Wednesday, May 14, 2014

The house where I grew up

This is what the old house looks like now.  It's for sale.  I laughed when I read that it had seven bedrooms.  When my parents bought it in 1950, it had two bedrooms.  My parents added two to the back and later added a stairway and three bedrooms in the attic. Rabbit holes.  My room was the upstairs room facing the front. It had sloping eaves and built-in bookshelves on either side of that window.  It had a bed and a desk.  Perfect.  I'm sorry to say that it's not pictured in the multiple listings.

Mother's kitchen has been painted and it has a dishwasher!  Mother poo poohed dishwashers.  Our kitchen table extended into the kitchen.  I sat at the end with my back facing the window. Daddy sat at the other end.  Mother to his side.  For the first time, I can't remember where everyone sat.  Toni sat at my right. 

 Help me out--where did the rest of you sit?






5 comments:

  1. I've not had this experience so tell me what it feels like to revisit this home of your youth and see changes but remember where each of you sat?

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  2. My parents have changed their house and since I am far away I will not see it till Christmas and I am very nervous to go and see the changes actually I feel I might cry which is silly as it is just a house!

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  3. I think Grandma would be mortified to see those bikes hanging on the walls, as seen in the MLS pictures. What the...? I want to buy it and make it wonderful.

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    1. I want to put the old porch back on so it looks the way it did when I was young. Exactly like the house next door.

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