Tyler Peaster - Childhood Home

 Childhood Home

(#1, p. 143)

I’ve moved nine different times in my life. While I live in Jonesboro and have lived in Jonesboro since I was 13 years old, my childhood town is Lake City AR. While I lived within many different houses in Lake City, my childhood home is 705 Faye Street, Lake City.

The house was pretty average in terms of size, there was a living room, a kitchen, three bedrooms (one was made into an office), and one bathroom. The best place to start would be my bedroom. It wasn’t tiny, but it was fairly small. In the room, I had a Spongebob TV, a bed, a desk, and probably some more stuff that has slipped from my memory in recent years. My parent’s bedroom was a little larger than mine, and if memory serves me correctly, their bed took up nearly all the space in the bedroom. The office was a third bedroom that was transformed into an office. One side of the room was the family computer and its components, and the other half was a somewhat organized storage area. I remember the smell of the office, it wasn’t a bad smell, but I can’t quite describe it. Thinking about the smell fills me with nostalgia. I remember the bathroom very well, it was really small and cramped. There was a window really high up, you wouldn’t be able to see into it, but I remember as a child I was always worried someone would somehow be able to see me through it. The kitchen wasn’t tiny, but it wasn’t big either. We had a very fragile table. It actually broke; one time when Garret Grimes came over, I handed him my DSI and he placed it on the table, then it broke. Garret was so freaked out, but that table was gonna break any second, he just happened to set something on it. The living room was pretty small, there was a recliner, a small couch, and a Television. My childhood friends and I used to lean back so far in the recliner we’d flip the entire thing. It was the funniest thing to us. 

Faye Street was the last house before some large personal things began happening within my family that would make me grow up a bit early, so I’ve always felt really nostalgic for that house. I remember all the fond memories I had there, and I will cherish them forever.