful memories.
It’s a lovely process, making a house a home and truly feeling like your house is home.
Or maybe I’m just starting to feel more complete than I have in a long while.
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What a wonderful, warm post. The settling into a new home is such a long process. But when it happens, it’s my favorite thing about moving. 🙂
It’s such a good feeling, to finally feel at home.
Your house is gorgeous and I love Lola’s room. It’s the perfect house for such a beautiful family. P.S. Does Charlie Pasta have his space, too?
What a cozy post! Can posts be cozy? Because this one totally is. I adore Lola’s room! That photo of you and Lucas on her wall is adorable! So glad everything has come together. This makes me smile big.
I love your sense of decoration – your style. You feel like you can breathe there.
I’m glad it’s becoming home.
This post is amazing–so full of love and warmth. Thank you for sharing the pictures of your daughter’s beautiful room.
I couldn’t love this post more! (I feel like I’ve said this before about another post-Oh well) I am so happy for you all!
Lola’s room looks wonderful! I hope that she is sleeping in it more often now. 🙂
XOXO
Reading this, I think I’m finally getting to the core of the reason why I’m loathe to visit my dad since his divorce from my mom (happened 14 years ago, when I was 22, so this was hardly “recent history,” but work with me here). My mom moved out, and my dad kept the house.
Since then, he treated it like a house, not a home.
And now it is a home — but it’s not the home that I grew up knowing. But it’s similar, so it feels “wrong.”
I’m very, very glad to read that the transition from house to home is well-underway 🙂
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