Pap's House

I'm just sitting on Pap's couch watching SportsCenter and I love this place. Pap's Oakland home has a very modern look in most of it. It's very spacious and even though it's in Oakland he has a decent backyard. Oakland is the kind of place I want to live when I get older. I like that there are so many places to walk and so much to do. Every Sunday my grandpa walks to St. Paul's Cathedral for church. You know I'm not big on church, but I like that he can walk almost anywhere he needs to go.

The best part of this house is the basement. The basement is where my grandpa's wine cellar is and is where you can find the remnants of Herbst Road. Herbst Road is the street where Pap and Nan lived for the majority of my childhood. The basement here has the couches from Herbst Road as well as some other artifacts that only family would recognize.

Artifacts like a rocking horse and little blue chairs that had each grandchild's name on it. Little toys that I played with, that my older cousins played with, that my little cousins still play with.

The sad thing is that my young cousins Jack and Charlie don't know where those toys came. They never knew Herbst Road, and they never knew their grandmother. They know Joyce though. So at least they have her. She treats them like her own and it's a beautiful thing to see.

It's just crazy how Jack is almost 10 but he never knew Nan. I wonder if Uncle Danny ever talks about her.

I wonder about a lot of things in this family.

NP: Best Day Ever- Mac Miller