Our first 2 apartments in PA

We have now lived in our home for 8 years.  It's kind of sad that we have been married almost 21 years and this is the longest we have lived in one place.  Before this house, we moved around a lot.  Although we lived mostly in the same area, we lived in a lot of different areas. I was going to blog all the different places we lived, but I think I will just start with our 2 apartments in PA.

Our first little apartment was so cute!  It was tiny! Our bedroom didn't have a closet, it was in the living room.  We could only fit one of those little 2 people round tables in the dining room.  BUT we did have a very cute porch with a swing out in front.  You can't see the swing, it was on the far right. It was an old house that was converted into 4 apartments.  We didn't live there very long because it wasn't very convenient to our jobs.  Can you believe that we only paid $290 a month!!  Ours was the bottom floor on the right.  This was in Mechanicsburg, PA.  I babysat my nephew Jesse in this apartment, we only lived a couple of streets over from Ray's sister. Jesse & I did a lot of swinging in that swing and singing preschool songs.

We then moved to New Cumberland, PA and lived in our large 1 bedroom apt for almost a year.  I think this apartment was only $345 or something like that, but that was A LOT more than our first place! It was nice, considering the time in our lives.  It had a huge closet in the bedroom, huge living room, it fit 2 full size couches, and a chair.  We had a big picture window that looked out over the to river.  

One of the bad things about the apartment was it very steep (bright green) stairs!! We lived on the top floor.  The other bad thing was that there was no laundry there, we had to go to the laundry mat! Yuk!! (There was a really great pizzeria right next to the laundry mat that had wonderful east coast Stromboli that I loved!) 

There was an old "white" house that was next to our apartment building. They tore it down & now it is a Rite Aid.  Sometimes we parked at that house and brought our laundry or groceries up the stairs.  That eliminated one set of stairs.  When we lived at this apartment, there was a major heat wave in the summer, major snow storm, and then when it melted, there was a flood!  The bridge that we crossed over every day was closed. If we wanted to go anywhere we had to travel a long ways to around it.

Our apartment was in the white section, the top window on the farthest right. It was off of a main road and the parking lot was by the tree in the first picture. Where the cement fence is, is where we would climb up and go to our apartment.  They didn't have the other fence on top of it.  It seems like there was an easier place to get into our apartment from there.  I got these pictures from Google.  Back then we didn't take very many pictures!

One funny little story about this apartment that wasn't very funny then...

It had snowed recently and was melting.  It was slushy outside.  Sometimes we would go start our car, leave it running to warm up and lock it, and use the other set of keys to unlock it.  Well, that is what we did, BUT my keys were locked in the glove box!  I had to walk to work while Ray waited for the locksmith to come unlock our running car.  

We didn't live very far from my work.  That is one of the reasons why we got this apartment.  But as I said it was slushy outside.  I got sprayed with slushy snow mess on the way to work.  I was NOT in a very good mood when I got there!  

I worked in a daycare.  When I got there, there wasn't enough teachers and I was over in my allowed # of children.  My boss then came in and I yelled at him. Whoops!!  At lunch time, he called me into the office.  Before he could say anything, I told him I was sorry for yelling at him and explained that I had a "rough" morning.  Luckily he didn't say much and said  something to the likes of OK, you can go back to your lunch.