Just got home last night from a weeks vacation in Tennessee. While I am glad to be home, going there reminds me of how much I love and miss it every day, here in Ohio.
It was a really great trip and I was able to spend most of the week with my sister as well as seeing almost everyone I wanted to there.
I took the sister home from the hospital and helped her get settled, then took her to run some errands and get some things done for she and the baby. He's really such a beautiful little boy and so quiet and well behaved. Once we finished everything (seeing my mom, taking her to the store, getting her pictures done), we were able to settle down and spend a good amount of time together.
After all that, I spent time here and there with family members and close friends. But you know how there is always that one specific visitation that sticks out in your mind.
I went one afternoon to spend some time with my Mimi (grandmother on my mom's side) and Pa. I always love every visitation with them. I was able to spend the first few hours, just my Mimi and I chatting and catching up. She always asks me my opinions and views on things and once in a while we will wander off on a specific interest of ours. She recently discovered my interest in decorating. We talked about my different ideas and styles that I have had in mind. She was really excited about this because she's taken an interior decorating class seeing as she has a nack for it. She gave me several interesting ideas for what we have that I hadn't thought of as well as some tips on color scheme, style ideas, etc.
It was a great visiting and she and I snuck in my Pa's candy and nibbled while we talked ^_^
Afterward, they went out and brought me several big boxes of sets of all sorts of dishes. All of them the same dishes as the ones that they used when I was little. Not only did it completely stock us for good in the dishware department, but it's all sentimental to me.
By the time I left on Sunday, I had an entire car full of all sorts of things for our apartment; a new microwave, several sets of dishes, decorating items. When I got home, I felt like our apartment got a whole new upgrade.
Now that I am back home, I'm getting refocused. I don't really realize how much being so far away is affecting my mood until I go back to Tennessee and realize how much I miss it. I don't regret for one second moving out here. I still wouldn't have done it any other way, but now I'm ready to be back and be closer to my family, now that I've had this experience so far away.
I have to say, though. I am pretty proud of myself for how well things have gone and what we're working towards. I am no longer the person that claims I'm going to take a huge step in my life. I just do it.
My current plans for the rest of the time we are here in Ohio is to buckle down. Stay focused and do the things that make me happy. As of now, my happiness lies in keeping up the place we have; cooking, cleaning, saving money, basically acting as a fully functioning unit, taking care of myself and the man I love.
My plans for tomorrow:
- get up and get going
- take a walk
- drink nothing but water all day
- cleaning
- paperwork
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