"Home"

It was bound to happen sooner or later... I miss "Home."  Maybe I should clarify a bit.  I have had a lot of "homes" in the last few years.  There's the house where I grew up, where my parents live - and that will always be "home" for me.  Then there was the "home" I had the summer after high school graduation with my Grammy and then with my aunt and uncle.  I had a "home" in the dorms my freshman year of college.  The summer following that year I signed my very first lease and had a "home" for the next year with the best roommates I could have ever asked for.  Also that year I gained yet another "home."  I met my future in-laws and their house has become a "home" for me.  Then we got married and made a "home" out of our first place.  This summer, my "home" is in Houston.

Right now though, I guess I miss a place more than an actual house or apartment.  I miss Golden.  When we moved there after we got married it was so different for me.  I had never lived that close to a city before, never had to worry about traffic, never had to think about SO many people... I guess it was a little overwhelming.  However, as time passed, I got more used to those things and they don't bother me quite as much as they used to.  Granted, I'd rather not live "in town" forever, but it has grown on me. Golden isn't just a suburb of Denver though.  It has character.  It has charm.  It has nice people... and, nestled in the foot of the Rocky Mountains, it has the most spectacular views.  It is those views that I'm missing the most tonight.  I hate not being able to see what I have been able to see every day for the last year.  I miss "home."