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“Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store.

Pardon my absence tomorrow while I’m off having the third best day of my life!There are all kinds of things wrong with our new home, but we take them all on gladly..It needs a ton of work on the inside to make it feel like a real home for us, but when you start with a shell like this, how can you go wrong?.

We were able to do a final walk-through over the weekend and got to see everything again and see if it was all just as we’d remembered it.I had a great time getting some quick photos around the property in the peak of Summer and (bonus!)the rooms all seemed much bigger and brighter than what we remembered.. We are thrilled.

Can’t wait.. Let me show you around!.This is the Summer view from right out the front door.

That’s a real honest-to-goodness wheat field in all it’s golden glory.. There’s my (already) beloved barn out across the creek.. And a corn field!

All I really wanted was to have a house with a cornfield behind it.I sometimes wonder what homework time looks like for the families of the other kids in Kennedy’s class.. Here’s what ours looks like: Juice stained face, half worn-off temporary tattoo and all.. Read more about my perfect moments.I had a great idea.

I really love those round rattan place mats that everyone has, but I sometimes have pretty large groups for dinner, so I would want to get about 10 or 12.With the cost of them, it just didn’t seem like the smartest investment right now..

I started thinking about other natural materials that I could use to get a similar look.And guess what I came up with.