A Dream House for Mom
My Mom used to sketch house layouts on the backs of past month calendar pages. She knew what she wanted when that time would come! I think I have memories of seeing that back as early as 1960. My parents built several houses out of second-hand materials from older houses that others no longer wanted. But Mom always dreamed of the day she would have a NEW house made of new materials.
Later, I used that memory in my novel, Ruthe’s Secret Roses, and fulfilled Mom’s dream house by having my main character, Ruthe Veer, build her mom’s dream home while they were away on a trip.
Naturally, that didn’t help my real mom, of course, as she never got to see it. Unaware, for many years she kept on plotting and sketching how she wanted her dream house to be laid out, how large each room, and so forth.
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