One of the intriguing, but also something that made us not want to buy the home initially, was the fact that one of the bedrooms, Karla’s room, looked almost directly into a room in the house directly beside… yours. But at the time we looked into buying the home, how were we to know that you and Karla would come to be bestie’s? The proximity was a huge deterrent, no doubt… but years later we looked back and realized it was the best decision we’d ever made seeing how your friendship had blossomed over the years.
I hated the way I’d seen you raised. Your Dad wasn’t really around all that much. I tried not to judge. I tried not to make assumptions, but it was different as I watched you tag along on our family outings. We loved having you, loved it! We wouldn’t trade it for the world, but that didn’t mean, as I watched you licking your ice cream while being out with us, it didn’t make me wonder what you were missing at home.