Home is....

Where your heart is.

Where I hang my hat.

Where my furniture is.

 

Where is home?  When we travel to Ontario to see our family and where we were raised and lived for most of our lives we say that we are going home.  After our time there we pack up and tell people we are going back home to Saskatchewan.

 

This past weekend we had another "going home" experience.  We left Deschambault Lake early Friday morning.

-35 degrees Celsius

Beautiful snow covered trees

 It was so cold out that the windows would hardly stay defrosted.  We watched the sun come up and we continued to drive.

When we got to Saskatoon the ice crystals in the air made rainbows in the sky.  We continued to drive until we put 8 hours behind us to arrive in Swift Current where we lived for only 4 years and had moved from there in June of this year.  It was so strange....it felt like we were coming home.

On Friday night we were anxious to meet with some great friends and so we set up a coffee date at McDonalds with Nelda, John, Bruce, Lynne, Casey and Brad.  It was so great to hear about their last few months and for us to share about our life now.  Nelda, who is the sweetest person blessed me with a Christmas gift but I already feel blessed just to have her as my friend.

On Saturday we packed as much visiting as we could get into one day.  First a quick stop at my hairdressers for an overdue appointment, coffee with one of Ron's young partners, lunch with 2 of his partners and one of their families and then an afternoon visit to Bruce & Lynne's to see their renovations....very nice.  Our main reason for making the trip was to go to a retirement dinner for an executive that I had worked with/for.  Again, it was so nice to see people that I worked with and to especially enjoy visiting with Kevin & Roxane, another couple of great friends that we met while living there.  I not only worked with Roxane but we went to the same church and so spent quite a bit of time together.  She is another one of those special people.

On Sunday I got up early in anticipation for a tea date with my tea partner from work.  Catherine of cornerofcatsmind became a very special friend.  We shared a lot on our tea walks especially when it was nice and the weather demanded us to go through the park or take one more block.  We have kept in contact since and I was so thrilled that it worked out that we could have this visit.  We only had about one hour so we did a bit of speed talking and she was so sweet to buy a set of new mugs for me to enjoy my tea...and she bought matching ones for herself so it is kind of like having tea together.  She also mentioned that it was nice for me to be "home."

One more stop....our great church.  It was indeed like going home.  Since moving we are not always able to get to church on Sunday and often I listen to Pastor Paul's sermons via webcast but it was great to be there in person.  He mentioned that it was great to have us home.  I also got my baby fix through the service by being able to hold the newest member of Family Community Church.

Baby Morgan

So home is...where you feel welcome and loved.  I guess Swift Current is another home for us.