Daily Digital Download: Miranda Lambert ‘The House That Built Me’ [VIDEO]

I've been thinking about my Dad a lot lately. 5 years ago around Easter he was diagnosed with small cell carcinoma...brain cancer. 5 short weeks later, on May 5th he passed away in my sisters arms. He was the strongest, gentlest man I ever knew. I miss him every day. This song from Miranda Lambert makes me think of him.

He built the house we grew up in the year I was born. There were a lot of memories made in that old house. Sheets hung from the clothes line in the back yard became forts. We had a lemonade stand on the front sidewalk so we would have money for an afternoon matinee in the summer. Family reunion picnics where we would set my Great Grandmother in a lawn chair on the front lawn and let all her grand children and great grandchildren line up so she could hold our hands and sing a German song while we jumped and danced in front of her (she was 104 when she passed). The empty lot next to our house on First Avenue was a gathering place for the neighborhood kids where we would play "Kick the Can" and "Hide and Seek" and a somewhat friendly game of tag or baseball; only coming in after the street lights came on and parents started yelling for us from the back step.

We say we long for the simpler times but we have our memories to look back on and smile. I wish our children today could live as simple as we did in the houses that built us!

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