We got our new home; now off on a vacation

I am so happy, indescribably content, over the moon.  I feel like a robin in the spring, flying around, twigs in my mouth, building my nest!  We picked up our keys and drove over to our house, unashamedly texting everyone we knew that we had picked up our keys and were heading to our first house.  I will never forget walking up the path and putting my first key in the door and swinging it open to our new life.  My guy of course took a picture of everything.  We had a great surprise waiting for us when we walked in.  On the breakfast bar in the kitchen, our agent had left a bouquet of flowers, Brie, crackers, grapes, nuts, chocolate and more champagne!  I unpacked our champagne, strawberries, camembert, chocolate, crackers and cookies to supplement and we began celebrating. We wandered around the house, champagne in our hands, talking and looking at each room, my hands rubbing down the walls to assure myself that it was true.  I must have tread up and down those two flights of stairs fifty times, learning the way, letting my feet trust and remember each riser on the staircase, each turn in the wall.  It was echoed, was alternately dark and light and always wonderful.  Paint colours, furniture position and carpet details were interrupted by soft kisses and lingering looks between us.  We have our home.  Later we sat in candlelight and ate pad thai and spring rolls, sipped champagne and gobbled down the remaining fruit.  Our first meal in our first house, an empty house waiting anxiously to be filled with our memories, a blank canvas on which we can paint our life.  It seemed such a shame to leave when we did to go back to the condo but I left part of my heart there and there it remains waiting for us to come back after our vacation.

Later today we leave for the Dominican Republic for our week’s vacation in the sun.  And we both really need it.  We are both fighting off the start of colds, colds I am convinced have been brought on by stress, exhaustion from work and all that is going on right now.  I am so looking forward to warm breezes sitting under a palm writing in my journal or reading, the feel of cool water against my skin under a baking sun, delicious meals, afternoon naps, cocktails in the evening, laughing at evening entertainments and moonlit walks on the beach back to our room when the day is done.  We have a tradition of a midnight swim in the pool of the resort on the first night we arrive anywhere down south.  I will know we will have arrived when I am slipping into the water this evening.  We are gone a week so I won’t be able to write while we are away but I will be thinking of you and saving up lots of thoughts and memories to share.  Have a great week and I will see you when we get back.