Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Home
It hit me while sitting and digesting after dinner tonight... i have lived in this house, here in hawaii, longer than i have lived in any single place since Appin Falls when i was still in high school, almost six years ago. how does that make me feel? i dont know. but it lead my thought to wonder where ya'll consider home to be. its a very vague and, really very arbitrary question seeing as how home can be defined as anything depending on.... anyway, in your own definition, where is home?
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Sometimes I wish I knew the answer to that question. I guess home really is where the heart is. My heart is usually with Taylor and the kids, of course. But, when I need to get away, then home is the local pub. ;)
Mo and Dad's house always feels like home because they are there, and so are familiar pieces of furniture, pictures, towels, dinner plates, Mo's jeep, home videos, etc, etc. Mo's STYLE feels like home, even when the actual objects change.
Not all families have as hard a time answering this question as we Oscarsons seem to have. You have been nomads and wanderers your whole lives and it was the same for me growing up. So what do I consider to be home? I have always felt a connection to Bountiful because my earliest and most vivid childhood memories are there. I have lived in our present home, longer than any other home I ever lived in--6 years this August! This is home to me--for now. The thing we are all pretty good at is making wherever we live our home. I consider that to be a good thing. Maybe none of us will ever feel totally "home" until we die and remember the real home we all came from. I think it will feel so familiar and comfortable that it will surprise us. And as for you, Miss Suzie Petunia, stay out of those pubs!
This IS a tough question. I feel at home in my house with Todd, and I feel at home with Mo and Dad. But Texas isn't MY home. When I go to church I don't see those familiar faces of the people who KNOW me. It's OK. It just means that "home" is contained within the walls of 9402 Southerloch Lake Drive. Yet even in the foreign condos of Midway I felt "at home" because all y'all were there. I could go on and on, but I have low blood sugar and I feel dizzy and should go eat something...
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Home has always been for me, where I have lived. I think I have always made where I was living my home. Except for a brief stint in Rexburg, which I could NEVER live there, have I always been at home,where I have lived.
However, when I think of going "home" it has always been to my parents house. Since my Father died, though, and my Mother lives with my family now, I have a sense of loss.. for a place to go "home" too.
We have lived here for three years, in this area for almost ten. I know this isn't where we will "retire" though. I have a sense that I want to be somewhere...else, for that.
I love this small farming community, in rural Box Elder County, Utah. It has afforded us a safe haven to raise our children and to carve out a peaceful life.
Now we are on this new road, with Ethan, who will require much care, and a more innovative technological, health resourced area, when he gets much older than he is now. We have started to prepare ourselves, for the enevitable move that will take place in the next year or too.
I look forward to a change, and wonder where our older children will consider "home", and where we will be burried. Isn't that odd, that I think of that?
My father is burried in Aurora, Utah, the very small town, that my Mother grew up in, and she will be placed next to him. I just don't know where that will be for us.
Thank you for the great question, and for a place to leave my thoughts, I love this blog, and I wish I had a family, a real family that has the closeness, and openness that yours does.
It is fantastic, and I love that you appreciate it!
Lisa--I'm flattered that you feel at home with our family. You are welcome at our "home" anytime--I always enjoy reading your posts and I look forward to reading more.
"Home"...hmmm. I have to agree that I feel totally at home wherever Mo and Papa are for the same reasons Carrie and Suzie listed. I also have to agree with Lisa that home is DEFINITELY not Rexburg, ID. I am home wherever Chris, Jake, Matthew & Hannah are. House is just a location. Although I wouldn't mind calling Hawaii or Nantucket Island or Venice Italy home!
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