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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had a clean and comfortable house.  We moved all around the world, and sometimes we had servants and sometimes we didn't.  Regardless our house was always spic and span whether mom did all the housework or the maids did.  No matter where we lived, as kids our house was the house other kids came to play at and my parents entertained their friends a lot.  It was a wonderful experience.

As an adult I think my household and one of my sisters has a household that is the same.  We have a sibling who never "got" the thing about cleaning up after yourself and so that household is very haphazard and messy.  It is hard to be in there because the house feels dirty and disorganized, and there is a high level of stress associated with everything.

That was the nice thing about our house growing up - it was a wonderful haven.  Living our lives, in nice housing sometimes with servants, sounds nice but it was difficult to move all the time and always in a new environment.  We were always having to adjust.  Yet when we moved we always had "our" home.  Our house always had "our" things in it and looked like "our" home.  Occasionally our parents would even take in families who were having difficulties and they would stay for a night or two if there was some discordance in their household.  I can't tell you how many kids (not close friends who would have been in our house otherwise) over the years came up to tell me later how much they had liked being at our house and how lucky we were.  I totally agree.

That's what my husband and I want for our household.  We're foster parents and I think we've achieved that.  I hope that the children who have been with us during terrible, turbulent times in their lives feel good about the time they spent with us and that we were their haven during a difficult period.  It isn't about things, it is about feel.[/quote]

Thank you for being foster parents! I just heard about a charity that redecorates bedrooms for foster children. Room redux, maybe? I thought it was a great idea. [/quote]

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