Why am I always backward looking, wondering what it might be like to have my children grow up where I did? You would think being a prior military family that I would be used to this life by now. Maybe I am. There's something about getting to move every year or so that is attractive to me. Still, home is always calling out to us and when I saw this picture from this past weekend, I felt the old familiar tug to pack up this house and go on home. When I think about what's important in life, so many faces enter my mind. Among these-
These four people, my grandparents, come to mind.
I miss these moments all the time. My step-dad and his pickin' buddies had a gig playing a little bluegrass and much of my family showed up to listen.
Nothin' big. Just having a good time.
All these small moments are big in my mind, though. How few of them I've had over the last five years!
Are you away from "home", too? What do you miss most?
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I've been struggling with this dilemma with my upcoming college graduation. I want my future children to live in the same hometown as their grandparents, aunts/uncles, and cousins. Yet I don't want to live in my hometown because there are no job opportunities in my field. I have no idea where I'll end up after I graduate.
I miss the little things of home like going to Target with my sister. I'm ready for my visit there in a few weeks.
I have been feeling guilty lately about my children's lives. I feel bad for taking them away from family. They don't know their grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other family members. They know of them, but it has been a year since we have visited. None of my family has met my 6 month old. I was/am so close to my immediate and extended family. I want them to have the same memories I do of growing up with family. I guess they will have memories of their military family instead.
I'm still living where I grew up and although it's a great place, there are NO opportunities here except for coal mining. That field itself is starting to look dimmer and dimmer. My oldest starts High School this year and I have two little ones at home. Hubby and I have talked about the possibility of moving once Sis graduates. The two little ones will still be small enough that it won't have to big of an impact on them. It's hard to leave where your roots are though.
I get a bit sad that my kids won't be around their grandparents. I do love that they have their own adventures in new places, though. And can have the excitement of visiting those relatives far away!
I go back and forth. We love traveling and being away, but miss our families. but now are in DC for three years with all of our families, I get a little overwhelmed by the account of things we 'have' to do and places we have to be. I think the best of both worlds is being just close enough to visit :)
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