I appreciate the differences

 I loved our Allegan house.  It had history and character.  I appreciated its age and personality.

When we decided to move we knew our new house would be very, very different and it is.  Boy, howdy, is it.

My "I love this about my new house list" is in no way to mean that I didn't like the fact that the features on the list weren't in Allegan and that's why we left.  No.  We left because it was time.

We have light!  I mean direct light.  That light comes flying through all our windows (at different times of the day, of course) because we don't have big trees around our house.  I miss those old giants but I'm in love with the sunshine.

No stairs here at the Red House.  No more dragging the vacuum up and down steps.  

Two bathrooms!!!  OMG!

An attached garage.  Every single time we drive down our street and hit the opener and watch the door go up, we smile.  Don't have to dash through the rain anymore.

There's this new machine that washes your dishes.  Have you heard of it?  It does a really nice job too.  I thought with just the two of us I wouldn't use it very often.  Turns out . . . not.  I love it.  

Oh and the biggy - CLOSETS! With lights inside!!!!!

And OUTLETS! And LIGHT SWITCHES!

We're only 22 miles from that old house and, yes, I drive by it every time I come into town for my monthly haircut.

I'm so happy that the young couple in it appreciate her.