Oh my goodness you guys!!!! Andrew Engle and I adulted SO HARD yesterday…. Signed sooooo much paperwork to make things officially official with our house! This process makes me SO THANKFUL for my ACTIVE JOB!!!
Now going out to the garage to move my body and shake this headache off from staring at fine print for the past couple hours!!!!
This girl was not my designed for that!!!!! Haha! Good thing my job just requires me to dance for my workout, make yummy meals that are good for you and play on social media!!!!
Signing all this paperwork and thinking about decorating (and being in PINTEREST land!) and turning our new house into a home has got me thinking.
Ever hear that song? “The house that built me?” its been on REPEAT lately! ITS SO INSANE the role a HOUSE can have on your life. And its exciting to Andrew Engle and I that we get to start creating one for our future family.
Social Media in itself is so crazy. I come here for support, for love, for encouragement and I truly consider all the people that I get to know through it, my friends.
And A LOT of times I come here to share things that I have learned in life. I MEAN If we don’t share that stuff, WHAT would be the point of going through it? Picking our new HOME and thinking about decorating has me wanting to bring aspects of what make me feel like HOME and COZY and I can’t help but think about my ORIGINAL home.
Some of you might not know that I grew up in Philadelphia, living with my grandparents (after my parents got divorced my mom and I moved in there) in THE GREATEST green mansion EVER. We had an acre large backyard where pretty much every life event went down for me 🙂 I practiced every single day in that yard ALONE to get good at cheerleading, I hit myself in the face playing softball alone, countless birthday parties, slip and slides, sneaking in after a night out (sorry mom HAHA), crashed there ANYTIME I came home and then even got MARRIED there!! The house was a part of me. SO you can imagine when we found out that my grandparents were selling it….. what an emotional hit that was. I cried, I refused to accept it. ALL OF IT.
The last time I was home…. I COULD NOT resist driving by, and out of second nature told Andrew Engle to pull in the driveway. It was like an inner compass was pulling me in. (This might sound crazy) and just as I thought they are building a housing development on our GORGEOUS sanctuary in the middle of Philadelphia …probably one of THE ONLY backyards of that size and beauty to still EXIST in Philly and it didn’t even make me mad.
As soon as I saw it (bulldozers and machines leaning up against the chestnut tree I once got stuck in causing my Pop to get a ladder and rescue me LOL) I realized it wasn’t the same 538 I had always known. It looked like a SHELL of a house that I used to know, like the light that had been dimmed on it. AND THEN IT HIT ME, it was never the house…. it was ALWAYS the people inside it, the memories that were there.
Andrew and I are SO excited to make this new house OFFICIALLY our home… but I have realized lately…. WHERE EVER we move, it will be a HOME not because of what or where it is BUT because of the LOVE IN IT and the family that HE AND I START. <3
So even after 28 years this house is still teaching me lessons. The things we have, the places we live, the belongs we get along the way… mean VERY LITTLE. It’s the PEOPLE. The people that fill those things in your life that make it. SO YEAH, did I want to knock on the door and give them a piece of my mind…. HECK YEAH ! But I’ll settle for thinking of their faces when they dig up ALL MY DEAD ANIMALS that are buried in the side yard —-HAHAHHA!!!! and there are approx. 3 hamsters, 1 guinea pig, possibly a few cats and a dog! Happy digging 😉
#PeopleNotPlaces
#ThoseAreTheThings
#TheHouseThatBuiltMe
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