Wide Screen

There's a porch on my house! I have wanted a big front porch for as long as I can remember and now I have one! It will have some lovely columns and stonework when it's done but having it 'roofed' makes it real! This is my favorite part of the house and where I hope we will spend a lot of quality time as a family and with friends on warm summer evenings (they DO have those in South Bend don't they??) and after football games etc. etc. (Although maybe not those September games...well, we could go sit on the porch just probably not sleep at the house!) Anyway...the porch pulls the rest of the house together and now that most of the house is 'under roof' it is starting to look like I pictured it. And we'll have fewer puddles in the dining room. They should have it all covered by the time it is supposed to rain again tomorrow! Have I mentioned how much I love the weather in the Midwest?? (BTW, the house is perfectly level - not leaning as it appears in this pic. I took it through the window of the car on a drive by -- not my best work!)

It's a little more house than we imagined from the outside...Brian has taken to calling it the "big-ass bungalow" but as they close it up, I feel more comfortable with its overall size. Now that we can't make any more changes I think it's normal to begin/continue second guessing all the choices we made. So I keep reminding myself that we made them for good reasons and it's all a big puzzle so there was no one perfect solution. If you really want to feel like you're living this adventure with us...open a bottle of wine, pour a big glass and repeat after me..."It's going to be great, it's going to be great, it's going to be great...."