Unconditional Love

Although I love being in my daughter’s Happy Place it sure is good to just sit in my HOME. I love my HOME and this little house makes me happy. It’s not the best house, it’s not flashy, it’s small and I don’t care it’s my Happy Place!

When we decided to just give up the big house and downsize, it was not an easy decision to make. Well, it was for me but not for Joe. He loved the old house, he was the one who wanted it, he didn’t really want to leave. The cards were dealt and we needed to move. When we heard about this house we went to look at it, I was really skeptical about it at first. It needed a lot of work, it was in rough shape and we weren’t sure it would be a good fit for us.

We looked around at other fixer uppers and we kept coming back to this house. We went back to it and looked inside once again. We started to imagine what we could do to it and as the images started to fill our minds we knew it was the one. It had potential to look like the lake house I’ve always dreamed about living in. So the work began and it is still in progress. It’s perfect for Joe and I, and I can’t wait to finish it.

When we moved into the old house for the first time I hated it, I didn’t want to live there, I never felt like it was our home. No matter how hard I tried to like it, it was never a happy place for me. After working hard for months to bring the new house up to code it was finally ready enough for us to move in and I was excited. I felt at HOME here and I was HAPPY, I can’t believe this little house has brought so much joy to my heart.

Love does grow best in small houses like this, we have become closer and more in love than ever before. We have close friends just down the street and some pretty awesome neighbors all around us. We were meant to live here and I wouldn’t have it any other way. When you turn a house into a HOME and it makes you HAPPY don’t let anyone steal that joy no matter what.