Comments on: When Home Isn’t Home

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 05:39:00 +0000

We moved to Seattle because we wanted to, too! I’m glad you’ve been adjusting well! I also love and appreciate your attitude of ‘well, if I still feel this way in a while, we’ll just move back’ because that’s the same thought process I had when we first moved here. Of course I’m hoping we love it, but if not, we can always change our circumstances again!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 05:37:00 +0000

So true! It must be kind of nice to feel like you can make ‘home’ anywhere you are.

By: Sarah Brooks

Sarah Brooks — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 17:17:00 +0000

I loved this post! We moved from AZ (my home) about 1 1/2 years ago to NC. We didn’t move because of a job, we moved because we wanted to. I have to admit, I have LOVED living here!! However, ever since the holidays (so the last two weeks haha), I have been yearning for home. I miss my family, I miss my friends, and I get sad thinking my little girls won’t be growing up near their grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. It’s weird because these feeling just recently set in. I guess we’ll see what happens – either they’ll go away or we’ll move back if they don’t, haha!

By: Lisa C

Lisa C — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 05:35:00 +0000

I’ve moved a lot, so home is where I want it to be. Though Colorado Springs and Blacksburg are the two cities that have felt more like home than anywhere else.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 21:20:00 +0000

I agree, I think Seattle will definitely turn into our home, it will just take some time!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 21:19:00 +0000

Yes! So true. Chicago feels like home because it’s familiar, but it definitely doesn’t feel like it’s our home anymore. Seattle feels like our home but it’s still unfamiliar to us… so strange!

By: Bash Harry

Bash Harry — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 12:11:00 +0000

I understand what you mean. House is not a home, nor is home a house. Home is where your heart is and that's in Chicago. It's okay to have these feelings, but we learn to accept it. Perhaps Seatlle can be a new home <3 xx Bash | H E Y B A S H | bloglovin'

By: Rachel G

Rachel G — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 04:28:00 +0000

I know this exact feeling. It’s weird when you go back to the same place that really was your home for so many years and now…it’s just not quite home. I was born in Michigan, and when my family moved overseas, I learned to call Michigan “home”, but when I finally returned to Michigan for college, I just felt like a foreigner.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:02:00 +0000

Gosh, good point. I think my childhood home will always be ‘home’ and it will be weird when/if my mom eventually moves from it! Plus, when we go to Chicago we now go to the suburbs and not the city which is where Tim and I actually lived. Gosh, it’s so complicated being an adult!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:01:00 +0000

I think it’s definitely hard when you don’t plan on truly settling in a place long term! I mean, I never felt like my college town was ‘home’ because I knew I wouldn’t be staying there longer than I had to. But I do love Seattle! (And we can’t wait to hang out with you guys again SOON!)