Rabbit Street

This is the first house Mallory’s Mom lived in. It was a cute house in the small town of Lakefield, the town where your Great Grandma, Nana and Aunt Terri grew up. It was on Rabbit Street. Isn’t that a great name for a street?

A rabbit hopped by once in awhile, but it should have been called Toad Street, because toads liked to bury themselves in the garden in spring and spend the winter in the warm earth. They’d dig themselves out in spring, go to the wetland across the street, where they’d lay eggs. After their eggs formed into tadpoles, then the tadpoles grew into baby toads, they’d hop all over the front lawn.

When you walked into the front door, there was a big front foyer with a closet and the clothes washer and dryer. The kitchen opened to the family room, and it was very cozy, with a wooden beam in the ceiling and a fireplace.

The two bedrooms and bathroom were upstairs, and Mallory’s Mom’s bedroom was at the back, and was blue, red, yellow and white.

The house was in town, close to walk to everything. Mallory’s Mom went for rides in her stroller to the post office, grocery store and drug store almost every day and lots of people in town knew her. The next-door neighbour was Mrs. Koller. She was the mother of Nana’s best friend, Bernadette.