My grandparent’s house is being sold this weekend. While I’m sad that it’s the end of an era, I’m excited that another family will get to make memories in this special house. I spent a lot of time at my grandparents over summers and weekends growing up. I have so many good memories but these are the ones that have stood out the most:
Hiding in the bathroom closet during games of Hide and Go Seek with my Grandpa
Carving my name in literally everything, because I saw my dad’s initials in the dresser
Eating pizza for every meal
Milkshakes being made on the regular
Granny’s afternoon snack of a big tomato sliced on a plate
Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy every night
My grandpa cleaning the kitchen every night after we went to bed
Endless games of rummy
Dressing up in Granny’s nightgowns, pretending I was a princess
New Years Eve and ginger ale and dancing
Playing Barbies underneath the end tables and imagining they lived in a huge castle
Jumping across the creek, until someone would fall in
Tie Dying t-shirts being a family affair & using the water hose to remove the extra ink
Walking to church every Sunday morning with Granny to help out with Sunday school
Using a hairdryer to pretend to catch speeders going around the block
Pulling the buds off the magnolia tree in the front yard and pretending to “cook them” as green beans
Her jewelry box, the white stools and all the tea cups
Playing bank and flower shop and grocery store and completely tearing up the entire house
Helping with Christmas tree decorations and having to add so many more strands of lights, because it wasn’t lit up enough
The twin beds and slumber parties with my cousin