The paperwork was completed yesterday, buying us ownership of our new family home. My parents have been nervous and giddily excited; both side effects of going into eye-widening debt temporarily. As to the rest of us, we are just happy-eyed with thoughts of swimming in Lake Michigan, sailing as much as we like, inviting friends and family over. I am most ridiculous, thinking of how my children will sit in the secret reading room beneath the stair or climb into the tower while visiting their grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, strangers always welcome. Yeah... right. I don't even have have kids yet.
We will live just up from Old Mission Harbor, on the beautiful Old Mission Peninsula in the schoolhouse they built after holding school on a schooner for years. We will be giving up our barns and forest but the longview of my family growing old in this house is satisfying. There are huge windows and a promise of prevailing breezes in the summer from the harbor. There is space for twenty people. Great big maples surround the house. A patch of lavender stretches along the front. I'm very excited.
We will live just up from Old Mission Harbor, on the beautiful Old Mission Peninsula in the schoolhouse they built after holding school on a schooner for years. We will be giving up our barns and forest but the longview of my family growing old in this house is satisfying. There are huge windows and a promise of prevailing breezes in the summer from the harbor. There is space for twenty people. Great big maples surround the house. A patch of lavender stretches along the front. I'm very excited.
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