Welcome home!

And so it begins, cue the clouds, the theme music, and "The Fowlers" in diminishing yellow text.

Welcome to our little life here in the Triad, just a young married couple and their dog.  The Simpsons brought us together back when we were teenagers, we had a reading from them in our wedding, and we pretty much quote it every day, so it seems only fitting that it be our blog's theme.  So expect multiple references in every post, just FYI.

We have moved around a lot as a couple (four homes in three states so far), but now it seems that we have planted the seeds to what will become the roots of our life together.  A wonderful job opportunity brought us to Greensboro, NC, and by pure luck we found our current home over our one weekend of house hunting paid for by the hubs' new company.  We love it.  I have had two weeks between closing and starting my new job to make it our own, and so far things are progressing well.  However, I am learning that I need to retrain myself out of the renter mindset.

I'm sure you know what I mean, since most everyone rents at least once in one's life, but I will specify my own definition.  In the renter's mindset, I can already see the end of my time in a place.  Walls that are painted need to be repainted.  Holes that are made need to be completely refilled without a mark to avoid paying extra.  Anything that you want to do with the decor needs to be done immediately, otherwise you will run out of time to enjoy it and spend the rest of your home decorating life trying to recreate that perfect arrangement, or stuck in a mental pigeonhole of how things fit together.  But here, there is no end in sight.  Things that I do don't have to be undone.  Walls will stay that color until I change them.  Projects can wait for months or even years until I come across the perfect piece at an antique store or consignment shop.  It's so liberating, I tells ya.

So the purpose of this blog will be to document our journey as real-life, mortgage holding, home decorating, root-planting grown-ups.  Hope you will enjoy reading about it as much as we will enjoy living it!