Home for the Holidays??

Cabanaboy1313 · #1 12/02/14, 09:49 AM

I just got back from South Carolina after visiting my Gal's Father and Step-Monster. They have lived all over the USA and have been in SC for 9 years. My Gal was an army brat and was married to an Air Force Academy Grad. So she had also lived all over the USA. I grew up in a small town in WI and (22 yrs.) and have lived in the same house in MN for the past 26 yrs. I have always felt like my childhood town was Home. Which is why I think we purchased the Homestead there. During Thanksgiving Diner we had a discussion what they considered Home for the Holidays. The general consensus was where someone grew up has considered Home or at least Hometown.

So What do you consider Home for the Holidays and why??

Queen Bee · #2 12/02/14, 12:22 PM

I was an Army Brat. Lived all over but from an early age, with every move, I declared I would marry someone who had roots and never wanted to move, which I did! I always felt like a visitor even at my parents McMansion..never really felt "at home"
until we had been married a long time, now living at on the farm where dh grew up we both feel we are home! This is what my children call "home for the holidays!

Miss Kay · #3 12/03/14, 08:21 PM

I have no family left in the area where I grew up. We have moved several times in our 40 years of marriage so I don't really have a place that stands out in my mind. Home really is where my loved ones are located and that could be different from year to year.

#4 12/04/14, 02:00 AM

I also had a migratory childhood.

Since I sold my home and married DH, moving in to his bachelor pad... He has pointed out numerous times that this isn't mine, but is his.

Guess I don't have a home.

I think where ever my kids and I managed to be at the same time would be my "home" even if it were La Quinta... LOL!

Old John · #5 12/04/14, 06:09 AM

M siblings and I grew up on a little 40+ Acre Farm, in SE Indiana. As the oldest I was 1st to leave. I went to the USAF for awhile. And Then I spent a couple years in South and Gulf Coast Texas, knocking around doing construction.

After I came Home to Indiana I always thought I'd like to go back to Texas....
But I Never have, in spite of traveling all over the United States, on vacations.
I have seen just about all of Indiana, though. And I still live here....

I have seen several of Our Great National Parks on those Vacations, Yellow Stone, The Great Meteor Crater, The Grand Canyon, and a lot of the Rocky Mountains.
WE crossed the Great Divide, in the Rocky Mountains several times.
But, I am a Native Hoosier.........I live in SW Indiana....
So, here I'll stay... In Indiana.
ETA>>> Several of my 5 Children and 16 Grandkids will get around to visiting........For the Holidays, I'm sure.

geo in mi · #6 12/04/14, 06:30 AM

No reason to go back to my original "hometown". Since GM left the area, the town is dead, with grass growing up through the pavement cracks.

Been here in Michigan longer than any other, so this is home. Two of my three kids live here with my five granddaughters, so holidays revolve around being here, somewhere.

Lessee:

"Back home again, in Indiana"
"Home, Sweet Home"
"Home is where the heart is"

"Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."
"Home, home on the range, where the deer and the cantelope play" (My Granddaughter, when she was three years old)
"I've learned to be content, no matter what state I'm in." (Paul)
"There's no place like home, there's no place like home" (Dorothy)
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there,. They have to take you in." (Robert Frost, "The Death of the Hired Man.")
"Oh, there's no place like home for the holidays" (Perry Como/Bing Crosby, Elvis)

Anyone who whines and complains at my house: "Well, if you wanted to feel at home, why did you come here?"

geo

Cabanaboy1313 · #7 12/04/14, 10:16 AM

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep

Robert Frost

Cabanaboy1313 · #8 12/04/14, 10:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TraciInTexas

I also had a migratory childhood.

Since I sold my home and married DH, moving in to his bachelor pad... He has pointed out numerous times that this isn't mine, but is his.

Guess I don't have a home.

I think where ever my kids and I managed to be at the same time would be my "home" even if it were La Quinta... LOL!

My Gal moved in to my townhouse and we have redecorated not to my liking I have better taste than she does but I wanted to make her feel at "home", She still complains from time to time that it's not her home. However the Homestead that we purchased together she loves. She can't wait to start the garden this spring. She plans on spending most of the summer there.