House growing smaller

As us girls grew in size the house seemed to be shrinking. We just didn't have near as much room as we use to. Mom and dad decided we needed to make the house a little bigger. They built on to the back of the house---the whole width of the house. Kathy got a new bedroom all to herself, so that made mine and Michelle's room seem a little roomier. We also got a new recreation room (family room), we called it the rec room. Then there was a fairly small room that mom called a sewing room, even though I don't recall seeing her sew in there.

The three new rooms had black floor tile.The rec room and the sewing room had wood paneling. Kathy's room was painted a real bright hot pink. We loved this room. Mom and dad had worked side by side to build us the extension to the house. This was not unusual for them, they worked side by side doing most things. Dad was quite a good builder and mom stayed busy holding boards, tools or "fetching something" for him. It also wasn't unusual to see her swinging a hammer or using some other tool.

We moved the furniture from the living room into our new rec room and then bought new furniture for the living room. We didn't even use the living room much after that, it just looked nice.