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It's Been a Minute

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  Hey there, blog. It’s been a minute.  Every season in our new house brings new familiarity--we don’t know how our house and yard look in each season, so it feels like we’re slowly getting to know our house, month by month. The leaves in our yard were spectacular. Now, our house looks pretty in the snow. We’re settling in. The house is learning about us, we’re learning about the house. We’re finding weird issues to resolve--an outside spotlight that has no identifiable lightswitch to turn it on; outlets that don’t work; radiators that don’t work; fireplaces that may or may not burn the house down should we attempt to light them. Nevertheless, I love the house more every day. Right now we have fresh wreaths on all the windows--it looks quintessentially Christmassy. We were so lucky to find this place.  I still don’t know how we managed to get here. The progression from ‘hey, maybe we should do something wild like move,’ to actually moving, is blurry. Did we, like, have a big conversati