Home 'Then And Now

Home, was where you went at six pm. for supper, for lunch when there was no school, and you were out all morning playing. Where special breakfasts were served on weekends. Where you made your cold cereal breakfasts before going to school from the third grade on. Home was where you always found clean clothes one a week, sometimes twice on your bed to be folded and put away in your dresser drawers or put on hangers and hung up by you. It was where your mother and father lived. Where your mother cared for you when sick, Father handed you a few bucks 'on the sneak' Friday night he really didn’t have when you were going out with your girlfriend now wife. Where you were told. "Of course, you could come back home after our enlistment was up in the service." Where fifty dollars left on your end table in your bedroom was still there after ten weeks of basic training. Home, wasn't such a bad place to have been then, or now, when I think about.