My Dream Home

This is my dream home. EVERYTHING about it. Seriously. I love the style, the grey stone, the green colored shingle siding, the bright white trim... I LOVE it. The actual house plan was larger but I edited part of it out of the photo. Why am I posting this? Because Natalie talked about pieces of a dream home in a recent blog and I like it when we all share similar things. I actually love reading my friends' blogs because I learn so much about them. Anyway, there is another reason.... I hope to buy some land next year. Since this house was clearly designed for a life I do not currently have (unless it comes with the Hugh Jackman-esque husband and 2.4 kids???) I wanted to take the long way to getting there. True to form I have a plan (and true to form I assume God has a different plan, so I'm flexible on this). Anyway, here it goes: 

Step 1 - buy the perfect piece of land

Step 2 - build a decent sized garage with an apartment above it - I can live there until I can afford to build the house (and find the family). An idea of what I want to build is below, but obviously I want it to match the house so image the grey stone, white trim, and green shingle siding from above...

Step 3 - build house

Step 4 - fill it with boys (that sounds weird but what I mean is: get married, have lots of sons)

Step 5 - let our aging family members live in said garage apartment when they get too old to live alone. 

Anyone who really knows me probably almost died when they read step 5. I can't think of anything I would have fought more in the past than that, BUT as I've watched my Dad and StepMom take care of their parents recently, it's the right thing to do. I already told them that I would make it 2 bedrooms, plenty of space, close enough to care for them, and far enough away from the main house for privacy. It's a darn good plan if I do say so myself...  :) ... oh and Trae, if you read this, I would let the Kendricks live there after my parents, well you know... =P