On Down the Road....

I spent the afternoon taking the backroads (or taking what my father would call a "crop tour") near the lake searching for an elusive (and now I'm convinced nonexistent) A-frame house that we were told was unlocked, uninhabited and something we should see. These roads we traveled today were my boyfriend's stomping grounds in high school and they ended up taking us right to the front door of his father's house on another smaller (but just as grand) lake.

Together the three of us cooked a delicious dinner of grilled steak, baked mac and cheese and salad. With bellies full, we settled in for what my boyfriend promised would follow dinner....a stroll down memory lane (otherwise known as checking out old photo albums to see what an adorable little tyke he was)!

We spent about two hours exploring his life from birth to about 7 (so about 3 photo albums full). I got to see where he lived, what his parents looked like back then, who the people were who were in his early life, and what kinds of things he and his family did together. Not only did I get to look through all of this with him, I got to hear his father tell us about the people in the pictures and about the places they lived.

I can't tell you how happy it made me to be let into this part of his life and how special it was for me to experience this little adventure into the past with him and his father.

We may not have found the A-frame house, but now I love them both a little bit more.