If these old walls could talk...

Dad and Mom have decided to tear our house down and build a new one back up, with three bathrooms instead of one... Hmmm, doesn't make sense now they're the only ones there, does it? I didn't think so either. But, this is what they want to do, it's their house, they deserve it.

We kids are all kinds of excited thinking of what this will mean when we go home to visit with our own families; but we are also a bit nostalgic missing how things used to be. This was our kind of "normal:"

• Waiting in line on Christmas morning to see what Santa had brought, there was only one bathroom and of course we had to wait for all to filter through it before we could see our haul...
• Showers starting at an unheard of hour in our friend's homes, just so we all could get through the shower and be ready by the time school started.
• On the return portion of a jaunt into the city, by the time we would hit Roosevelt, we would start calling out our turn to hit the bathroom. (i.e. "I get the bathroom first!" I'm second!" I'm going to pee my pants, I'm third!".... you get the idea...)
• No privacy while in the shower, the door was ALWAYS unlocked! (What if someone needed to use the other facilities located in the same room?)

Now I realize quite a few of you might find this appalling, even embarrassing, but like I said, this was our "normal"...

Now Mom and Dad are disrupting our normal and all I can think of to say is Thank You!!!