Home
Where is home? Is it where you live now? Or where you grew up? To me, home is where my heart is. There were sad times there as well as good. But my heart beats happier when I think of that place. In a matter of hours my daughter and I will be hitting the road and making that journey home once more. There, our dearest friends await us. Ready to welcome us back. The kids were born here but are excited about the move. All prepared for their adventure.
I don’t plan to move again once I get settled. If Tara and the kids wish to move again at a later time, it will be without me.. I give thanks to God for giving me this chance to go home. Some of us never get that opportunity. When He opens a door for you, be prepared to go through it. You may not get a second chance.
When next I blog, I will be an Okie once more.
Until then…
Love, Jackie xxx
My hometown is many miles from here, Jackie. I was born and raised there and moved away fourteen years ago. Like you, I get giggly excited when I go back home to see my family and friends. I even visit the hospital where I was employed for so many years. If I have time… I’ll go visit my old family doctor and his nurse.
I don’t know that I have the strength to make another BIG move as this one. It was so difficult for me and took me years to get used to such a different environment from what I was brought up in. But, it is strange… how I now consider it ‘home’. I am attached to this area now.
My husband never liked my hometown and when the opportunity arose for a new job… he took it right away. So, as you stated, when God opens a door for us… we should be prepared to go through it as we did. 🙂
Thanks for posting this, Jackie. Enjoy your new home when you get there.
So lovely jackie, your post made me smile. My home is where hubby and little dog are, love where we live, have a real affection for our city, once a little seaside town, and my long time friends and the community, at 66 I am still “mate” to the locals lol. have lived other places and traveled, going home was one of my most happy moments.
Wishing you every happiness in your “going home” jackie, love skip xxx
How nice for you Jackie. So pleased you’re going home. Bon Voyage, my friend. I hope you spend many long, happy years there. Take care. merver x
my home as never been anywhere but where i am now. the town not the actual house! i am just a stick in the mud!
jcb, my hubby and I are also sticks in the mud or party poopers. lol We love to stay home when he has his days off. I do tend to sneak off to the stores while he’s home sometimes though. lol
Well I was born in the country moved to city at 16, ….but home to me is this house my husband and I moved into when we married ,he hated it I loved it……we moved to a house on the lake on the central coast he loved it had ten years there till he died …..I couldn’t wait to get back to my home . He would have a fit if he knew I was back in this house lololo now my kids and grand kids all live in our home together ….I love it ……..mac
I left my home almost 50 years ago, but came back alone, nine years ago. My home is on an island, on the water. It’s a place of peace and comfort. The farm I grew up on is only five minutes away, the people in my village know me by name, they know my sorrow.
In four days will be the first anniversary of my son’s death, the not long after that the second anniversary of the loss of my husband. My home is a safe secure place that is my strength to find my way back. I never really thought it would be my home and my little dogs that would be my greatest comfort. It’s only people that think I may be a bit daft right now. Oh well..I like to think eccentric ..some things take time..a lot of time.
Thanks for the blog Jackie…got me thinking and even typing. Hope you are so very happy HOME.
Kay so good to see you hope you are happy in your home,god bless xxxxxx, mac
“May the wind be always at your back.”
wherever i lay my head thats my home lol!!! 🙂 🙂
Good luck Jackie, and hope you find happiness back home.
Canadkay, its been a tough few years for you, but glad you will be home with friends and family that will care for you 🙂
I think on the whole I call UK ‘home’, but whenever I am away from where I am at that moment, I call that home too.
Good blog Jackie 🙂
Good luck Jackie on your move back to Oklahoma. I grew up in Pa. in Greencastle and that is still home to me even though the house I grew up in is no longer there. I have lived in Ohio. Massachuetts, Vermont , California and Maryland where I moved back here in 95 from Ca. So don’t plan on moving anymore until I am gone and my final resting place will be up in Greencastle with my husband and my Mother and Grandparents.
My home is where my family are, wouldnt be happy in the most beautiful place in the world if they were not close by,guess i’m lucky,still in the same village i grew up in, and so are my family, dosen’t mean i never leave the village lol i have travelled and seen a lot of parts of the country …. but always glad to return, anyway Jackie hope the move goes smoothly and you feel happy and contented in your new home xx
Being a global gypsy, I’m like a potplant, I just pick up my pot and move. If I had a say in where I’d love home to be, it would be in the same town as my children and grandchildren. But it’s not to be. The kids have to be where work is and they have their own destinies. So, I’ll just bloom where I’m planted 🙂
Hello roommate first time I am able to chat here sitting in my favourite armchair fire on with a bowl of porridge and mug of tea
I live in Bristol Uk have done all my 77 years have lived in this house for 53 yrs when it was new its been a lovely home have a daughter Jane and son Roger we are blessed with 4 grandchildren Richard and Jessica and Dani and Rachel all grown up to be happy lovely people