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Tag: Leaving Raleigh

Leaving Raleigh – the kitchen

Kitchen of Raleigh house, March 2015These pictures are the room where we really spent most of our time. You could call it the kitchen, but it was really not just a kitchen. It was a living room/kitchen/breakfast nook with a fireplace and it was (for us) a very big room. There is a formal dining room and a separate, more formal living room where we did a few things, but this is the room where we lived. It belonged more to Lorena and Christian than Kelly and I because they were almost always there. Lorena worked in the kitchen and the laundry room next to it while Christian studied at the bar across from the stove, often with his cat Rubix laying on his arms.

Kitchen of Raleigh house (where the sofas were) March, 2015We entertained mostly in this room, too. It was the place where we had the most seating, so people gravitated there. We did not entertain frequently, but when we did, it was usually with a pretty good sized crowd from church or school or both. The formal dining room was too small, so we set up tables that ran from the area in front of the fireplace all the way past the breakfast nook.

Lorena absolutely loved the setup in the kitchen. The professional stove and hood are really nice, but the view across the lawn to trees in the back was spectacular, especially in the fall when the leaves were changing. With a fire burning in the fireplace and Christian practicing his guitar, it brings back many fond memories. We did a lot of our homeschool reading on the sofas or just hung out together there to talk. Always with Lorena in the kitchen. She loved to be there and misses it a lot already.

Betty Blonde #278 – 08/11/2009
Betty Blonde #278
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Feeling a little melancholy today…

Christian eating breakfast at IHOP in Garner with Lorena after a day of moving in March 2015It might be at least partially because I am listening to Kelly’s really excellent Enya channel on Pandora, but there are lots of additional reasons to feel melancholy and nostalgia. We just received two very touching emails about some dear friends in their very last days on this earth. The are the same era as Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah. They have been good and faithful people all their lives so there is joy in this, too, but we are hearing this kind of news way to often these days. It is hard to lose those who have been an example and an encouragement in all the right ways over the entire course of my life.

Lorena sent me a series of pictures of the empty rooms of what was our home for the last seven years. I am going to put those images and write about each one of them a little. I realize it is an act of selfishness, but I just want to get some notes down for the record. Lorena took the picture in this post at the IHOP near our house the day Christian flew from North Carolina back to Arizona. We ate many Saturday breakfasts there before heading over to the Hunt or Hill libraries to study. It is fitting that Christian and Lorena had one more chance to do that before they left.

Betty Blonde #277 – 08/10/2009
Betty Blonde #277
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