The Home That Love Built

This ole house and I have seen many things in 29 years.  It has been a good run overall.  We have seen weddings, babies, pets, parties, quiet times and over the top wild times.  There has been much laughter, joy and the greatest heartbreak of all within these walls.

This ole house was the first true home that Bo and I ever had.  It was joined with the first real family we ever knew.  D and I were married with Bo and Jill standing up with us.  Bo would grow up within these walls.  He would leave home for the Army from this front door, and it would be the doorway where we stood and said "Good Bye" to Jill each time she had to return to her mother.

This doorway was the sight of many loved ones entering and then leaving for their own homes.  People would come in as strangers would leave as friends.  We would shelter and care for those who were passing by, neighborhood boys, Army buddies of Bo's, Jill's friends and cheerleading squad from high school. This home would give Bo a safe haven after the war and the end of his military career. 

Jill would share the greatest news of the pending births of our grandsons in this home.  We would watch from our home as illness kept D's Mom from returning, holding fast to the last memories of her sitting in a lawn chair in our driveway laughing.  We would care for DePoppa and DeMomma many times in this home, doctor's appointments, illness, testing and watching with numb emotion as they were present at the notification of Bo's death.

This home would be the place where D and I battled his cancer and we said our last goodbyes.  Where we told each other the deepest, scariest, happiest and most thought provoking dreams, fears and joys of our lives.  It would be were we would sacrifice for one another, cry for each other and love the darkness away.  This home was part of our happiness.

We have weathered the happiest times, chasing the kids on Halloween, birthday parties, broken hearts of our children, holidays, dinners and celebrations of epic proportion.  Memories to many to name but each as precious as the last.

This house has seen me at my worst and loved me through it, it has provided shelter from the storms and quiet in times of great sadness. 

They say "all good things must come to an end".  D and Bo have gone ahead of me to Heaven, their need for this Home That Love Built is finished, Jill is married and has her own home with her family, her need for this brick and mortar is also gone.

Selling my home maybe difficult on my emotions and my heart, but........

My life has changed once again to the point that it is time to say good-bye to The Home That Love Built and start my new life with Danny in a new home.  We too will make a Home That Love Built and I carry all my memories with me for the remaining days of my life.