1920s: A New House, A Funeral and A Baby

 

As summer start moving towards fall, the work on the Sinclair residence is moving along quickly. Soon it's time to choose which color and which panel to use, and Josephine uses the opportunity to ask her family for help in choosing. She shows them the different options, but also the unfinished house. Where the walls will go, what rooms will go where, how she will decorate the place. She has grand plans, and can barely wait until it is time to move in.

Yet wait she must, and by the time the house is finally finished, Josephine is waiting for something else. A very longed for baby! As she takes the first official tour of the house, with everything from wallpaper to furniture in place, she is almost ready to give birth. It was worth it, though, she thinks. The house is everything she dreamed it would be!

She loves her new life. Having a spacious kitchen to cook in, a garden to tend, having people over for dinner and her favourite sister next door. Mom and dad are of course the first guests, and Ida is frequently there. At night, Nash and Josephine sits together in their new living room, listening to their favourite talk radio programs. The radio theatre is their favourite.

The only dent in her happiness is the sudden news that Nash's mother passed away, and almost at the same time as her husband the reverend too. Nash is of course heartbroken by the loss of his mother (he cares less about the loss of a stepfather he never really liked), and Josephine does what she can to support her husband both at home and at the funeral, now led by the late reverend's foster son and the previous reverend's son who now takes over what was once his father's parish.

The day after the funeral, Josephine goes into labour. Nash panics, Josephine sends for her mother, and Abigail comes and happily takes over the house for the day. First she sends Nash out of the house, then tends to her daughter and helps deliver the new child. It's a boy and they name him after Nash's father Thomas.

Josephine is in love, but also exhausted. Abigail sends her to rest, and takes care of the baby until Nash has calmed down enough to meet his son. Look at the proud father.

At the end of the day, Abigail quietly slips out, letting the new little family have some quiet time for themselves. For Josephine all her dreams has come true, and life truly doesn't get better than this. 

A note about Josephine's house, for those who are interested 

To build time specific houses, I've used sources from that time period. For Emily and Frank's house, I used a blueprint from 1911 that I found here and in this case I used a blueprint in Sears and Roebuck Modern Homes from 1923, that I found here. On the same webpage I've gotten inspiration on everything from furniture and colors used. The wallpaper used here (and in Alice's and Anna's apartments) are made by landverbunny who makes beautiful vintage wallpaper reproductions.