A friend of mine recently posted about her identity crisis and here I am having one of my own now. (I'm blaming this one on you Lisa).
Here it goes...
Where is home?
I was born in Tulsa, OK. We lived there until I was in Pre-K and then we moved to Midland, Michigan. We lived in Michigan while I was in Kindergarten and First grade. Next was Phoenixville, PA from 2nd to 7th grade and then back to Tulsa in 8th grade. I moved to Stillwater, OK after High School to go to cosmetology school. I lived there for 4 years. I met Joey while in Stillwater, we got married and moved to Wisconsin for the next year. Then... we moved to Durant, OK for 3-ish years and now we're in Maumelle, AR and have been for about 2 years. The longest I have ever lived in one place is 6 years. PHEW!!! oh and I forgot to mention... my parents moved from Tulsa to Houston about 3 years ago. So... where is home? If my parents still lived in Tulsa, I'd say Tulsa. That's not the case so I guess home is Maumelle, AR. That brings me to my next question.
What is Love?
The sermon at church today was about "love". The Pastor explained that Love isn't something that you're "in" or that you "fall in", it's something that you do or choose to do. I was about to update my facebook status saying that I wish that I was "in love" with AR, but realized it's my own fault. (ugh - my own fault? I don't' know that I really believe that but I'll say it for now). Basically in order to be "in love" one must show love or act out love. I'm not sure that the rule applies to your "home" as much as it does your spouse... but I'm going to try. So... according to our church sermon today... if i show love for something or someone then the result will be me being "in love" with that something or someone. I'm really not doing a very good job of explaining myself. If I've lost you on this one, just skip to the next post that has pictures of my kids or something and enjoy that. :-)
Moral of my story...
As much as I've been fighting it (and might continue to fight it a little), "home" is Maumelle, AR and I have to try to Love it because Love is a choice not something that we fall into.
and... I promise pictures are coming tomorrow! We have been super busy the last 2-3 weeks.
4 comments:
Maumelle loves YOU, Hailey! So, are you guys going to be around for a while? You looked so great yesyerday. Did Molly tell you how crazy Sunday school was?
You made perfect sense to me. Actually I really needed to read that. I spend all my time whining about how much I miss Tulsa/Jenks and hate it here. I have to try harder.
Glad I'm not the only one going through a crisis :)
No really though... AR isn't so bad. Your only 5 hours from me! Hang in there.. you never where you just might be in another couple years??
great post, nice to see that softer side of you Hailey :)
love all the new pics!!
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