When the boys were little and our money was even smaller, we used to take tours of the manufactured home sales lots. We would pretend we were interested in buying a new home and tour all of the display models. I am sure the sales people could tell we were just looking for cheap entertainment. They would leave us to wander the models and go off to chase the "real sales". When we entered the front door of the model we could tell right away if we were going to "live there" or not. We would pick out our bedrooms, arrange our imaginary furniture, lay in the bathtubs and decide what color towels we would put in the bathrooms. It really was fun.
Now that they are older we do a more mature version of the same. We ride our bikes by the million dollar beach houses in Mandalay Bay and pick out which ones we would buy, if we could. We have even started saving our change in a piggy bank, our "house fund". We love to chat about the different houses as we ride by (I'm sure some of the homeowners get a kick out of this).
While riding bikes and picking out favorite houses this week, Devon was asked which one he wanted. His sweet reply: "I'm happy with what I have, we should be happy with what we have because some day we may not have anything!"
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