Buyer's remorse is a common affliction among new home owners. Just because you have a sudden urge to weep doesn't mean you've made a mistake. Everybody knows old houses have their quirks...
The trick to overcoming buyer's remorse is to have a plan. Pick one room and make it yours. Go slowly through the house. Be polite, introduce yourself, so it can introduce itself to you.

- Frances Mayes ( as played by Diane Lane in the movie Under The Tuscan Sun. )

Do we have buyer's remorse?

No way. We couldn't be more thrilled. Even the work (and there has been A LOT of work) is a joy, we are finding. When it means you are creating a home.

But there have been new, shall we say, less than ideal experiences. Being locked out of our house? Yeah, that's one of them. Finding out we need to rewire our dryer hook-up is another. Working in the yard until 10:00 at night, coming in filthy, exhausted, covered in a million tiny cuts and scrapes and bruises, just getting settled in the bathtub and fully lathered-up in shampoo only to find the hot water suddenly not working...? 

I won't lie to you. That pretty much sucked.

But it's an old house, as my husband says. It has it's quirks, as Frances Mayes says. And it's all part of the charm.

Did I tell you we are only the fourth owners? Since 1920.

The doors and door frames in the bedrooms bear measurement marks from 2 different generations. As the new-comers we are the hot conversation topic amongst the neighbors. And we've already met most of those that live immediately around us. (They all know we have a daughter too, though they have yet to meet her.) We've been brought flowers, invited to the annual picnic and given a map of the whole circle complete with everyone's name and all their children's ages.

So, sketchy hot water after 10:00 at night? Small price to pay, I think...