Blunt

My mom informed me today, after asking her, that they're putting our house on the market after the first of the year. They hope to sell it in early spring, and to move into another house by summer of next year. There goes the house I grew up in, but I am not necessarily upset over this newly acquired information. It was an inevitability, so I suppose I should deal with it. There's nothing for me to be sad about, and it's just a fact that my parents do not need 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms anymore.

The only thing that kind of bugs me is that they're moving to a more expensive neighborhood for no reason. They could purchase a small condo and relish in the small square footage, but instead they're scaling back from a 4-bedroom house to a 3-bedroom. Is that really that much of a difference?

I suppose it's my parents' money, and they can do with it as they choose, but it is a shock to hear that they're moving this quickly. This Christmas will be the last in this house, it looks like. And so it goes...