Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." This blog, therefore, becomes one of many ways that I can examine my life and share my random musings with the people I love.
Monday, August 3, 2009
There's No Place Like Home
I went home to California last week, and I loved every second of it. There's something exhilarating about driving down the highway past rows and rows of fruit trees, knowing that every second you are getting closer to a farmer's market where you can partake of the yumminess! There's something soothing about pulling up to the same lakeside general store you've been going to since before you can remember, and finding out the the night crawlers are still kept in the same spot. There's just something wonderful about going home and being reminded of people and places that are so familiar and that hold so many memories.
I spent the week shopping, going to Huntington Lake, meeting up with friends from high school, eating fabulous food, play Super Scrabble, and watching Center Stage's production of Beauty and the Beast.
It was a great week and many thanks go out to Mom and Dad for all the entertaining they did and for all of the years of memories! Here's to...
Baking hundreds of cookies in 104 degree weather
Picking grapes on the welfare farm and getting slurpies afterwards
Fishing with Dad, even when I wouldn't touch the fish I caught
Sticking labels on thousands of postcard ads for musicals to be mailed all over the valley
Making apricot jam, and apricot fruit leather, and dried apricots, and...who-knows-what-else
Swimming in the pool, trying not to puncture any beach balls on the rose bushes, and failing
Camping, especially waking up to Mom cooking over a camp fire
And all the other fun times we have every time I go home!
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6 comments:
No one appreciates the simple things quite like you do. I'm glad you had a good week. I bet your parents were thrilled to spoil you with happy memories.
Thursday still on?
Its true, there is no place like home and you are making me miss mine!
Thanks for making the long drive with me, but as you have said, it was well worth it. I had a great time too and I can't wait to go back for Christmas this year!
WOW... i forget how much of our lives are tied together. I definitely remember ALL those things and a few more like organizing pantries and painting rooms/duvet covers :) I have to say that we had an amazing childhood (although our 'fun' was a but different than most)
I love having my girls come home (that includes you, Stephanie)as well as the boys. It was a real treat to have you here. Just wished we lived closer to each other.
Home and family and familiar things and memories are wonderful treasures we have. I'm glad you got to enjoy yours.
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