Back on December 14th, on the last weekend before we closed escrow on selling our old house, we thought it would be nice to let the kids see it one last time. At the time we were in our apartment, which the kids called “301” because of the apartment number, and the kids would occasionally ask about “607”, which was the street number of our old house.
Miranda: “Maybe we can go to 607.”
On the way there, we said that we were going to see 607, and that after this it wouldn’t be ours any more. We couldn’t go there again. They mulled that one over, but didn’t really react.
Miranda and Eleanor recognized the house when we got there, and we opened up the house to reveal that it was empty. They both started rushing from room to room.
Eleanor ran to the back of the house where their room used to be. She came back out and said that there was nothing there. She seemed a little upset.
Agnes and I cleaned up a little bit of the mess that the movers had left, while Miranda and Eleanor started to play in the living room. They liked wrapping themselves in the curtains and saying it was “baladanoon”. I have no idea what that means or where it came from.
Later, we came outside to take a couple of pictures.
We asked a passing neighbor to take a picture of all of us in front of the house.
By way of comparison, here’s a photo of us when we first arrived home from the hospital after the kids were born.
