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Happy Advent

During Advent we  wait and remember that this home is not our eternal home. This year was a year of waiting and working while we wait. We were waiting to buy a house, close on the house, fix the house and settle in to the house.

As we come to the end of 2009, we remember many blessings we noticed while we've been waiting.

We remember our happy first apartment and our backyard urban garden.

We think of the process that we worked through (and sometimes cried through, Abby more than Sam) to have our new house feel like home.

We are continuing to think about what it means to build a home together. There are daily routines that turn out to be quite important and it seems that these routines are what makes our house feel like home.

So instead of Christmas cards we are sending along some pictures of our process...

Our First Urban Garden

the garden grows

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Urban Garden

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2009 spring evening

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Home-Pungeant-Home

Home-Pungeant-Home

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Home-Almost-Home

home-almost-home

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Home-Sweet-Home

home @ Christmas 2009 (and some others)

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Other Adventures

New Transmission

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Family Reunion Sunday

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Statue of Liberty

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July 4 @ the Shore

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Meg's Birthday

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Not Closing on the House Today

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