The odd things we think and then remember...

When I was growing up overseas we lived on compounds, groups of houses surrounded by walls, self contained towns. Not all the houses on the compounds were the same, some had different style houses: bungalows, two stories, wide rooms, open concepts like any houses here. I often stayed at my best friends house, Ithilote, she live on a compound in a house with large rooms in a comfortable arrangement and on the second floor there was a large square place which the rooms were placed around, it was there we would fold the blankets after a sleep over or would pass through to get to her room or our many snack runs to the kitchen. I loved her house, not only the fact that she was there, and we shared one of the most natural companionships I have know in my life, but the lay out of the house and the feeling i got standing on that carpeted landing infront of all the rooms. It was there that for some odd reason, I could see myself (obviously with by beau of the time) living in this house and raising children. Children who have always been a part of my life and one of my biggest dreams. And its looking back that for the first time I could imagine actually having children and seeing them run around the house and hearing an almost echo of words. I always knew i would have them, i want them badly enough its just a matter of when but it was very odd to imagine and for a second if not less, be in the moment of seeing them run...it its strange what you can remember from one silly picture. It wasnt even a picture of my mate or her house, it was picture of my dog when she was a puppy, i was a young girl and don't remember it but all of a sudden i thought of my friends house and can remember picturing a young pup around the little ones....
~Kitty