Today is the closing on my mom and dad's house in Powder Springs, GA. They moved to Mt. Vernon, Illinois back in August of '07 even though the house hadn't sold yet.I guess over the past seven months, even though I've been to the new house in Illinois several times, it hasn't really been "done". While they were gone I've run over there to check on the sale flyer's, turned pool pump off and on, yada yada blablabla. So in my reality everything was still "ok" until today. I took another look around, made sure we got everything out of the house (because whatever is left after closing legally belongs to the New Yorkers) and as I walked from room to room I began to bawl like a little baby. Granted I live 10 miles down the road and I can come see it any time I want to, some just don't understand that as much as I moved around as a kid this was the one house that I thought was home. My parents were in this house for over 15 years and for the Dixon family...that's a long time. I finished high school in this house, I got engaged, married and had two of my three babies in this house. There are lots and lots and years and years of memories in this house. Holidays, birthdays, pool parties and cook outs.
This was the house that I wanted my kids to grow up coming to and having a house that was Nana and Papa's "Home" since I never really had one. Moving every two and a half to three years it's kind of hard to have a "Home." Anyway, today has been a very emotional day not to mention that my hormones are running crazy now a days anyway. I'm happy for my parents but I'm still sad that a chapter, a very long chapter, in my life is finished.
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I imagine that was very hard. It is hard to be away from your family. XOXOXO
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