provo houses

i dream of owning a house someday.  one with an expansive lawn and gardens.  maybe even a ranch where i can race on a horse across the prairie, the world rolling and tumbling by below my feet... the view before me endless blue sky and mountains stretching their arms to the heavens and across the land.  Or perhaps, a stone cottage by the sea where every morning i will wake and smell the salt and roses in the air (roses from my garden of course)... 

the most important aspects of my house will be... a place for the children to play inside and outside, a place for me to dance freely without inhibitions ( i have always thought a room is too crowded with stuff if it cannot be danced in), a place for josh to do his computer thing of course and any other hobby he wishes to pursue :) (i read this to josh and he asked for a secret lair :) a large kitchen for good meals to be made and eaten, a room for quiet and solitude, another for music and books... maybe even art if i ever become brave enough or if any of my children have the passion and desire.  the colors will be soft and enticing, cool and warm... blues and greens with accents of reds, yellows or any other harmonious vibrant color (josh asked for glow in the dark :)  the outside of my home will be carpeted in green grass and moss... the kind of lawn bare feet are grateful for...

 flowers and fruit trees (nectarines most especially), vegetable gardens where the spiders can grow large and fat (josh can get rid of them) (i remember them from my parents gardens... large and exotic looking, striped black and white...i never made friends with them though... they were too large for my childish imagination) and of course a berry patch... i love picking blueberries... something so satisfying in the way they roll in your fingers... something that reassures the ocd in me, hunting down the ripe berries and leaving the unripe behind for another wild tangle... i may or may not indulge my taste buds as i pick them :) or i may eat them after an early morning run... something so fresh and wonderful about a good run and then eating sun ripe, dew dripping berries first thing in the morning...  i will mow my lawns in perfect straight lines (i love mowing straight lines!!!... i have a life theory from mowing straight lines... straight lines are almost impossible... too many bumps and etc throw the wheels off their perfect course... but it is ok... just look behind you... see where you went of course... think about how you will fix it... and then do it ) i won't be too picky about which directions my lines go as long as they are good lines! maybe even circles... occasionally i may even make a maze to play cat and mouse in with my children.  after all i can just mow it again and make it nice for the neighbors later )

and there will be animals... horses... a milk cow (i am not sure who will milk it, i have never milked a cow)... chickens (if i can tolerate them)... dogs and cats (they WILL get a long :)... 

last, but not least... i want my home to be comfortable... i want people to enter and feel a sigh of relief sooth their souls... i want them to be able to feel that this is a home away from home... you can relax here, talk here about anything, find safety and comfort here, healing, quiet and joy, to feel the happiness of the noise and exuberance and love of family and friends, i want them to be able to feel love... God's love, my love, and my families love and leave feeling warmed by that love and my berry or pumpkin pie