Finally Home

It's official. We are home. At least we are in our new house and in the process of making it home. The boxes are unpacked, the new furniture is assembled, the dogs have their spots... So it's home, right? It should be, but it still holds an aura of strangeness and temporary that I keep trying to drive out but I can't eradicate. More time is needed, along with friend and family, to fill to empty space and create memories to live in them. A table that's never had a friend sit at it, a backyard garden that no friends helped to plan or plant, a living room that's never heard the laughter of competitive game - that's why it's still a house.