When I realized I had not been home to California in 2 1/2 years I knew it was time to make a way out there before Sadie turned two and we had to start buying her a plane ticket. We searched for a conference for Josh to go to out there so that he could use some of his CME time and his program would pay for his ticket. We found one in San Diego at the end of January, and voila! we were in business. We stayed at my parents' house for a few days, then Josh and I left the kids with them and took off to San Diego for our first getaway without the kids, ever. We squeezed in a lot of fun in the few days before we left, but mostly it was just so good to be back home, in the beautiful Southern California weather, and enjoy time with family.
Lucky Charms and a warm backyard. Life is good!
I love this park, and the walk to it from my parents house, and all the memories of Sunday walks there through the years.
I expected to feel something akin to "Oh the weather here is so great and California is awesome!" What I underestimated was how much I would feel a nostalgia and longing for California as the place where I grew up and my childhood memories were. Going for runs in the morning on my old route I passed by one of the elementary schools and saw all the kids walking there and thought about how I used to do that. Every day. That I can't even ever remember a time when my mom drove me there, because it was almost always nice enough to walk (the only thing that changed was that all the parents were walking with their kids). I didn't realize how much I missed the Hispanics and Asians, and the smells of cypress trees and orange blossoms. And all the wonderful amazing people in my home ward. And even as we were driving to San Diego with each song that would come on the radio in the car, I would turn to Josh and say, "Oh my gosh, these are my jams!" I'm sure I had a romanticized version of everything in my head, but I was seriously trying to figure out how we could make it feasible to move back. Dang you exorbitant student loan. I realize that when I look back at all the places I've lived, I tend to romanticize all of them- even Saginaw for crying out loud ha ha, so I'm sure wherever we end up will be fine, as long as we can make it back to the mother land for visits:)
2 comments:
Yes, we sure are thankful for this warm weather we are having, so much better than other parts of the country right now. But you always know how to make the best of every place you live, Kelly.
You are very resourceful.
I romanticize about all the people we've lived with in our crazy moving adventure especially you guys!! Maybe one day we can build a compound for us all to live in!! :)
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