The House For Our Home

We have been looking for a new house to rent for the last couple of days. We have checked several including one right across my in-laws'. The house been empty for quite sometime and we have noticed that house also for quite sometime. It is a one story house which said to be unsuitable for Kelapa Gading with its seasonal flood. Despite all other similar unsuitable facts, the house is very suitable for our need, for our very own fact.

The house is planned to be lived in on the 2nd of August 2008, we are happy already because for the very first time of our marriage life, we will have something to be called a proper house. Not a room, not a pavilion, but a one complete, independent HOUSE.

Two bed rooms, a living room, a dining room, a bathroom, a maid room, a kitchen and a wet washing area. The size is perfect for our indoor activities. The existence is suitable for our dream. The dream we are building piece by piece each day.

Fajar and I agreed to fill the house without any unnecessary force. We both feel the same toward the house, it is where we want to build our future from. A place we want to stay long enough before we could afford to buy our own.

It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.

The living room will not yet to have a living set. The dining room also won't have the proper table and chairs. Many other things will not yet be in there to make it a happy furniture-filled-house but the house will be a home of three angels who will immediately fill it with their voices. Makes it warm and lively again after its long emptiness.

It is a very exciting experience we are going to have in that house. It is like having a new clean white paper to do art with. We are allowed to use pencils or maybe charcoal, water paint, crayons, pastels to art our dream on. The fact that we will have to save every penny for any furniture we want is not making it any harder. It will be a fun process to go through. Every furniture will be picked carefully based on many aspects but to make them control us. Life is so much larger than the furniture isn't it?

I mostly imagine to have row of bookshelves by one of the wall. Maybe even two walls. A corner of working space for my husband after we make peace about the position of the computer. Other than that nothing seems to be pretty crucial to think about except for making all things clean and save for the children.

Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence ... and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. ~ Frederick W. Robertson

We have marked dates to do all the preparation necessary for the move-in. We have discussed a lot of things for us to be able to move into the new house. That is one of the thing I like about my spouse. No matter how ugly can a discussion goes, we discuss no matter what. All the decisions were made together, after all it's a home we are building.

Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. ~ Robert Montgomery