I know Curt's dream is to buy a house and move out of the trailer park where we currently live. I know I will be just as excited to live on land that we own but I know I will miss our first home. We did live in an apartment for a year before we moved to where we live now but living in an apartment felt so temporary. Since we weren't allowed to paint, or hang pictures, or drapes on the walls it never really felt like ours.
Where we live now is home. We painted the walls, we fixed the floor and we had a room ready for Lucas months before he was even born (with a whole lot of help of course.) It is here that Lucas was conceived, where we brought him "home" from the hospital and where he learned to crawl. This is where we became a family.
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I know how you feel. When we moved this last time I was really sad because of all the same reasons. But now THIS is our home and he have new "firsts" and I look back and think how awful it would be to have to go back to the old house.
My mother, who was raised an army brat, says that "home is where you hang your hat." In the movie Bewitched, they say that "home is wherever you've been the happiest." And in another movie that I've forgotten the name of, they say that "home is where your parents are to take care of you, and get excited about your good grades or all teary-eyed on your first day of school."
Personally, I think home is wherever you want it to be, regardless of whether it's an apartment or trailor or house or townhouse or condo or whatever. I think home is something that we all carry with us in our hearts and minds, and the physical aspect of it is too easily changed to matter.
I'm gonna shut up now.
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