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Sgoetter
September 15, 2007

Bittersweet Memories

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As many of you have discovered...I journal on most of my layouts...I journal because for me, my scrapbook is my way of sharing my life with my children and grandchildren...I want them to know who their ancestors were, what we did, our thoughts, our dreams..for us and for them. Many times I journal things that I might not say in conversation to my family..but I can leave it in writing for them to read one day. My journaling was rather long on this layout, in fact, it was so long that I had to attach it to the back of the layout...don't feel obligated to read it...it's just my thoughts to my children about when we moved from the house that they grew up in....
Journaling reads:
Leaving our home of 24 years was a bittersweet event. We moved into this house in July 1981. The builders had completed it a few months before we bought it. Housing was MUCH cheaper in the early ‘80s. We only paid $83,000 for this 1900 square foot house. After 24 years, we sold our home for more than 3 times what we originally paid for it! By 2005, housing prices had really soared. Of course, it really helped us that we sold only 6 months after Hurricane Ivan hit. Our home was one of the few houses that sustained minimal damage. God truly watched over us during the storm.

You three were 2, 4, and 6 when we moved in. I have so many special memories from our years there. This is where we lived when you all learned to ride your bikes and roller skate. We put in a pool in 1984 and you all learned to swim that summer. Some of the wonderful memories I have include….Playing in the pool as a family…great pool moments when your friends came to visit, and always a great time when other family members came for a visit, the bricks on the back of the garage where Kimmer wrote her name…Traci learning to hula hoop and jump on the pogo stick….Matthew learning to dive and filming his history project while we were gone…and he put the canoe in the pool…the excitement on your faces the year Santa brought the trampoline ….campouts… campfires… picnics… birthday parties…. smiling happy faces… and some tears. Adding on the Florida Room in 1991 meant that you all had a room just for entertaining your friends…television, VCR, and lots of movies.

One thing that I really hated to leave…and it would only be special to me…would be the arrow Kimmer drew on the hearth one Christmas. Our Christmas traditions when you were small included reading the Christmas story from the Bible…then we would read “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” (and as you got older we’d try to say the story from memory), then each of you would sit down and make a sign with your name on it….that was so Santa would know where to put YOUR presents. I guess Kimmer was afraid that her sign would be moved…because she drew an arrow right on the bricks on the hearth! She did a great job with that PERMANENT magic marker….cause that arrow was still there when we moved…more than 20 years after she did it!!

Yes, we had so many great times….that house was HOME! I was so torn about moving, but once the moving van pulled out and we moved all our “things” into the new house….it became “HOME”…..because the truth is….”Home is where the heart is” and a house is just a building to hold the memories while you are there. I’ve rarely missed the old place….which really surprised me…but leaving our home of 24 years was definitely bittersweet.

If you read all of this....God Bless You! Thanks for looking!


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