house tour, part one

Welcome to our home.  Built in 1947, our little house is sweet, warm and peaceful.  It features awesome things like the original fir floors and glass doorknobs.  It is our first house, and we love it.  After years of renting, it feels good to have our own walls to live behind.  Walls where a 6 year old can experiment with being older.  Here, I found that he had taped a Star Wars poster (handmade, of course) to his wall...

But no matter how "big boy" he acts, I take delight in the fact that every night since he was 4 months old, he's cuddled with the same bunny stuffy, who he named Happy Bunny.  Once, he forgot Happy at his dad's house in another town.  Happy needed to be sent priority post back to us, where he could be cuddled once again...

Ever since he was 3, or maybe younger, he started wanting to bring home items, usually natural bits and pieces for his "collection".  This was his own idea but one that must be from his ancestral memory.  This sort of curating runs in the family.  Chloe, at a year and a half, already has her own type set tray filled with wonderful bits and pieces.  Here's Aethan's, complete with coral, curly bark, a meteorite and carved sticks...

And of course, on top of the collection, the old Death Star and Vader Pez dispensers.  A prize possession...

I found this old Avon light house bottle at the thrift.  I couldn't pass it up...

We do weekly library trips.  Here, a stack waits to go back.  I didn't get a chance to read the Extreme Vinyl Cafe, and there was a request.  I'll have to wait until next time...

  

It is a constant battle to keep Aethan's room clean.  Lego playing requires little piles here and there, and he's not entirely committed to putting them back where they came from...

My stack of bird books (and an old bible that I can't get rid of), including my Grandad's well used copy.  It is truly one of my favorite items in the house, complete with handwritten notes in the margins....

My other Grandad sits in a frame, I love this photo of the man I never met, but love to pieces...

A stone with a naturally worn hole from the beach near where I grew up.  I'd like to go back to that beach to find more stones with holes...

The Christmas tree is down now, but I loved it while it was up...

The fridge wouldn't be complete without Aethan's art and school photo.  Yes, he's wearing his Empire Strikes Back shirt.  He went to school and secretly took off his nice sweater before the shot was taken.  He's serious about his love for Star Wars, that's for sure...

My office, with post office receipts and my saved tomato seeds...

I hope you liked what you saw of our little house.  We love it here in the Alberni Valley.  And next time, I'll show you around the garden, okay?