Happy Houseaversary

Happy Houseaversary to us! 

Ten years ago today, we closed on our house on Ashridge.  Our houseaversary also happens to be our half-anniversary (of our wedding), so it's a big day for us! 

Here she is, in a more-than-slightly distorted pic from Google Maps.  (Must be an old picture, because that's Everett's bucket out there by the driveway.  Isn't it crazy that he had only just turned three when this picture was taken?) 

Hard to believe that we've had that house for ten years.  We lived in it for 8 years and change, and I still get up in the middle of the night to get water, and I try to turn the faucet the way our Ashridge house faucet turns, which of course doesn't work with our faucet here.  I also still flip absent light switches on the blank wall of our Saudi house where they would have been on Ashridge.  Old habits die very hard.  Now, we've been away from it for almost two.  I wonder if it would still feel like home after all the changes we've had. 

To our house and all our beloved friends in the Square - we miss you, especially today!!  Wave to our house today, if you pass by!   Happy houseaversary, Ashridge House!