One thing that I do every time we look at moving is involve my children.
My son’s involvement this time, thus far, has amounted to giving us permission to look for a house, permission to move into the house, and acknowledgment that he wants his own room still in the new house. I do believe he said something along the lines of wanting a playroom too.
My daughter always makes a drawing of our new home.
When we left MO for MO a couple years ago, she drew a lovely big house, with a dad and a mom and two kids, and a baby cradle for her baby sister visible in the upstairs window, and a dog playing out in the front yard under the apple tree with the tire swing in it.
We haven’t gotten that house yet, but it is still an option for later on.
I asked her to draw out the house we should be looking for this time around.
Here is what she drew:
She seems to have used a combination of techniques here: water colour, pencil, crayon and marker.
I especially love the four dogs in the picture. All on tie-outs in the front yard because it’s not fenced in.
Her drawing has inspired me to start an art journal of the process here towards finding us the “perfect’ house to turn into a Home.
I will keep you updated as we go along.
Posted by KnittingJourneyman 
