You can be HOME anywhere

I mentioned in an earlier post that I used to get homesick while on vacation with my family. I can honestly say, though there is no place like home, I am not homesick for my house in Richmond. Maybe The Pink House never stood a chance to get my complete affection since Australia was looming over our heads, since though it is a beautiful home, we did not choose the configurations and fixtures and granite (hee hee, had to throw that in since it would be way too impractical to change it, but it is the thing I least like in the house!). Maybe, I was just busy with a newborn and a toddler and life and it just wasn't so important at the time. All of these and the big THAT that became a reality. The possibility of moving to Oz.

I looked at pictures of the house online the other day and while I say I don't miss The Pink House, I do miss, dry a tear, the possibilities that seemed to come with The Pink House. We were in a nice neighborhood with some nice neighbors, in a good school district, near everything and still not too far from our families in MD. This was the house that my big family could all come to and STAY the night! This is the house where we would make our memories, where Muff and Huck would play and get their first dog. This is the house we would make our own. Though, while we were in the house, we didn't do one thing to make it ours except put our stuff in it. The list of things we wanted to do...to make it ours never got written so much as spoken about in random snippets of convo that adults have in the 'tween time of taking care of kids.. I have thought I might make that my project here...to list those things, gather ideas, etc...but then I might grow more attached and the worst part of this whole move to me, is I don't know where we go from here. The Pink House sits unrented. The family who were interested must have folded. I don't know. I can say, I was a little jealous of them to come live in our Pink House and live my PINK, rosy life. Poor Pink House, it has a lousy success rate at keeping happy families so far. At least we left it as a whole unit. Hopeful that we will return to it and some of those possibiliTTTT's become REALITTTT's!

One thing I believe is that is doesn't matter where you are so much, it's who you are with. If I had  my ruby slippers, I'd love for us all to be together. But this isn't forever...and before you know it, we'll be bumping elbows around a table together again. Lots of things, celebrations to look forward to for sure.

You all have each other. I miss you more! XO.