Erica Monaghan left a note to buy a porch swing her from the property her late dad once owned.
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00:00When I seen that they still had that swing, it's like flashes, you know, like my kids on that swing me on that swing just
00:08Everything it just like really brought back a lot of memories and I was like, I cannot believe they still have that swing
00:14that is so cool, you know, I
00:17Am born and raised Arizona. I've got seven kids between my husband and I so we're a big blended family
00:24so I've been married for a couple of years and
00:27My dad passed away when I was 30
00:31And I was like a super daddy's girl
00:34So when he passed away, like I was a mess just miserable. I wasn't ready for him to go
00:40He was like my rock, you know before he passed away. He lived a couple hours away from us me and my sisters
00:46it was where we would go and bring our kids and
00:49Get away for the weekend. Like it was like it had become like our gathering place
00:55He'd worked only for like a year then he got diagnosed with cancer and it was his third time getting diagnosed with cancer so
01:02He let us know like hey, you know
01:04This is just what it is and he ended up passing away here in Chandler close to us like by us
01:09He lived with my sister in hospice
01:11But the last like memories were up north with him
01:16Bringing my kids as much as possible
01:18So they could get time with him and I had not gone back to the house since he passed away
01:24My husband and I were just going to do like a little weekend getaway up where he used to live and I was like
01:29I really want to take you
01:31To like where my dad lived just to see like it what it feels like my husband like pulled into the driveway
01:37And he got out and I was like, what are you doing?
01:39He went to the door and he's like ringing it over and over and I'm like, he's like damn like I you know
01:44I wanted to I was gonna ask him if we can buy that bench from him
01:48And I was like, oh, that's so sweet, honey. Like oh, that's so kind, but it's okay
01:52Let's go and he's like no like right is no like do something like we got to get that bench
01:57So yeah
01:58I wrote the note and I was so grateful that the guy called me like within a couple of hours and it's like talk to
02:04My wife if you know, there's a bench we found for 200 bucks
02:07If you didn't want to buy it a new bench like just come and get that
02:11I mean, so my husband brought us back and we got the bench
02:14I have been a content creator for a while and when I posted that I really didn't expect that it was gonna do as good
02:20and get as
02:22Well of a response, you know, and before I posted it
02:25I sent it to my kids and just my kids responses were like you got the bench
02:30It was like even more special. I think he owned the house for like eight years. I mean, it was a good amount of time and
02:37Literally
02:39If I just think of the house at them my biggest memory is the bench my husband's going to
02:44Install it in the back and we have like a really nice backyard and he's a general contractor and he's like no
02:50It's going at our house. Like it's gonna be where our kids can go back and sit on on the bench
02:58Spend more time on the bench with your family something so simple could mean so much to somebody