Change

It was 1965 when my parents moved 

our family to Wessington Springs...

I was one year old and hardly remember 

anything about our first house there,

{except for the Ginormous trampoline

in the back yard!!}

I think I was 16 when

my siblings told me

it was just a double size

bed spring!! :)

Isn't it funny how

everything was bigger

when you were a child??

I was around 4 when we moved from 

town to the country...

I don't remember that 

moving day either,

but my memories start at that 

house around that age...

Last week we moved our 

grand-daughters and daughter

to their new home...

Domino is 5 and Zelda is 2

it will be interesting

what they will remember

from their first house

and their first move....

I know Domino will remember the carrots

she picked the night before we left...

and the garden her and her mother planted together!!

I know ZZ will remember 

the great visits her and her Grandpa

had in the back yard...

We will all remember 

the ginormous mulberry tree

that acted as a canopy to the 

back yard!  

The girls will all miss their back yard!!

"All changes, even the most longed for, 

have their melancholy;

 for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves;

we must die to one life before we can enter another.

                                            Anatole France

The new, safer neighborhood

and 

the newly remodeled apartment

will be the source

of many new 

happy memories!!

I bet Domino will

remember the ride in the moving truck...

she'll probably remember it 

as an 18 WHEELER!!

I know I'm going to 

remember the three flights

of steps up to their apartment!!

I think Emily will remember

packing and unpacking about a hundred boxes!!

She and her friends are going to love 

entertaining in the beautiful new open floor plan!!

Brand new appliances including a dishwasher,

cabinets galore, and one big open space for 

the family 

all make for one happy Mama!!

It was a gorgeous fall day,

and we all worked really hard

at moving furniture and boxes

and wrangling small children!

At the end of the day 

I don't know who was more 

exhausted the adults or the kids?

I do know the smiles on 

our girl's faces when we left

them to set up their new place

was priceless!!

Grandma and Grandpa went home to the farm

to sleep it off....

"We should'a got us some BenGay Ma!"

"Yep... Goodnight Pa!"

Good Night Girls!

May you share many happy memories

in your new home,

and may this change

be a new beginning to a 

a blessed chapter in all of your lives!!

Love,

Lisa

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

                                                        Mahatma Gandhi

{sharing with Sherry at Home Sweet Home}