Home Sweet Home.

My parents are contemplating putting their house up for sale. This is not just their house but the home that I lived in from the time I was 7 until I was 21. This house holds so many memories I don't even know where to start. I guess the beginning is a good place. We actually closed on the house on my 7th birthday. I remember having pizza with my family on the floor with paper plates and candles. I remember my first day of 2nd grade so clearly it could have been yesterday. Walking out that door, pigtails bouncing, down the steps to the brick path. When I see pictures of that day now I see myself as an almost mirror image of my daughter,Olivia, who is in 2nd grade this year. I remember playing all day,every day, in the back yard making mud pies and climbing the clubhouse in the mulberry tree. I remember when a new family moved into the red house across the street. We peaked out our windows watching the moving van and hoping beyond hope that it was little girls that were moving in. Those girls became our friends and we spent years playing barbies and sharing secrets. I remember when our next door neighbor's had a new baby girl who was so tiny and cute. I babysat her for years and watched her grow. Just last year I went to her baby shower to celebrate her first child! I remember the first time Chris walked in the door of that house at 15. He walked in and his eyes met mine and that was pretty much all she wrote, we have been together ever since. I remember having my own baby shower on the deck overlooking the goldfish pond and surrounded by the many plants and birds that flourish there. I have images of my three girls toddling around there, snuggling with their Mimi and Poppie and frolicking in the yard with their cousins. Every holiday holds a new memory waiting to happen in the Garden Road house. I understand my parents need someplace smaller and easier to take care of in my head but my heart is sad . I know it isn't the place but the people that make the memories but it is hard to let go of the past and move toward the future. Gosh if I am already feeling this way and they are only starting to think about selling how will I deal when they actually do???