Goodbye Palmyra Rd
In family related news, my parents sold their home and moved out as of today.
I moved there when I was 7 years old, wide eyed and excited because I was getting my own room and bathroom, and mom let me pick out the wallpaper boarder. I can't count how many happy memories of fun birthday parties and holidays were spent there. My parents always made me feel special and that would have happened inside of the walls at the house on Palmyra or wherever we lived. Memories of how every single night Dad would tuck me into bed and wake me up every morning, I never used an alarm clock. I remember eating plenty of hamburger helper in that kitchen and sugar cookies with homemade icing. I loved when we would have a fire inside or outside. When we got the pool I was about 10. Many of pool parities happened in middle and high school with friends. Ultimately it was a youth pool party Wes was hosting at my parents house where we met when I was home visiting from pharmacy school. I brought friends home there from college and boyfriends. We had graduation parties for Michael and I there for high school and college. And then the ultimate party on the court, my wedding reception. It was where all my kids had their first birthday parties. And where I watched them feel like there were in Disneyland playing with all the toys and cousins. Its younger years purpose was meant to be a safe and secure place to let us grow, learn, cry and laugh. In later years it has housed many missionaries which has lead to its ultimate purpose. My parents thought they would grow old there but the Lord had different plans. He said, sell it and use this house to free you to give and go. None of those bricks (though my Dad did build it) ever meant anything, except maybe that spot on the court next to our old strawberry patch where my brother and I put our hand prints in the concrete. I support the reason behind the move and the need to leave the house behind. In a normal way I will grieve the thought of never returning there as it housed so many memories, but the memories I will always have. Now go make new memories Mom and Dad. As Matthew said, "but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal"
And for fun because I channel fun times and sad times like a true artist and write them into lyrics to already existing songs.... (I get it from my grandfather) Here is "Goodbye Palmyra Rd" to the tune of "Goodbye Endland's Rose" by Elton John. No need for feedback, I won't quick my day job ; )
Goodbye Palmyra Rd
May we never grow apart
You were the space that made itself
A place within our hearts
We called you home for many years
Twenty six to be exact
Now you belong to someone else
I can't deny the fact
REFRAIN
And it seems to me much of our life
was spent within your walls
Or on the front porch with the sunset when Dad would call
And our handprints will always fall there
On the court a 97' seal
The strawberry patch ended long before
Your legend never will
Pool parties and holidays
Wedding receptions are just a few
Of the memories we'll carry
For where our family became a new
And even though we try
The truth brings us to tears
All our words can't express
The joy you brought us through the years
REFRAIN
Goodbye Palmyra Rd
Your where Ive laughed and cried
You were the place that I met Wes
Learn to drive, oh what a ride
Goodbye Palmyra Rd
20 acres I grew up on
My kids first birthdays were held here
And graduations celebrated a ton
REFRAIN
I moved there when I was 7 years old, wide eyed and excited because I was getting my own room and bathroom, and mom let me pick out the wallpaper boarder. I can't count how many happy memories of fun birthday parties and holidays were spent there. My parents always made me feel special and that would have happened inside of the walls at the house on Palmyra or wherever we lived. Memories of how every single night Dad would tuck me into bed and wake me up every morning, I never used an alarm clock. I remember eating plenty of hamburger helper in that kitchen and sugar cookies with homemade icing. I loved when we would have a fire inside or outside. When we got the pool I was about 10. Many of pool parities happened in middle and high school with friends. Ultimately it was a youth pool party Wes was hosting at my parents house where we met when I was home visiting from pharmacy school. I brought friends home there from college and boyfriends. We had graduation parties for Michael and I there for high school and college. And then the ultimate party on the court, my wedding reception. It was where all my kids had their first birthday parties. And where I watched them feel like there were in Disneyland playing with all the toys and cousins. Its younger years purpose was meant to be a safe and secure place to let us grow, learn, cry and laugh. In later years it has housed many missionaries which has lead to its ultimate purpose. My parents thought they would grow old there but the Lord had different plans. He said, sell it and use this house to free you to give and go. None of those bricks (though my Dad did build it) ever meant anything, except maybe that spot on the court next to our old strawberry patch where my brother and I put our hand prints in the concrete. I support the reason behind the move and the need to leave the house behind. In a normal way I will grieve the thought of never returning there as it housed so many memories, but the memories I will always have. Now go make new memories Mom and Dad. As Matthew said, "but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal"
May we never grow apart
You were the space that made itself
A place within our hearts
We called you home for many years
Twenty six to be exact
Now you belong to someone else
I can't deny the fact
REFRAIN
And it seems to me much of our life
was spent within your walls
Or on the front porch with the sunset when Dad would call
And our handprints will always fall there
On the court a 97' seal
The strawberry patch ended long before
Your legend never will
Pool parties and holidays
Wedding receptions are just a few
Of the memories we'll carry
For where our family became a new
And even though we try
The truth brings us to tears
All our words can't express
The joy you brought us through the years
Goodbye Palmyra Rd
Your where Ive laughed and cried
You were the place that I met Wes
Learn to drive, oh what a ride
Goodbye Palmyra Rd
20 acres I grew up on
My kids first birthdays were held here
And graduations celebrated a ton
REFRAIN
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