Slice of Life - Stories of the Staircase

 

I love participating in Slice of Life, started by Two Writing Teachers and writing a story, reflection, or musing at least once a week.

 

We are coming up on our 10 year mark of living in this house.  We moved back to this area in August of 2004 and built our home while living in a nearby apartment.  We moved in right after Christmas of that year after a doozy of a snowstorm.  I was thinking about all the things I love about this house and thought of our staircase.  It splits at the landing, with one set going into the kitchen, and the other set into the foyer.  It has been the location for many photos.  I thought I'd tell its stories.

 

The stairs were fun to play on even as they were being built:

 

 

The girls were young enough when we moved in to play dress up and pose on the stairs:

 

 

 

First day of school pictures were taken at the base of the stairs in the foyer:

 

 

 

 

It's a great place to sit and talk, eat, and drink during parties:

 

 

 

 

 We love to sit and play with Ben or cuddle with him on the stairs:

 

 

 

We had many pre-dance parties at our house when our girls entered high school, so the stairs were the perfect place to take group photos:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was even fun to take pictures of parties from the top of the stairs:

 

 

 

 

 It became the place to take our group photos of Friends' Thanksgivings:

 

 

 

 

 



 One of my favorite Friends' Thanksgiving pictures was the two generations of Miami U. girls:

 

 All the cousins (and Uncle T.J.) gathered on the stairs in 2012:

 

 

 

The staircase is good for lounging, even all dressed up:

 

 New Year's Eve Party gatherings:

 

Ben likes to rest his back legs on a higher step than his front legs.  He also likes to sit up on the top step and look out the foyer window:

 Sometimes it's hard to choreograph an arrangement on the stairs.  Here, Tyler, the senior class president in 2010-11, tries to get the student council to get in their places for a photo.  He's not having much luck:

 

The staircase makes for a perfect grand entrance.  Libby ready for her senior prom:

 

Last, but not least, the stairs are fun to goof around on:

 

 

 

 

We have made a lot of memories in our house during the last 10 years and have made good use of those stairs!  I'm looking forward to what the future years bring!