The Bubble Popped My parents were sitting in the basement of our house in new york.

by facmeendiaz (student)

The Bubble Popped

My parents were sitting in the basement of our house in new york. No this wasn’t the type of basement you are imagining, my father and grandfather renovated it into a living quarters, with a kitchen, loft, bedroom and bathroom. they were discussing our next step, this was not to long after my second and last sister Samantha was born and keeping three kids in the same little basement was not the utopia my mother dreamt of living in at the time. so with much thought they moved to the place where they spent their honeymoon; Florida

I remember my mom as a very happy person when I was growing up in New York, I attended a school two maybe three blocks down from our house in Queens and my fondest memory of it was seeing my moms bright smile waiting for me at the end of the gates after school. My mom was a very busy women though in the daytime she would be at work and other days at college which she would bring me to at times but I cannot remember it very clearly.

At night she was a hardworking mother who beckoned ...