{happy halloweenie}

Have I ever mentioned that I love my house? Because, I do. 

I live in an old house in the historic district of Milledgeville. It is white and cute and has a big front porch with a porch swing. One of my favorite things is that my room is connected to the front porch so I get to spend a lot of time out there alone. My room is actually meant to be a living room but it never got used so it was made into a bedroom. Anyways, when you walk in the front door, you walk straight into my room. Here's a picture of it. 

The floors are all old hardwood expect for the kitchens {yes, there are two kitchens} and the living room and all the windows are really big. Oh, and the living room, OH THE LIVING ROOM! It is great, my second favorite room in the house after my bedroom. Two of the walls of the living room are completely windows from floor to ceiling. Our house is kind of on a hill so, the backside of the house where the living room is has the basement underneath it. I guess you could say the living room is on a second story, which gives the feeling that we are really high up when you look out the living room windows. And our back yard has a bunch of trees so, sometimes it feels like we are in a tree house or something. Its kind of hard to explain but I think you get the picture. I have to say, it's a pretty cool house. I will be sad to leave it one day.

However, the best parts of this house are the people that I have gotten to live in it with. Currently, there are eight people living in this house. I KNOW. IT'S A LOT. But the perks of living with so many people is that there is pretty much always someone home, which is nice. I moved in last summer to this house. Over the past year and a half almost I have experienced so much love living here. And with as many people as we have living in this house, there is hardly a dull moment! It is crazy to me how the combination of so many different personalities can work so well together.

Last year was very different from this year. I loved last year. We were all pretty much in the same places in our lives, graduating or getting ready to graduate, and we had also spent the majority of college with one another before we ever lived together. This made for some pretty close bonds. In May, two of my dearest friends lived here with me and it was really hard when they graduated and moved out. Honestly, its still hard now some days that they are graduated and moved out. And in December, two more girls that I have grown so close to over the last couple years will be graduating and moving out, as well.

So, four new girls moved in this August and it was hard at first. Not because I don't like them, they are fabulous, it was just different. But I have to say that the one thing I have been learning the most from the Lord is that everything is always evolving and we never stop growing because of that. These new girls, no matter how wonderful they are, they don't know me like my older friends know me and I was so scared that it was going to be too different. I was right, it is different. But it is not bad. It is actually really good. There are things that I miss everyday about last year. It was fun. It was what I knew. It was comfortable. Now, there are new things that I learn everyday about the girls that I live with. They have brought a new life back to our house, something that had, understandably, gotten bogged down last year in all the everyday hustle and bustle of trying to figure out what life is going to be like after Milledgeville. But these girls, right now their life is in Milledgeville and for right now so is mine and that is something I forget a lot. Even though my time is dwindling here, I would like to think of myself as in the same place as these mostly sophomore girls, just living and enjoying life in Milledgeville.

So, we are having a Halloween party tonight that I am especially excited about! I've been listening to this song from The Nightmare Before Christmas all day. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

TTFN,

Jessica