Welcome to Your New Home

I spent more than a decade moving around, not staying in the same home for more than 2 years (dorms, apartments, rented rooms, a house, a trailer and a town house, oh my).  But last year, I finally found the home where I expect to spend at least two decades.  When we moved in we saw a sight similar to this (recreated for this blog entry):

                                                   and what a wonderful sight that was!

After lots of heavy lifting, not to mention unpacking (which I LOVE to do, but it is still hard work) it was such a good feeling to be able to relax with my love and share a bottle of wine.  Since I have very few original ideas, I quickly copied it for the folks who were buying the house that we were moving out of.  I never want to offend and some people may not like wine.  So I found out through our realtor that they did, in fact, like wine.  I also knew that they had adolescent children, and I did not want to leave them out of the celebration.  So we got them a bottle of wine and some sparkling grape juice, along with some dollar store wine glasses.


****Just a precautionary note, make sure to either get a bottle that has a screw cap (can you believe that exists?!) or pick up one of those affordable cork screws to leave with the display.  It stinks to have a bottle of wine with no way to open it, and when moving into a home, the corkscrew may not be the most accessible item****