Home again

Cody and I were just talking about how our house is finally starting to feel like a home.  Sure, part of it is due to the fact that we have 80% of our decor/personal touches up, (I can't stand to not put up pictures etc for too long) but I think it's more.  I think it's spending enough time in a place to make memories.  Really, that's all that home is-and the people that are there on a regular basis.  Suddenly you notice how you don't take special note of the novelty of the new rooms/features: the strange creak in the window when you step on the third stair from the bottom, the sound of the water heater cycling water up through your walls.  Instead you are looking forward to future memories in the house and the people you'll make them with rather than the house itself.  I guess that's when it becomes a home-when it becomes more than just walls and doors but where you live laugh and love-as my lil clock says up in the play loft.

In other less sentimental news, I think I'm slowly being seduced by British television.  It's been a rocky start but let's just say I love Monday nights now thanks to Downton Abbey and Sherlock.  Thank you PBS for streaming these wonderful shows only a day after they air (just like hulu) only for free.  So with Downton I was obsessed/loved it right away, but the end of the 3rd season was almost too much for me and I swore off the show-tired of its ridiculous melodrama.  I grudgingly watched the season premier and then the 2nd episode has me hooked cause I just HAVE to know how they're going to resolve THAT drama.  I'm secretly rooting for Tom and Mary to end up together in the end-for some reason I don't feel like that would be weird.  

Sherlock has taken me by surprise.  We watched the first few episodes of the first season and kinda got bored with it...didn't really grab me.  It did feel true to the short story style of sherlock tho with the repetition of cases coming and going/getting solved etc, but we tried the second season recently and I liked it better cause I was more familiar with the back stories of those episodes, and we just watched the premier of the 3rd season tonight and it was great!  Of course now my thoughts all seem to be in a british accent but I guess there could be worse things.

I wouldn't say I'm close to going full brit and getting into Dr. Who (don't really get that cult following) but I'm glad to have some new shows to be into.  Basically what we watch nowadays is: Downton, Sherlock, Blacklist, and Modern Family.  Tho I have started watching Say Yes to the Dress on Netflix for fun on the side.

Eventually I'll get some pictures up of our home but there's a few more projects I need to finish.  Jake is loving it here tho, especially the basketball hoop.  Every time we go outside on the driveway he points up at it and make his lil grunt noise asking us to play.  Once he discovered the ball goes through the net he brings us the ball and points to the net grunting.  Jake turns 18 mo this week and will start nursery this Sunday so there will be a whole post on that.  I'm seriously curious/unsure of how it will go.  I could easily see it being a non event or very dramatic.  I guess we'll see :)