i have yet to make my way home. after a decade - i am finally ready for the move. however, hubby isn't so easily convinced. i wish you all the luck... we go thru these debates every other month. the only positive i can give you is that it's cheaper out this way. especially the south....keep us updated!
Monday, July 20, 2009 10:19:00 PM
[Image] My husband and I have been arguing for days about where we want to live. I could die the happiest woman in the world, if I could live out the rest of my days in Hawai'i, but not without my husband. And... well.... husband doesn't want to live not one more year on this rock that sits in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I always knew that this day would come, that I'd have to bid farewell to my island home. It is definitely here, sitting at my doorstep, invading my life.
I wish I was like I was when I was younger... sometimes. At any given time, I could be packed and ready to go in an hour. Ready to go anywhere the wind would blow me. I'm not like that anymore. I don't want to uproot... AGAIN... to start out somewhere else. I don't want to leave my family or the comforts of being home. I don't want to leave the beautiful ocean and the emerald-green mountains. I wish I could live all my days right here, in this special place. (Well, it's special to me!)
I've just been crying myself to sleep every night. When I think about leaving, I cry, even if I'm seated at my desk at work. And I don't know what's different about me now, that makes me so emotionally connected to this place. It's different. Maybe I'm more mature now and appreciate everything around me. I miss my family already and I miss them all equally. I'm going to miss all of my brothers football games and I so wanted to be here for them. I won't be able to see my beautiful nieces and handsome nephew grow up. I won't be able to have conversations with my parents or my brother and sister-in-law. I miss all of that already! If and when I do bear children, they will never know this place the way I do. They'll just be visitors in a strange land.
I want to petition the heavens on my behalf, to allow me the privilege of living in Hawai'i for all of my mortal days but that would be selfish of me. Both of my husbands' children live on the mainland and I can't compete. I have not stopped crying. I can't seem to focus on the positive. Heaven help me! What are the positives?
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Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:43:00 AM
oh neena, i had no idea... whatever happens, this will always be your home...i hope things work out in your favor...somehow...
Saturday, July 18, 2009 4:04:00 AM
i have yet to make my way home. after a decade - i am finally ready for the move. however, hubby isn't so easily convinced. i wish you all the luck... we go thru these debates every other month. the only positive i can give you is that it's cheaper out this way. especially the south....keep us updated!
Monday, July 20, 2009 10:19:00 PM