Tree House

This was a while ago but one day we were on the freeway and drove past a small forest. There was a small fort that I could barely picked out. It triggered memories of the forts we had when I was younger. When we first moved to Woodbury I was 5 years old and my mom and dad bought this townhouse that was part of a new development. It was one street of about 12 houses in the middle of a cornfield. It was strange but the developer had big plans originally. We stayed surrounded by woods and farms for years, were we would steal their pumpkins for Halloween and go snowmobile in the woods. It was amazing and its all gone now. The only thing that is there now is more houses. The one thing that is still there is the pond that was in our back yard. It was so much fun to have a pond in your back yard, we would take a tiny boat out and paddle around in it. Until my brother and his friends put a hole in it while they were out one day and we laughed while we watched them sink. In the winter we would skate around, there was one boy on our block, his name was Jesse and he was the most amazing skater. Anyways my brother made the best forts. Well, the biggest one and the one that all the kids on the block shared was one hidden way back in a small forest that was about two blocks or so away from our house. It was a tree house with two levels and eventually turned into a boys clubhouse. I remember the first time I went back to see it they said, " Be careful of the booby traps, we have them all over"
"Like where?" I said
"Ummm......I can't really remember," Tom said
"Isn't that kind of dangerous?" I asked
"OH There is one! Don't step there," he shouted, and bent down a foot away from where I was walking to push away a pile of twigs to revel a deep hole. Later someone sprained their ankle because they forgot about the hole. The patch of forest was also by the pond and there was a huge mound of rocks, and sometimes you could see snakes pop out of the holes. Eventually the tree house was taken down and a new fort was built in our back yard. We didn't have any trees just a pond. We did have a huge electrical tower with a ton of bushes grown underneath it so they built on in the bushes. They built a fort in the bushes looked more like a little hut.
Growing up in a neighbor hood was great not just for the forts but for all the friends and fun we had. We would actually play stick ball, when we didn't have a bat. We had this huge rain fall one year and it turned the end of our street into a huge mud pit that went up to our waist and we all played in the mud for days until it dried up.
Today I got rejected from a job that I've applied to about a handful of times. I actually couldn't even believe I got an interview for it in the first place. When I left I felt like a had a chance. It made me feel like such a loser, like I'm doomed to clean houses for the rest of my life. I guess that scares me a little too.
I'm almost out of my first trimester and I'm already starting to feel bigger. Some of my clothes don't fit anymore, its just so weird. Dave has been the best dad/partner. He does everything for me, its so sweet. He reads books, and parenting magazines. He is going to be the best dad ever.