Short Story Half Finished Dreams - 1463 Words

Half Finished Dreams Each summer Mom and I take a trip to my Grandma’s house up North. This project is Grandma’s dream home that she has been building since my mom was a little girl. The house might have been finished faster if they hired someone to build it; however, Grandma didn’t have much money, so it was always, do what we can with the money she had at the time, this left the house half-finished for many years. On this trip, Mom and I would leave civilization and work on building this house for Grandma, even thought it was so much work, nothing beat the look on Grandma’s face when we completed a project. We were helping her dream come true. With the car packed tight with different tools and luggage, Mom and I hit the road for our†¦show more content†¦We were using water jugs for cooking, drinking, and showering. All I want to do is go to bed so I could wake up and take a nice warm shower in the morning. I am a city girl and I was very out of my element, but I tried to think of it like camping and tried to remember that I was helping my Grandma’s dream come true. We stirred from our beds that next morning to the birds chirping and the ability to finally shower. I was finally able to wash the bug spray and sweat from my body, feeling a little more civilized. I put on some bum clothes and smelled my breakfast cooking; to my surprise these eggs weren’t made on the stove but in the microwave. It sounds curious, but its how Grandma thought, she never wasted any resources. She didn’t want to dirty a pan, so we used a plastic microwaveable dish. That was how we started every morning while we talked about our plan for the day. While Mom and I were there we were going to work on one room completely. This room has been just plywood, drywall, and lots of mementos in boxes stacked to the ceiling for many years. Before we could work on finishing the room we had to empty it. 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