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10/07/2006: "Our New House!"
We moved into our new home in the middle of August. We really love it! It is our first "real" house, as my daughter would call it. In the past 18 years we've lived in a subsidized apartment, a mobile home, a manufactured home, and now a "real" house. Unfortunately for my daughter we moved a week before she left for college. She's having so much fun at college, though, that I doubt she's thinking about it that much 
Our new home is a stucco, mission style home. It is 2,000 square feet with four bedrooms, a small formal living room, and a family room. We also have a garage, aka my husband's "shop". The best thing about our new home is that the back yard is completely surrounded by a 6-ft cedar fence that our boys will not be able to escape from for awhile. The yard has been completely landscaped and has a gazebo in the center with wisteria growing all over it. I just love the yard. I've never been much of a gardener, but will definitely have to learn. Besides the wisteria there are roses, hostas, hydrangeas, magnolias, yucca, butterfly bush, clematis, spruce trees, weeping cherry trees, geraniums, burning bushes, and more, all in a relatively small yard! The boys spend hours playing outside.
I'm having a lot of fun turning our new house into a "home". I have been wanting to learn how to quilt, and have "dabbled" in it off and on over the years. I am making a small autumn quilt to hang on the wall in the living room. It's been fun working on it at night after the boys go to bed (when I don't fall dead asleep on the couch first, that is!)
Rachel Paxton
Editor/Publisher
CreativeHomemaking.com