Before You Downsize, Listen to My Mother

There were several reasons she gave for not wanting to move. Those reasons make a lot more sense now that I’m a senior. She said the house had too many memories, and she didn’t want to give them up. She said she loved walking around the house while remembering the Christmases and the family parties. She said she loved the rose bushes and other plants she had planted in her garden over the years — and she could remember where each one came from. She remembered the day she and my Dad bought the house and how excited they had been about raising their family in it. She said the house still had the spirit of everyone who lived there. <a href="https://medium.com/crows-feet/before-you-downsize-listen-to-my-mother-7864fa4a43b9">Website</a>