Friday, November 7, 2025

THE HOUSE THAT RAISED A FAMILY

 

 After spending a lifetime in our house…

(a wonderful place to raise a family!)

we’re in the process of getting ready to move 

from Florida…to NC.


We’ll be heading up to the mountains…

where it is our plan to stay

in our cabin to be closer to our family…

and our great granddaughter…who is due now…

any day.


So we’re slowly paring down 

those things over the years we’ve accumulated…

taking time to savor, for a moment, 

all the memories we’ve created.


It is with mixed emotions we prepare to leave…

excited at a new adventure yet to be….

while at the same time sad to leave behind

the house that raised our family.


So Deborah had a local artist…

paint for her… and me

the house we’ve spent a lifetime in:

The house that raised our family.


We’ll be taking this painting with us …to our cabin in NC

Where it will find a cherished place upon a wall

for all the world…and us…to see.


A reminder that this old house…no matter where we roam

was more than just a house to us…it was a happy home.


And if people ask, “What’s that?”

when they see it hanging on the wall …of our cabin in NC….

With a smile on our face…and a tear in our eye we’ll tell them,

“That’s the house that raised our family.”


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