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Oct. 14th, 2004 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmic_llinConfusing news the other day. My Dad, as I may have already mentioned, is doing up my grandparents' house and planning to go live in it, now that they have moved into a flat on my Aunt's farm. My Stepfather's mother, a couple of weeks ago, had to go into hospital for a few days, and needs a pacemaker fitted. My Mum and Stepdad have decided to sell their house and buy a bigger one so that my Stepdad's mum can live with them and they can look after her. The house they want to buy is the house that my Dad is leaving, where my Mum lived briefly too before they broke up, and where my sister and I visit at weekends, and have done for the past eleven years. Just to add to the confusion, my Stepdad's ex also lived there, before my family moved there.
So yesterday my brother showed my Mum and Stepdad around my Dad's house, as potential buyers. Must have been a tad strange. I gather my mother didn't particularly like my Dad's colour scheme, but that's fine since she loves redecorating anyway.
In some ways it's a little sad, because Mum and Wil put so much time and effort into restoring their house and building an extension, and it's such a beautiful old place, and even though I'm not living there any more it is a shame that I won't have it to come back to.
But on the other hand, I really love my Dad's house, and I have lived there, at least at weekends, for over half of my life. I was really sad at the prospect of leaving there, too. So it will be nice to still have it. But very surreal to see my Mum in there. Although incidentally she chose the house in the first place.
Life is strange.
So yesterday my brother showed my Mum and Stepdad around my Dad's house, as potential buyers. Must have been a tad strange. I gather my mother didn't particularly like my Dad's colour scheme, but that's fine since she loves redecorating anyway.
In some ways it's a little sad, because Mum and Wil put so much time and effort into restoring their house and building an extension, and it's such a beautiful old place, and even though I'm not living there any more it is a shame that I won't have it to come back to.
But on the other hand, I really love my Dad's house, and I have lived there, at least at weekends, for over half of my life. I was really sad at the prospect of leaving there, too. So it will be nice to still have it. But very surreal to see my Mum in there. Although incidentally she chose the house in the first place.
Life is strange.
