Homes

When I was in Youngstown for family stuff, I took a drive or two to look at the places I used to live.

This house on Burkey Rd. is the first place I remember living.

We lived in an apartment before this, but I was a baby. I know where the apartment complex is (just up the street), but I couldn't remember which one my mom had pointed out to me, so I didn't take a picture.

This is my grandparent's house on Rhoda as it looks now. I never technically lived there, but it's always been my home.

This, however, is how I remember it.

A big pine tree in the corner. There were big pine bushes along the front, too, but with the tree, it's big enough. The window on the left is the room to the red room. It had red gingham curtains, and I loved to sleep in there when I visited.

This is the kitchen, where I spent a lot of my time.

I have no idea what I was presenting with Grandma in the breakfast nook. Whatever that is on the breakfast table? By the length of my hair, this was taken when I was in college.

This house is on Edenridge in the Youngstown suburb of Boardman.

We moved there when I was in kindergarten, I think. My brother Chris and I built a rather ramshackle treehouse in a giant tree out back.

We moved here, to a duplex on Meadowbrook, when my parents got divorced, when I was in third or fourth grade.

We lived in the one on the left. There was a big tree in the back that made so much shade that the ground was covered with moss, not grass. I spent a lot of time playing back there.

When I was in middle school, we moved to another house where my mom and stepdad still live. I didn't take a picture since I figured they didn't want any sightseers. :)