I started to work today on the Roadhouse to get it ready for our next party. We’re having a Kuehner reunion next weekend, and even though there isn’t much to get ready – I still have to do a couple of things. Before I started, I had to get take down all of William’s graduation stuff. Now I know that his party was a couple of weeks ago, but it isn’t the most fun job and I just kept putting it off. Now with all his stuff off the walls and stored in the house, it was time to figure out what I needed to put back in for next weekend. The first thing was to carry the card tables and chairs out of the basement. If I had a dollar for every time I moved these tables and chairs in and out of the basement, I wouldn’t need a new job! But I think now that they’re in the Roadhouse, it looks like a really good place for them to be stored. After a lot of sweating, I got everything moved and now to work on the kids section. I wanted to make one part of the Roadhouse with kid’s toys and some board games. If it’s hot next week, the kids can go inside and just hang out and play. (Adults too!) So the next thing to do is to bring all the totes of toys out of storage and into the shed. I needed to clean some of them and man did it bring back memories. Some of these totes haven’t been open for a very long time. You know when you’re kids are small and when you walk into the room and find Buzz Lightyear flying across the room looking for Woody , and then you step on Thomas the train and soon realize with the other foot you’ve now steeped on Percy, you remember what everyone tells you that there will be a time when you won’t have any toys in the house and you’ll be wishing that you did. Well, I got out the boxes of toys tonight and even though some of them are 25 years old, I can remember the kids playing with them like it was yesterday. Now sometimes I can’t hardly remember the second part of some of my sentences in the middle of them lately, but I can remember Kyle coloring at the kitchen table or William playing with his remote control cars when they were little. Funny how that works isn’t it? But after William helped me move some things to the shed that I needed help with, he started to look also at the toys. I told him to take out anything that he didn’t want broke so that way no one had to worry about anyone playing with the toys and if they get broke. He started to make a pile, and I told him that I’ll bring him a box tomorrow so he can put in the special ones that he wants to save. To be honest, I think he liked looking at them just as much as I did. I know that sometimes there are situations that you just can’t keep everything when your kids are little, but for some reason I think just seeing a simple plastic or metal toy that you’ve loved when you were a kid is just one of the best feelings in the world.
Good memories