If it works, I will be posting photos of our three Boston homes. The first one is on Vincent Avenue in Belmont, the second one is on Hurd Road in Belmont, and the last one is our Oak Street house in Needham. A couple of weekends ago, Paul and I took a drive down memory lane. We visited each of our old neighborhoods in Boston and couldn't believe how unchanged they were. The only thing that was different was that the houses seemed soooo much smaller than we remember them. It is hard to believe that in each house we hosted our annual New Year's Day chili-bakeoff, multi-family Thanksgiving dinners, the neighborhood Halloween Party, Christmas caroling parties for the neighborhood, family Christmas talent shows, 4th of July lobster/clam bake and baseball game. It seems as if each house was filled with wonderful friends and family most of the year. None of the houses could have been over 2200 square feet, if that, and yet we always managed to squeeze in lots and lots of our dear friends. The kitchens were small, but we produced some pretty memorable meals in them----food to feed an army. Never once did we say, "can't do it here, our house is too small." And our friends were the same way about opening up their homes to us. One neighbor hosted all the kids and made sugar cookies each Christmas, we had a blow-out New Year's Eve at another house, and many, many game nights with friends. Such fun times, and we hope to recreate those in our New York City condo which may rival all of them for being the smallest. I hope the lesson we have learned over time is that size really doesn't matter!
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Mother, we all know that size totally matters! I can't believe the needham house. I wish they still had the red door!! It looks just like i remember it. I wish you could have sneaked some pictures of the inside. There were some great mems made in that house. Remember the first day we moved in there and patrick and megs drank the pee pee water? Lots of games of the pillow game down in the basement. Love the poles in the basement. I think that's how my love of pole dancing started!! Thanks for the pictures. They are fun to look at.
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