Our Perfect House

Our Perfect House

We were ready to buy a house. We’d talked about it many times, though not seriously. But now we had our first child on the way, we were serious.

Though we had plenty of time, even after our child was born, we wouldn’t actually need a swing set… but that’s what brought us to the feeling that it was about time to seriously think house.

We searched together many times, plus both kept our eyes open for possibilities when we were driving alone. I was amazed, frankly, at how many different houses there were! I grew up in the same house my parents’ bought years before I was born. I started taking pictures of houses for sale, and even houses I just liked, to show to Alex.

That day I was driving down a new road and I saw my perfect house. Not only the house, the yard, even the neighborhood. Unfortunately, not for sale. But I decided to take a photo anyway to show Alex how perfect it was. The house, the landscaping, even the picture window in what I assumed was the living room. I loved it.

I had to get out of my car to get the best pictures because there was a car in the driveway and I wanted the picture window in one of my photos to show Alex.

Well! The next day… that very house was in the news! Someone had broken in and stolen tons! The owners were away when it happened. They were asking for anyone who may have seen anything. There was a reward! Guess who had a picture of the getaway car, even their license plate! We didn’t buy that house, of course. But the reward helped us buy a very similar house.

And, fifty years later, it’s still perfect.