I'm home! Stepping off the plane, the humidity here hit me hard and I felt like I stepped into a sauna right away. I knew it was coming though that's for sure. You can't expect anything less when it's August in Virginia. My sweet Dad picked me up from the airport and it was so good to see him. I love my dad! The house looks so good. Mom has done such a fabulous job fixing up the new living room and I love the new red couch and all the decorations. I absolutely love coming home. Our house feels so homey and it brings back so many memories of when I actually lived at home and didn't just visit for a week or two at a time. I can't believe it's been 4 years since I graduated and moved away from home. Time flies so fast!
My flight was great! Airports are my most favorite place to be. Most likely due to the fact that they are where one goes to travel and travleing is my passion. I love to fly. I love lay overs. I love picking up a new book from the book store and enjoying a nice herbal tea upon waiting to board. I love people watching and wondering where everyone is headed to for their destinations. I always seem to run into people I know at the air port. I ran into Jenny Water's family who were flying out to Utah for her weddding on Tuesday. Another friend from the singles ward was on my flight to Richmond. He is in dental school and just got back from Alaska on a 2 week expedition cleaning people's teeth out in the middle of nowhere. How fun! But like I said, I had a great flight. I had my window seat (which I love), my diet coke, and my favorite book. I'm reading Eat, Pray, Love for the 2nd time. It made me remeniss on all of my travels and our recent trip to Italy. I want to go back so bad. I want to go to southern Italy, where the author spends 4 months living. I would reccomend this book for sure! It's so good! It's about a woman who tries to find herself by embarking on a year long jounrey spending 4 months in India, Indonesia, and Italy. Check it out!
When I got home, mom greeted me with a big happy hug. I love my moms hugs. I love everything about my mom. She is such an amzing woman. She is so strong. She is so selfless and helpful and I admire so manythings about her. I was talking with my parents and I just had this overwelming sense of gratitude for them. I am so blessed to be born of goodly parents who love me and have always wanted what was best for me. I know I was not an easy child to raise and I love my parents so much! I am so glad that they are happily married and I love hearing them compliment each other. I makes me so happy :-) I'm excited to see Grannie and Papa and all my friends. I sure do love coming home.
"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it." — Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)
The author reminds me so much of myself. “Like most humanoids, I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the ‘monkey mind’– the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit, and howl. From the distant past to the unknowable future, my mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined.”- Elizabeth Gilbert.
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