After two coffee drinks (one hot, one cold), a snickers bar, a snack pack of pizza flavored combos, one dead cat (sorry town of Ripley), a whole lot of wiper fluid and 16 hours of night driving we have been to Cincy and back. We had a great time seeing family, watching a beautiful couple tie the knot and visiting both of our parents new houses. Yeah, that is right, both sets of our parents are in the process of building their dream retirement home. It is really funny to see how different both are. My parents are building a luxurious log cabin in the woods with green house, heated floors and enough gizmos in that one log cabin that if the world ended they just might be able to feed and power all of Cincinnati for a couple of months. It is almost finished and we got to take a sneak peak. It was really great.
Jay's parents are building a house that have rooms already set aside for grandchildren that are currently alive and even ones that are not here yet. They are building their dream home on the back acreage of Dickie's romping grounds when he was a kid. It was great luck that he could build such a prefect house for them within view of so many happy memories he had in the past. We also got to visit their new house. It was really nice and exciting to plan where furniture is going to go and how to decorate certain rooms.
My parents have been out of my childhood home for over a year now, but Jenanne and Dickie are moving away from the farm this coming week. It was sort of bitter sweet to leave the farm for the last time, knowing that our little family will not be back. The afternoon that we left we got to do some things that I know that Dickie had been looking forward to for a while. Including feeding the catfish one last time and taking C on a tractor ride. She seemed to really enjoy both things and we got some cute pictures of Charlotte at the farm for the last time.
Goodbye old childhood homes, we are excited to create new memories! -melissa
