I love taking photos around our house on quiet Sundays like this one. I like capturing all the silly things we keep buying, all the seasonal decorations we get so excited about, all the little arrangements we keep making, the piles and piles of books and movies that add to our comfort. I love to look at them knowing that they make our lives so rich. I can feel the love among these walls, and hear the laughter from room to room. I didn't think it would turn out half as much as it did when we bought this house.

Too many people think they'll buy a house and it will be their home. But a house and a home are so different things. Home is not what you buy; it is what you make. And this one, is mine.

So this is how it works: I listen quietly when couples talk, and if I get lucky, I make them forget that I am in the room at all. Following is what you get when a writer knows too many couples. Needless to say, X is a woman and Y is a man -- I have to maintain their privacy :-).

Y: Dinner on Valentine's Day is at 6 so plan accordingly.
X: Dress up?
Y: If you don't then it would be weird.
X: Am I coming down there to you?
Y: Yes, and no more questions. I already feel you know too much.
-On confusing surprises
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X to Y: So if I go and make out with a girl, that would technically not be cheating right?
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X to Y (showing him new curtains in the living room): Now this is what I call a surprise, not the one that you gave me yesterday - Oh, the AC is fixed, that you didn't even do yourself!!
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[At a home decoration store, picking out a bed-sheet set for Y - looking at a checkered black and white bed-sheet set]
Y: I like it but its a little too much like a bachelor, right?
X: Its kind of something you'd see in a guys room who brings a different girl over every night.
Y: Yeah, you're right..... ummm... but...*pauses* 
Y: Its Okay. You can keep coming over.
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[During an argument]

X: Yeah teach that to the next wife!
Y: Yeah, it's all about trial and error.
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[While putting his head on her lap, and being cheesy]
Y: You see now, even if someone were to give me a million dollars, I won't get up from your lap
X: If someone were to give you a million dollars for getting up, I will kick your off of me right now!
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