On the Creating Home Front

In January, we start looking for a place to live. Having a place of our own will be a very welcome thing as we are all a little tired of living out of suitcases. At Christmas, my sister gave me a whole stack home decor books to indulge in for inspiration and ideas for the kind of space we want to find and create. I had a heavenly afternoon of couch sitting and flipping through every single page of every single one.
       In the meantime, until we start looking for our own space, I have acquired an obsession with homes and houses to such an extent that even when I see a doll house, I swoon, and want to buy it, and even carry it from house to house the way my son carries his Fisher-Price Little People House around that he inherited from my childhood. But I didn't. We have five suitcases the three of us were living out of, and we soon realized that moving five suitcases around as we switch between house sitting and sublets -in the snow and up flights of stairs - was a pain. We packed Christmas presents away, switched out the son's toys and books, and committed to wearing the same sweaters until we find a home, and stored two suitcases away in a friend's closet. No room to lug around a dollhouse or model-home-I-wish-was-mine. Not that I don't see old ladies with bags and carts around Brooklyn who could show me how to do it.