Thursday, June 6, 2013

a letter

Dear matching blue and white cars,

Please stop parking in front of the old house. Please stop sitting there looking, pointing and talking.
Please stop driving by multiple times a week. It makes us feel like we can't call the old house our home.
We do not need your approval for the variety of flowers we plant, for who sleeps in which room, for the wallpaper we take down, for any of the changes we make.

Please know that we would never compromise the beauty, age or period of the old house. Please know we will not forget the life and lives this old house knows. We will always honor and respect its history.

We loved this house when we pulled into the driveway last July, and we need the opportunity to feel like it is our home. Before, weeks would go by without a blue or white car parked, and I would start feeling that way. But now, when I float past the front windows and you are there, it feels like being cut off at the knees. And we start over again. We started over 10 months ago. It has been a hard enough journey for our family.

Please give us some space to feel like we are making the old house a home that is our own.

All the best...


1 comment :

  1. I didn't realize this was going on as frequently as it is.. They need to be more discreet about it and reduce the occurrences.. Sorry to hear this. There really is nothing you can do, except for accepting it in some way I guess. If the old man is along, it is certainly giving him pleasure I'm sure, but I guess if it becomes too bothersome, you could call and report the vehicles as not from the neighborhood, etc...

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