The kids and I loved the new apartment. It was the whole upstairs of a two family home with stairs on the back of the house. We had a big living room. a small dining room, one big bedroom and a smaller bedroom. The kitchen was huge. The bathroom was small and had a stall shower instead of a bathtub. All the floors were covered with brown asbestos tiles. Every Saturday I scrubbed and waxed those floors and they were beautiful...for maybe two days.
The apartment was furnished with new, or practically new, furniture and appliances. The small bedroom had two twin beds and two small chests of drawers for the kids. My bedroom had a full bed, dresser and chest as well as two bedside tables. There were no closets but both bedrooms had wardrobes.
The elementary school was just a block from the house. Buddy was still in kindergarten, so I picked him up at noon every day and dropped him off at my grandmother's, just four blocks from our house. When Tammy got out of school, she walked to Granny's and I picked them up when I got off work.
Granny was about 73 years old and lived with her older sister, Aunt Dora. I worried about the kids being too much for them and constantly cautioned Tammy and Buddy to be on their best behavior. As it turned out, they loved going there and Granny and Aunt Dora fussed over and babied them, spoiling them rotten. When school was out, I had to make other arrangements. All day baby-sitting was just too much for Granny and Aunt Dora, no matter how much they loved Tammy and Buddy. So, they went back to Avanelle. Whatever would I have done those years without her!!
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