when people, especially young newlywed couples like us, go house shopping i'm sure they look for a lot in a house. can i host christmas here? are there enough bedrooms for a baby or two? what are the schools like? is this a decent commute to work for me?
but i don't quite think that far ahead. all i could really think about when we bought the house, was about having friends over. not in a real 'entertaining' type of way. i'm not the girl who's always the hostess. but rather creating a house where people felt at home, where we could have a friend or two or seven over and sit around our big dining room table. in my imagination i always imagined it would be cold outside - we would have the candles and maybe even the fireplace lit, but definitely the candles on the dining room table. we'd have wine, and we would sit and talk, whisper, laugh, tell stories, dream about the future and reminisce about the past around the table.
well, tonight that happened. one of my very bestest girlfriends came over and we shared a bottle of wine and some pizza. no, i didn't make the pizza, we ordered it. but after my girlfriend left, and i was throwing my hair into a ponytail and pouring water into my coffee pot when i realized that i had just experienced what i had always imagined my house being.
and our house isn't perfect. the bathroom is still torn up. we haven't painted over 'the artery' yet. the landscaping is nowhere near finished. our bedroom is freezing in the winter and a sauna in the summer. the granite in the kitchen is cracked where the previous owners didn't have it properly reinforced. but it's a home. and not only is it our home, but in a sense, it has become a home to those who come and spend time here. and i couldn't love it any more if i tried, because it's everything i always wanted :)
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