Awesome Night

Tonight was an awesome night. After work I had dinner with my parents at their house. It was good, healthy food. I love eating with them, because the conversation is always great and my mom is a fantastic cook. Then Dad and I borrowed a truck from his friend, Doug. We chatted with Doug and his wife for awhile, which was really enjoyable as well. When we were in the truck, Dad realized that Doug has 9 garage door openers. Don't see that everyday. (He's a builder so surely those are for the houses he's working on.)

We borrowed Doug's truck because we were bringing some furniture from my parents' house to my house. You see, we're getting ready to sell LucciHouse. I know it's a very sad thing, but I'm not thinking about the sadness just yet. I will once it's all said and done. Right now I'm just focusing on all the work that needs to be done. LucciHouse is an awesome house and we just need to show it off. That means doing all the good things I've learned from Design to Sell. We're reducing clutter, rearranging to best showing off the space, and removing personalized style so it will appeal to a wider audience. In order to do all this, we needed some items and lucky for us, we could get them from Mom and Dad. So one trip with the truck and we've got a fully furnished front room that's far better than when we started. When everything is all done, I'll post pictures.

After getting the front room arranged, Mom suggested we head to Sonic for a late night treat. It's a gorgeous summer night here so we rolled down the windows and cruised. OK, so we didn't actually cruise. We just drove to Sonic and hung out drinking milkshakes and limeades. Conversation was great and we all laughed a lot. During a pause in conversation my Dad said that he doesn't know what they're going to do without us around. It made me sad. We are all so close and we love being together. With everyone moving away, it's going to change things. But I don't believe any of us will grow apart. Karen and Jason are the example - they moved to Germany but we still talk all the time. Mom and Dad have gone to visit at least 3 times in the past year. I'm sure the distance will change things, but nothing will change the closeness that we feel.

I am so lucky that my family is so wonderful. I couldn't ask for anything better. I know that my personal success is a direct reflection on how I was raised. My parents have loved me unconditionally all my life and that's enabled me to do so much. I'm so thankful that as an adult, I've been able to grow into a friendship with my parents. We can enjoy each other to such a great extent because my parents have given me the space I need to be my own person. I know this couldn't have been easy, because I see so many of my friends parents fail to do this. Again, I am so lucky. I love my family so much and tonight just magnified how much I'm going to miss having them so close.

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