The pool at my parent's our house has undergone quite the transformation since it's original installation. Growing up, my mom was a lifeguard at a local pool where we were members. I remember spending almost every moment of every day in the water from the time I was a little girl until the summer before I turned thirteen. We moved into our house when I was in the first grade and the pool came many years later. We didn't have any warning, but when we returned from our summer vacation that year, there was a huge hole in the side yard! It was a long time before the concrete was poured and almost that entire summer, we used a giant piece of plywood next to the pool to keep from tracking in red mud. My parents planned to build a pool house for a very long time, but several years ago, they put ...
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Like Mother, Like Daughter
I got this Barbie pool for Christmas one year when I was 5 or 6. It was from Santa Claus. I remember that we spent the night with my grandparents that Christmas Eve and it was waiting for me in front of their big fireplace. I loved celebrating the holidays in that house. I think there was a Ken doll and a Barbie in a purple swimsuit, too. While my parents were building the house they live in now, we lived in a tiny trailer next door to some friends. I mean tiny like as small as our RV, tiny. My sister and I shared a room and my parents bed took up the entire room they lived in. Our television sat on top of a chest of drawers in the living room and we didn't have the space for a Christmas tree that year. On the upside, we had cable television for the first time in my life and I adored ...