This House is a Home

Moving seems to be an event that reoccurs in our lives.  We realized the other day that since Paul and I meet we have not lived in one dwelling for more than a year and a half.  We have been moving to make a change or our situation changes and a new residence is needed.
While all the moves have been a step in the direction we needed to go, the constant moving can sometimes give us the sense of temporary all the time.  The idea that we are only "here for now".  We never really make anything our own and so it never really feels like our home.
We decided that this is not a way we want to be living and feeling, that this may be our "for now" house for the next 5 years, so we need to stop thinking of it that way and make it our home.

As my Mother's Day gift as well as completing one of the things on my list of 73 things in 730 Days we are redoing the gardens.  I love the look of colorful and beautiful flowers in gardens.  It makes the homes looked loved and lived in.  To drive or walk up to our house with the gardens beautiful is like a giant WELCOME HOME sign in the front.

The kids helped with the digging up and replanting. (Lily ate more dirt than her total weight I am sure, while Sam accidently pulled out flowers we wanted to keep).   We enjoyed working in the earth together as a family with Uncle Jon directing with his landscaping background.  All in all I think the result is beautiful. We have a few more shrubs to buy this weekend and more chip to lay, but I can see it all coming together and I almost feel the house thanking us for loving it while we are here, no matter what the length of time.