a taste of "home"

I thought about what to write about all day today, and really felt no inspiration. My head is pounding from this cold/flu that Makaela and I have... and the day was just kinda blah.

Though I must say I have the greatest "mother in law" ... I picked Makaela up at the Superstore after work, and Bev had bought us dinner!!!!!!!!! WHAT A BLESSING.

So funny cause I walked into the store thinking I should pick something up for dinner but I did not even care if I ate because I did not want to cook! Cool eh!

Besides that, my devotions were fantastic just nothing I would care to share.... SOOOOOOOOOO then I came on the comp. to start to think.... and it came to me! It's quite random but special to me.

It has often occurred to me that I do the weirdest things to remind me of "HOME"... (Ontario). It's hard to say "home" because "home" is really where Greg and I are... but "home" is also where I grew up. So I often have a battle in my mind as to where I really feel "home" is!

Anyway, so when I sat down at the comp, I turned on the speakers and went to my bookmarks and then to my CFRB newstalk 1010 player. YEP! That's right! That is when I realized that I really do have some weird habits!

When I lived in Oshawa, I spent HOURS listening to that talk station when I was driving to and from school everyday ... and it's a part of "home" to me. So when Greg is working, I come and turn on the computer radio and listen to the 401 traffic and the weather just to feel like I am apart of "my life" there. Weird eh! (And I seriously wish we had a good radio station like that here. Talk radio here is BEYOND boring.) I can remember the first time Greg came home and heard me listening to the internet 1010 station! ha... he thought I was crazy!

Memories are what makes me emotionally attached to things...

When I really miss my mom and dad, I make myself a cup of tea... that's one of my favourite things I LOVED doing with my dad... drinking tea with him on Sunday afternoon while watching football.

When I am really missing Kim and Chris, I make myself a huge salad with cranberries and every random thing that you can think of... cause that's one thing I LOVED about eating at their home!

When I am really missing my brother, I watch hockey! I absolutely LOVED watching my bro play... I spent my life in an arena and it is a HIGHLIGHT of my "childhood"!

When I miss Julie, I watch Gilmore girls...

So I guess you get the point! I just have a lot of random habits that keep me feeling apart of my life in Ontario. Though I miss everyone SO much and I HATE being so far away, I know that Greg and I are supposed to be here in Nova... and I am ok with that... (most days!)

I truly am thankful today for all
of my habits that I would call
"taste of home".

manda