Do you ever see a picture and it takes you back, you
can shut your eyes and you are there.
This is one of those pictures.
Even before I shut my eyes I have such a feeling of freedom, of
happiness, of innocence
The
picture was taken in 1959 so I was 2 years old, and we moved to Schiller Park when I was 7. I consider this to be my childhood home,
where I spent my formative years. I
spent a lot of days just running in the yard with my dog, we were
inseparable.
If I close my eyes, I can hear laughter, we always
had family gatherings, dinners and parties. Cousins were always around; the
little hill in the picture of my dog and I, we thought it was huge. Funny how when you grow up things are never as big as when you were little. We would roll down it over and over again
laughing harder each time. In the back
there was an orchard and we built a fort around a tree that had blown
down. We would play out there for
hours.
The house had an upstairs, then an attic. We had a ping-pong table upstairs in one of
the front rooms. Of course back then we
did not have air conditioning and there were no screens on those windows. One particular day mom had went to the store
and left me at home with my brother and our cousin Butch. They were playing ping-pong and lo and
behold the ball went out the window. It
caught on the edge of the roof, the porch roof, so me being the littlest was
nominated to go out there and get the ball.
Can you imagine the look on my mom’s face when she pulled up the long
driveway and seen me her 3-yr old on top of the porch. It scared her to death, I wasn’t scared
until I seen how scared she was. I
thought she was going to kill my brother.
Maybe that is why I am scared to get up on ladders now. Lol
What fun memories…it is good to go back once in awhile.
I love this song, the first time I heard it I cried and all I could think about was the farmhouse. It is Miranda Lambert's song "The House That Built Me." If you would like to listen to it click here.
Do you have a picture or song that takes you back?
until next time...nel
'Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.' Proverbs 24:3-4
Absolutely : )
ReplyDeleteGreat memories.
ReplyDeleteI love the song you mentioned.
Ocassionally I'll dream about my childhood in the house I grew up in. In my dream I see all the furniture and the rooms exactly as they were "way back then".