Slummin'

I took the kids slummin' for MLK day last week. This is an activity my parents did with myself and my siblings when we lived at home. It basically consists of showing them "where we came from".

I took them to the city where Burke went through school for undergrad. I didn't have terribly happy memories of that time in our lives...

This is where dad totaled our car, our only car. He also ended up in the hospital for a few days to recover from where the airbag deployed into his chest and abdomen.

This is where I used to work graveyard shift while pregnant, with sciatica. (This elicited a comment from Kade: "Oh, yeah. I forgot you were a nurse." Sigh.)

That happens to be the same place where I was in the hospital for a week before being transferred to another bigger hospital for two more because I was so sick.

Oh, the campus building that 2 year old Nathan said was "Daddy's house" (he practically lived there) has been torn down.

Once I got going though, there were some fun memories that came up...

This is where our first apartment was, we brought Nathan home from the hospital to this place... and didn't know what to do once we got him there.

In this apartment, you had to step over the soggy spot in the subfloor to get to the bathroom so that you didn't fall through to the first floor.

This is the window that was the perfect height for a 12 month old Nathan to peek out and watch the neighborhood's comings and goings.

This is the neighborhood that Nathan went trick or treating in for the first time. He was a rabbit, and Burke dressed up in his hunting orange and put parsley in his hat to be a carrot. (First time parent excitement, I doubt I could talk him into that now)

This is the creamery where the best ice cream in the world is served.

This is the other apartment where we lived after completing an intership in Michigan. We rented it sight unseen, and it was sans dishwasher.

It is also where we lived when Burke graduated, and got his first "real" job offer.

Maybe it wasn't so bad after all...