Our New Home in St. Louis

Welcome to Oxford Hills, our new home. We live with the fern at the top right balcony, except we usually go in the other side of the building, because the entrance there is one storey higher.

Here is our front door, number 7.

Living Room seen from the front door. The balcony door is behind the rocking chair. It wraps around the chimney.

The view from our balcony is great!

Dining Room as seen from the Living Room.

Dining Room as seen from the hallway. The kitchen doorway is immediately left, out of the picture. Please appreciate the miraculous appearance of the piano!

Kitchen...its not really as dark a place as it looks in this picture!

Jonathan using the kitchen...making syrup for our waffles!

Beyond the Dining Room is a long hallway.

First door on your left is the guest bath.

Across from the guest bath is our office. We set it up with our desks back to back. Hopefully we won't distract each other too much when we are studying!

Beyond the office and guest bath is our Bedroom.

It has two huge closets, a bath room and enough space for our dresser, a love seat and our big bookshelf besides. yikes! so much space!

Here's Jonathan setting up our bed.

Our Bathroom

This weird and scary friend greeted us in bed our first night. Sadly, the reception was not quite what he hoped for. He has now passed on.

All in all we really love our place here. Although it still feels weird to driving our own cars through the streets of St. Louis, having our own furniture and dishes here makes it feel a lot like home already. We do really like our new apartment.
The weather has been really nice, actually--very humid, but cool. We had some fun thunderstorms yesterday...I love thunderstorms and lightning, always have. Jonathan and I sat down and had a pot of tea while the rain poured down. I put my orchids outside, and they are happier than they have been in a long time, with all this humidity.
Tonight we are attending Covenant's President's Reception. Jonathan is going to wear a full suit for the first time in my experience. We think a bunch of adults dressing up like this is kind of silly, like a grown-up pretend tea party. I've been told that our feelings on the subject are distinctly 'Northwest' and will change over time with more exposure to the Midwest. We will just have to see about that!