Short Moving Story

I share this story that dates back to our move for your enjoyment but also for my own benefit of getting it down in writing so I won't forget. :) As before mentioned, Brandon and I arrived at the house a couple of days before MariCagle and Nate to get a jump on improvement projects. Brandon began laying the flooring in the basement, and I got to cleaning the place up. The kids arrived in the midst of still more improvement projects, but they easily kept busy in the big empty playground, I mean house. :) One morning Nate and I were the first ones up and we took a minute to sit together in the empty den and chat. I asked him what his favorite part about his new house was expecting him to talk about the stairs or his bedroom. But he said he loved the leaf fan (a large fan in the den with blades that mimicked large leaves) and the dining room 'because the light made it feel like a ball room.' I was taken aback for two reasons. One, as I said before, it wasn't the answer I was expecting. And two, both of those light fixtures were on the short list for replacement! Nate memorialized both fixtures and hung his art on the fireplace, and needless to say, he was very saddened to see the fan disappear in the night and the chandelier later that day. He has since gotten over it, but I must say I felt at least a little guilty, not guilty enough to keep the fixtures, but a little guilty nonetheless. And now that a couple of weeks have passed, there is no longer mention of either favorite and he seems to be enjoying other aspects of the new home. Below is his rendering of his two favorite things...