That Old House
This is my childhood home. This house could tell many of story. My parents live in my grandmas house so they put this one on the market two weeks ago and closed on it yesterday its a blessing for them and it is just a house but it still makes me a little sad. This house is a two bed room ranch that housed all 8 of us at least up to my senior year of high school. I have five brothers and sisters we are all adopted different ones coming at different times. When I was in fourth grade my two youngest sisters were the last to come they were my other grandmothers foster kids and so the courts thought it was in there best interest if they came to live with us permanently(sp), they already knew us and spent lots of time with us so it wasnt too much of an adjustment. My parents moved their bedroom back to the master bed room and put us four girls in the basement before the walls went up to make official bedrooms all four of our beds were side by side. When the walls went up the basement was divide into three rooms on the side that was not the laundry room side. Two bedrooms and the closet and play area was in between the two rooms my sisters and I affectionately dubbed this room the "middle". The ceiling in the basement was never done so noise always rose up to living room where mom and or dad would kick the floor with their foot. "Quiet down there girls!!!" We were growing up when cabbage patch kids first came out and we all had flannel night gowns with a cabbage path kid on the front. One night my older sister decided she was going to turn off the light before I was ready for bed I whipped the my night gone over my head to whip at her and it sparked before you knew all four of us girls met in the "middle" and turned off all the lights and spent the next few minutes making our night gowns spark,laughing up a storm, next thing we heard THUMP THUMP THUMP...girls dont make me come down there go to bed! Now the boys they dug a hole to china and struck water instead. We had some hard times in that house too but in the end the things we still talk about at family get togethers are the silly things us kids did in that house. I will miss it but thankful we all still live close.