Tag: home
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How IKEA Promotes Personal Growth…
Don’t let the cute image fool you. It was a weekend of labor and not necessarily a labor of love. Part of our nesting activities has been planning what kind of wardrobe situation would work best for us as our current one is included in the ensuite bathroom. Since we are planning on remodeling the…
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Home At Last!
Home after about 26 hours of travel door to door. No complaints here – it was just a long day. It’s good to be home with the animals and our things. Now, it’s all about catching up on laundry, reorganizing after having house/petsitters, and settling back into the routine. Anyway, got some things brewing that…
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Journey Home
Every now and then, I return to previous thoughts. This one is one of them, but perhaps from a different perspective point. There is a line in one of my favorite movies that I often consider relatable on many levels to my own way of thinking and place in this world. Jo says “I love…
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“Home”
Yesterday, I participated in an interview for someone doing research on the adoptee diaspora and was struck by a few thoughts stimulated by her questions. One of them is around my concept of ‘home’, which is a recurring question in my mind. Coincidentally, or not, I had just been talking to my brother for an…
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Nesting Challenges
With our settling in to the new “forever” home, I have been having some internal struggles. A home represents who one is both as individuals and as the whole unit of those who live in the shared space. Therefore, expressing my own style while combining that of M’s has challenges. To be fair, we do…
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Europe Phase Complete – Benvenuto a casa nostra!
Well, we moved to Europe just under a year ago (14th is one year!) with a plan to settle in France. We didn’t quite follow our original plan as M thought it would be a good idea for me to see the eastern part of the country before we decided to buy and settle closer…
