We are in our new house, all the boxes are empty, the girls are signed up for summer activities, and Brandon is back to work. We already love where we live. I still can't stop looking around at all the great detail that was put into the construction of this home. There's enough room to run and play, but it's not so overwhelming to maintain. It seems like we live in the middle of nowhere, but just a few miles down the road in any direction you can find shops and restaurants galore. We are looking forward to trying them all and discovering our new favorite places. We take walks around the neighborhood and meet all the friendly neighbors that seem so eager to hear about us and what brought us to the area. All the updates we did before we move into the house are complete and we can just enjoy life in Weddington.
I can already picture the girls going off to school on the bus that stops on the corner, family gathered in the kitchen for holidays, the girls walking down the front steps for the prom, their wedding showers in the backyard while the azaleas are in full bloom, and Brandon and I sipping tea under the gazebo on the back deck while we grow old. I hope this is the place we will be forever.
Over the weekend some old friends from Cary invited our family to the beach for the weekend. We had a great time letting the girls play in the sand, eating way too much, and doing a little shopping. It was a great way to spend the weekend after all the chaos that we have been through the last few weeks. On the way back, when we got about 30 minutes from the house we asked the girls if they were happy about being home. Summer asked which home we were going to. The poor girl has been dragged back and forth from Apex, back and forth from Lake Wylie to Weddington, and then to the beach. She had absolutely no idea what to expect when we told her we were going "home".
Rather than get too far ahead of myself looking to the future of this home we need to live in it. Read books while snuggled on the couch, play mermaids in the bathtub, make cookies, and run through the sprinklers. Time to do one of those things now!
