The Move (Part 2)

Mobile Home very similar to our new home in 1980

Our new home was massive (to us) and gorgeous!  It was decked out in all the latest colors and fabrics that 1980 had to offer.  It was moved into a space just few trailers down from where we started and we immediately began to try to figure out who was going to have the big room on the end where the bay window was.  Turns out my mom had that pegged for us three girls.  My brother got his own room and us three girls were in the bigger room on the end.  My parents' room was on the opposite end.  Although just about 2 months earlier we had lived in a regular house in Riverside, California, it had been long enough that we felt like we had all the space in the world.  Things are so different when you are a kid.  Space and time and perceived hardships have a different definition.  I remember that we loved the new space at first and then, as with most things, we got used to it and the walls started closing in.  But at first it was glorious!  A new trailer has much the same smell, in my opinion, as a new car and we couldn't get enough of it!  The mobile home was not the only new thing that we got in short order.....