Fifteen Years Ago- Home
Ξ September 15th, 2009 | → 2 Comments | ∇ me me me |
I was born in Southern California, grew up there, and went to college there.
My family managed to move even more often that my Army-brat husband did. Due to being renters, changing school districts, changing jobs, whatever the reason, we averaged a move every other year while growing up. I had lived in something like 13 houses by the time I was 16 and went off to college.
But, even though I moved so often, we always lived in Southern California, and it never occurred to me to live anywhere else. Where else do you have such amazing beaches and mountains? An utter lack of humidity?
Smog-induced gorgeous sunsets?
And now I own a house in Mississippi.
MISSISSIPPI.
A state I never even dreamed of living in when I was younger. I just had fun spelling it.
Of course, I don’t live in the house that we own anymore. And since getting married, I’ve lived in:
San Diego, California (where they have road signs warning you to beware of illegal immigrants crossing the road)
Port Hueneme, California (where they have strawberry fields on the sides of the road)
Iwakuni, Japan (where I couldn’t understand any of the roadsigns)
Great Mills, Maryland (where they have roadsigns warning you to beware of the Amish and their horse-drawn carriages on the road)
Gulfport, Mississippi (where all we saw was destruction on the side of the road when we first moved there after Katrina)
And now we’re in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (where they have drive-thru daiquiri stands on the side of the road)
And I love it. I love experiencing the different cultures and look forward to where else we will journey.
I’m not even sure if we’ll settle back in California when our Navy life is over. That’s still at least 10 years away.
And I’ve learned that I really don’t have any control over where I’ll be then.
And that God can come up with a much better long-term plan than I ever can.
on September 16th, 2009 at 7:12 am
I think I need to remember that too sometimes Christy! That my plan may not be the best and I just need to figure out where life leads me. I haven’t lived as many places as you, but I know that in another 2 years we’ll be packing up and doing it all over again. The packing part I don’t love…or the unpacking…but you’re right that the new places are pretty cool!
on December 22nd, 2009 at 1:43 am
Amen. We just came from LA and are now in Southern Cali. I love all the places that we get to go, some I have to try harder to love.