02/27/2024
This little house holds so many memories for me. It’s funny how you can simply look at even just a photo of a house and see times of your life played out like one of your old favorite movies, with the characters who have come and gone out of your “story” that you love, and miss so very much. It’s almost like time has stood still, and you can instantly go back in time and remember so many things that you had forgotten for so long. I can see them so clearly. I miss my mom, I miss Chuck, I miss that teenager who thought she knew it all back then. I miss my friends who would come and stay the night and the dumb things we would do back then. I miss fighting with my sister,because she wouldn’t stay out of my room lol I miss my Granny, my cousins,my aunts and uncles when we would celebrate birthdays and have parties.. or just sit out in the front yard and visit. I miss the summertimes, and springs, the fall evenings and the smells of dinner coming from the kitchen. I have so many Christmas memories we had in this house, all the laughter that echos in m memories, and I even remember going thru the hard times with love and grace. It’s funny how a place can hold so many different emotions, and so many different memories, so many.. everything’s. This little house is so much bigger to me than what it appears on the outside. For me it holds time that has stood still, and such a big piece of my heart. THIS house is a big part of why, my then small town holds special in my heart, and who I am today. I would have never realized back then how much this house would mean to me. I wonder if the people who live here now, will even know how big of a peace of my heart still lives there, and all the memories it still holds for someone they’ve never even met. It’s funny to think that, they probably.. surely, have the same special memories, just different characters, and story lines in their memories. Man! Who knew that a house would ever hold so much for me when I was that kid growing up back then.