Milestones

19 February, 2010. It's a big day. As of today, Jeff and I have been married two months and we have lived in our new home exactly one week! The combination of those two events, the commemoration of our marriage and the one week anniversary of our residence in our new home, thrills me and yet doesn't surprise me at all!
We are starting to feel at home in our new house and, have always felt at home, at peace, excited about and, completely secure in our unity as a couple.
It is a welcome surprise to find ourselves having escaped Beaverton unscathed and completely in love with each other and our new/old lives in inner South East Portland.
To paraphrase a good friend of ours, " It is so nice to be in a home that reflects us and a neighborhood in which we feel like we can breathe and grow and become ourselves, as a couple and as individuals, as a family... Death to the liminality of our life in Beaverton!"
Absolutely! We are so happy to be starting anew, finally! I don't think it has really hit us how lucky we are to be in living in the area we are in, no more then 3 minutes by car to just about anywhere we would want to be and within very easy walking/public transit access to the entire Portland universe.
The joy and the novelty of walking to pick up good chinese food (an 11 minute door to door round trip, including payment and pick up!) on Wednesday after work, was not lost on either Jeff or I! It's the little things sometimes!
Sure, we still have a basement full of boxes to deal with and sometimes have trouble remembering where we put the bowls, etc... but we are home and we are together and that means more to me and to Jeff then I think either of us could have anticipated.
For Jeff, living in a house built in 1920 is a big transition but, I think, a welcome one- for me, it feels like coming home. And even though I know a 90 year old house is only old in the North American sense, it feel familiar to me and I am glad to be able to ease Jeff into living in a house that has a soul and a positive history rather then ghosts of past residents and relationships and a negative history, a feeling that hung over us for the entire time that we "lived" in Jeff's old house in Beaverton.
Such a wonderful feeling to wake up everyday and be happy, not naive, not unaware that life and, love and being in a family and, a community takes daily work and commitment but, we are so happy to finally be here. We love our little bungalow and can't wait for Ethan to come stay with us and, for friends and family to come enjoy our new home with us. We have truly arrived! I will try to post pictures soon. Also, I sent out an email with our new contact info to most of you but, for those of you who were not on that list, feel free to email me at: aviva@eberlin.net for our street address, phone number(s), etc...
Love, Light, and (a rare moment) of Portland early Spring sunshine to you all! I've just written this whole blog soaking up vitamin D while basking in the sun on our front porch, as Flynn kitty looks on from behind the screen door- a new favorite occupation of his.
Be well, all!