You can't very well name something that doesn't belong to you. Patience is, to me, the hardest to learn of virtues and I find myself being a student of her always. Waiting. Just waiting. Less than a month.
It really and truly seems like a dream. I pray every day that come November 3rd the papers are signed, the keys are handed to us, and just as a snap of the fingers, quick and sharp, our lives are changed forever. Do we really become owners of this beautiful home? Do we really get to live in New York? Do our children really get to partake of all these wonderful opportunities? DO WE REALLY HAVE ACCESS TO THREE TOILETS UNDER OUR ROOF????😉😊
I almost feel like naming her would be a jinx, but I know that our God does not work like that. Still, you can't very well name something that doesn't belong to you.
Naming Cainberly was so easy. One whimsical day I decided, undoubtably whilst reading Austen, that our home needed a name. After all, I thought, she is full of care and personality and deserves to be called so much more than "home". Though that little four letter word be packed with so much more than location, it just didn't evoke the feeling in my heart at the thought of her. What house was charm and grace and love and wisdom and beauty personified? Well, Pemberly of course! And one step away was Cainberly and, thus, naming perfection!
My family thinks it ridiculous. They always thought it ridiculous.
As we prepared to move, friends began asking "What of Cainberly? Will you name the next house? Will it be Cainberly too?" I really didn't realize it had become quite the"thing"! I answered vaguely, guaranteeing it would not be decided upon until we owned our next home. Here we are on the cusp of owning the next home and I'm startled by how much I find myself thinking of this very thing! But I have questions......
Do you name each house individually?
Is it the idea of home that I've given a name to?
If the above is true, she goes with us everywhere we go together so why would I rename her?
Longbourne, Netherfield, Mistlethwaite Manor.....where do I begin for this house?
You can't very well name something that doesn't belong to you. I will be patient.....and look to you for inspiration,
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Oh, I miss you! Your post card came today..of course you will name her (are they always female?) because you are just that romantic, a true classic and beautiful inside and out. You have such great appreciation for God's beautiful work- in nature and even architecture, in the graceful curve of a chair leg, the squeak of porch boards and ample built-in shelves for literary storage. It's so much easier to love something when it has a name. I can't wait to hear it and I can't wait to visit!!- xxoo Bran
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