This view

When we bought this house, I had a wish list.

I wanted and wished and hoped we'd find a place with a bedroom for each of our girls, a study to work in {and meditate in too}, an open-plan living area, a backyard large enough for a swing set and a kitchen with a five-burner stove top so I could could keep on cooking three variations of the one meal at dinner time {to accommodate for everyone's dietary requirements here}...

I was so grateful when we found a place that ticked all those boxes. In what felt like a very close call, but was actually perfect timing.

But the best part of this house is it feels like home.

We're so happy here. We were happy almost instantly. And so were our girls.

And I love most that we're really living in this house. There's mess and two little girls thumping on the floorboards as they chase each other, play hide and seek, dance like fairy ballerinas and run around roaring like lions and tigers too.

Yesterday we sat outside eating watermelon and grapes and I realised {and learnt} my favorite part of this house isn't those things I wanted in our house at all. It's being here together, and looking at the view.

Each morning I step outside, look out and the first thing I see is the sky. And it amazes me and takes my breath away at times too.

We bought this house on the rainiest, stormy day when the sky was filled with clouds {a day that looks much like today here actually}, and when I stood on the decking all I saw was a haze of grey.

But for the past few months, we've been looking directly out at a glimpse of hills and houses and a big bright blue and wondrous sky.

xx

What do you love most about where you live?