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Relocating is never an easy thing. Growing up for my whole life it has always been just my mother and I and we always lived in these Irving apartments. Don't get me wrong, the apartments were very nice, safe and clean. I enjoyed living there, however, many of my friends had houses, and so I always felt a little awkward telling them that I lived in the Irving Texas apartments. I guess it was really more so because I really already felt different. Growing up with my only family being my mother, I felt a little strange. My mother always kept our apartment really nice. It was nicely furnished and she always decorated with light colors and lots of plants to give it that homey feeling. I was always very proud of my mother for working so hard to give us a good life, and of all the apartments in Irving Texas, we lived in the best ones. My mother always told me that when she first contacted a rental agent about finding apartments in Irving, that they told her these were the best and were in the best school district. I think they were right.

Well, I think my mother was right to keep us right where we were. On the day of my graduation from high school, she gave me an incredible gift. She had saved 10,000 for me to use to go to college, and since I didn't know that, I had made sure that I had already gotten paid tuition for a local school. Well, we agreed that we would figure out what to do with that money together and we decided to use it to get a house. Well, we found a great place and we put both our names on the house and we were both really excited.

As we packed up to move, I realized that I was really going to miss our Irving apartments. After all, this had been my home for almost my whole life, and as much as at one point in time I would have done anything to move, now I felt quite a bit of sadness about leaving my childhood home. We laughed and we cried as we took the last boxes out. Starting over is not a bad thing, but it can be a little emotional.