This is so beautiful! I was so lucky to have grown up in a family with those life values. I am now 76 and looking back appreciate my parents now more then ever. Thankyou!!!
😭 you have me FULL of emotion! You could not have published this at a better time. I felt like you were speaking right to me. Right now, my son is 4, my daughter 1, considering adding more. Our home is small, basement unfinished. Our kitchen island is half-built - it will get finished but it takes time. Walls need re-painting, the list goes on. You know. We too have been talking ideas of additions. But budget isn't easy.
But I know not only from the words you have so beautifully written, but from my own imperfect childhood home, that it really isn't the size or shape of your home that matters. Those mundane memories, the meals shared, that's what has stuck with me.
I'm so glad this landed with you and found you at the right place, right time. I think it's only natural that we as parents want to give the world to our kids. And we can get caught sometimes thinking that what that means is a bigger, nicer house or better things. When in reality, it's the memories and relationships that truly matter in the end.
Enjoy those fleeting, hard, beautiful childhood years! They truly are some of the very best you will ever know.
You paint a wonderful picture and I'm sure your children's memory of their childhood will be positive... They won't care what the floor was like 😜. I hope some of your readers have children young enough to use your story as inspiration ❤️
Erin you and your husband have built such a beautiful and loving home for your family. We are also in the same situation, although now our second child has only just moved out of home at 24! (Plus other life changing things that have created more time for us). Only now do we have time to start making improvements to our home.
I look at it this way, had we done all those improvements, spent all that money and all that time doing, we would have missed out on all the time and holidays and special moments with our kids. I know we made the right decision.
This is so beautiful! I was so lucky to have grown up in a family with those life values. I am now 76 and looking back appreciate my parents now more then ever. Thankyou!!!
I love that, Vicki- so beautiful!
This is the best! Our 18 yr old has just left home and I’m feeling exactly what you’re describing here! Thanks for reminding us what truly matters!
Absolutely. Hugs to you during this time of transition; such a blessing and honor to get them to adulthood, but so hard to say good-bye to what was.
😭 you have me FULL of emotion! You could not have published this at a better time. I felt like you were speaking right to me. Right now, my son is 4, my daughter 1, considering adding more. Our home is small, basement unfinished. Our kitchen island is half-built - it will get finished but it takes time. Walls need re-painting, the list goes on. You know. We too have been talking ideas of additions. But budget isn't easy.
But I know not only from the words you have so beautifully written, but from my own imperfect childhood home, that it really isn't the size or shape of your home that matters. Those mundane memories, the meals shared, that's what has stuck with me.
I want to thank you for this post. ♥️
I'm so glad this landed with you and found you at the right place, right time. I think it's only natural that we as parents want to give the world to our kids. And we can get caught sometimes thinking that what that means is a bigger, nicer house or better things. When in reality, it's the memories and relationships that truly matter in the end.
Enjoy those fleeting, hard, beautiful childhood years! They truly are some of the very best you will ever know.
You paint a wonderful picture and I'm sure your children's memory of their childhood will be positive... They won't care what the floor was like 😜. I hope some of your readers have children young enough to use your story as inspiration ❤️
I hope so too. Thank you so much for reading.
Erin you and your husband have built such a beautiful and loving home for your family. We are also in the same situation, although now our second child has only just moved out of home at 24! (Plus other life changing things that have created more time for us). Only now do we have time to start making improvements to our home.
I look at it this way, had we done all those improvements, spent all that money and all that time doing, we would have missed out on all the time and holidays and special moments with our kids. I know we made the right decision.