Home Sweet Home
3435 S. 58th Avenue, Cicero, IL
My brother Kevin sent this recent photo of our O’Connor house prior to moving to Riverside. Wow! So many memories.–family holidays, birthday and graduation parties, sleepovers with friends, nuns and priests streaming in and out over the years, a special treat when Aunt Betts (Daddy’s sister) visited from Arizona or California.
I loved the red brick, the sunny upstairs deck off the bedroom I shared with my sister June, and time we shared at home from school when we had chicken pox or measles or scarlet fever. Eek!
One of the best parts of living there was the birth of baby Kevin who was in such a rush to join our family, he broke one of his shoulders (if I’m remembering correctly) on the way out. I loved to hold and rock him.
Life moved on for our family a few years later when we moved to a larger home in Riverside, Illinois. But I’ll always remember the little red brick house on 58th Avenue.
Mother had saved ‘bonds’ during WWII, and that made the purchase of the house possible. Such a blessing to our family.
Do you have a special house this is or was important to you? Tell us about it.
Psalm 23:6
Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life,
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
I sure do. A similar house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Fun to hear this, Mardi. Thanks for sharing.
My Dad and my first husband were Methodist ministers and I lived in sixteen houses eleven called the ‘Parsonage’, then five other houses, six apartments and one lovely condo. I enjoyed all of them and now in the house with my daughter and son-in-law! I have always loved houses and even drew the plans for one my husband and I would build but things changed so we did not build it. My favorite house was built out of stone blocks that had been stone fences that had been built in Frankfort, Ky.but had fallen over and the owner of the large farm used the stones to build the house. It was awesome!
Love hearing this charming story from your life, Margaret.