Yesterday I read a post at another traveler’s blog discussing where home is. Being a nomad means we have no home in the traditional sense of the word. Our last home was a rental in Roseville California. Now when asked where is home, I answer, here – where we are right now.
Right now, today, home is in Mesa Arizona. Home is where ever my husband and daughter are at. Monday home will be in Roseville California through March 20th. So some may think I’m going back home. Yet California doesn’t feel like home anymore.
When we return to Mesa Arizona on March 21st, it will feel like I’m coming back home. At least for a while. Until we go ‘home’ to Rice Lake Wisconsin where Joel’s mom lives. Joel was born in Wisconsin so he’ll be going home in yet another sense.
Home here in Arizona for the past 7 weeks has been great. Our hosts and friends, the Wilson’s, have made us feel right at home. We all pitch in together to shop, cook, and clean. We enjoy watching movies together at the end of the day. Joel and Terry, both musicians and bass players, loved participating in FAWM during February and creating new songs.
Fiona right now is making peanut butter cookies with Virgie. She loves both Terry and Virgie and they have made her feel very special while we’ve been here.
We’re very grateful to the Wilsons for hosting us these past 7 weeks. We’re happy they want us to come back to house sit in March while they’re on vacation. It will be nice to have a place to ourselves for a couple of weeks in a place where we feel comfortable and AT HOME!
Makes me wish we had a little bigger home so we could host y’all in that way, too. I know we can all squish in – and if we had to, we could squish for 7 weeks, but it isn’t as relaxing, inspiring, and energizing when you’re wrestling for your space (psychic or physical) at the desk or wondering if your mandolin is keeping people awake who punch the clock.
So, just know I think it would be great – and Virgie and Terry are blessed to have the experience.
We’ll find a way to house sit somewhere up there, and have time to cook for you folks, and play a little music. I still make the best waffles on earth, and now I have a boatload of new songs written.
:-))))