Have you seen the show My Parent's House on HGTV? I saw it once and had to laugh. Not because the show was funny, rather because I'm living in what used to be my parent's house.
I remember my first house 10 years ago. We bought it all excited to make it our home. We started small, then quickly found ourselves replacing windows (all 15 oversized of course), adding central air, and building closets. We were going to stay there for years to come....WRONG! We decided we needed to move closer to family after our first child arrived. At the time we thought we needed to move back to city life, as the small town we were in just didn't have all we were looking for. (Funny, I think the small town has more to offer now then I did then, but that's another entry).
Then we moved to our second house. Still young, and ok stupid! We once again did windows, siding, waterproofed, and of course painted and redecorated most of the rooms in the house. Again, we were going to stay there for years to come. Then the school district became an issue for us and with our oldest less then a year away from kindergarten we decided maybe we should think about moving. We looked for houses, and decided we couldn't afford to move. Smart choice at the time. Then we casually mentioned to my parents that should they ever decide to move we would maybe consider buying their house. I don't know that we ever really pictured ourselves in the house. It was more a statement based on the stress my parents were having taking care of the yard and the fact that the school district they lived in was better then the one we were living in.
Suddenly, Dad and Mom decided it was time for a change. We were shocked. We spent a lot of time praying that if we were suppose to move the right house would be available. We prayed that we would know for sure if we were suppose to make a change. Funny thing with prayer. When you truly seek God, you tend to find Him working in ways you would never imagine. We began to realize that the house they were offering was perfect for our needs. No more windows to replace, or siding to put on. Interior issues, well it was built in the late 60's, but other then that it would not really need much. We also found ourselves selling our house in 13 days! From what our Realtor tells us we were one of the last houses sold before the market slumped in our area.
So now here we are living in our house, which used to be My Parent's House http://www.hgtv.com . The show is actually about adult children who go back and change one room of their parents house. Current count for us is as of a few hours ago 8 rooms. We've been here almost 2 years. In that time we've taken huge, brown, barnyard like X's off of the family room walls and repainted and carpeted that whole area, updated the den from dark to bright making it my home office, added color to walls that were white more whole life, and tore down all of the wooden spindles that blocked off the living room and dining room space. Went from mint to sage in the kitchen. Redid the kids rooms into fun spaces designed specifically for them.
Now, we're in the midst of changing the playroom in to Hockeytown. The mauve/pink/peptobismal color has been replaced by the lovely white of primer and we couldn't resist opening up the red paint and trying it out on a few places on the walls. Soon the Detroit Red Wings memorabilia that got put in the garage from our last houses home office will find a home inside. It will be fun place for the kids to hang out, and will blend more with our color scheme then the old color. I even found the perfect place to hang the Everyday Display Board that Creative Memories came up with. It will be just right for changing out the photos from the games that we are hoping to attend in the future.
Of course...now the laundry room and downstairs bath need some HELP! Well at least it's not the windows and siding.
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