diff --git a/app/controllers/home_controller.rb b/app/controllers/home_controller.rb
index 95f2992..36c3668 100644
--- a/app/controllers/home_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/home_controller.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 class HomeController < ApplicationController
   def index
   end
+
+  def about
+  end 
+
 end
diff --git a/app/views/home/about.html.erb b/app/views/home/about.html.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9744b48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/home/about.html.erb
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<h1>About Us</h1>
diff --git a/app/views/home/index.html.erb b/app/views/home/index.html.erb
index 3899fcd..ed31212 100644
--- a/app/views/home/index.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/home/index.html.erb
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-<h1>Home#index</h1>
-<p>Hi Mariam. This is me. You should know this as you are sitting next to me.</p>
-<p>Boy I have a hard time remembering anything!</p>
\ No newline at end of file
+<h1>Home Page</h1>
+Leaving this blank until we create the other pages!
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 457f279..4d84bad 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 Rails.application.routes.draw do
-  get 'home/index'
+  # get 'home/index'
+  get 'home/about'
+  root 'home#index'
   # Define your application routes per the DSL in https://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html
 
   # Reveal health status on /up that returns 200 if the app boots with no exceptions, otherwise 500.