In 1984, we bought a wonderful half acre lot in Meridian, Idaho. George bought me a huge pad of erasable graph paper and I went to town drawing and erasing, and crumbling and throwing away, and drawing and erasing my dream home. It had to be practical, fit our needs, be aesthetically pleasing, and fit into our budget. My favorite pastime for the entire year, was looking at pictures of houses in magazines, driving around looking at houses, reading about houses, and of course, designing the house. However my best information came from living in houses. We had lived in Idaho for 10 years at that time and had lived in 5 houses. I knew what I did and didn't like in those houses.
My 6 children received only the most basic of care while I was obsessed with this project. And by the time we started building, I was expecting our seventh. I got the plans approved by Meridian City, got bids from subcontractors and nagged them until the house was done. It was completed in 3 months and we moved in two weeks before our last child, Stephanie was born. I really loved that house but that year the bottom fell out of real estate and George was offered a job in Salt Lake so we sold the house and moved to Utah. Emotionally, I didn't think I could move out of the home I had created, so I just loaded up the kids and left George to do the packing, moving and cleaning.
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