Katherine confessed as I watched her face from six thousand
or so miles away from me, “Yesterday was the first time I was homesick since I
got to Edinburgh!” I couldn’t help but smile and feel a little satisfied.
“I just wanted to go home!” It was our apple picking/pumpkin collecting combination that got her where her draw to home meet her belly.
Autumn holidays do it for me, too.
Her Nana visited, we were broadcasting on facebook about our
fun and there she was,
looking out the window of her flat at a castle. She was thinking
about going to a high school production of “West Side Story” in Glasgow, just
the thought of which made me chuckle. She was having the luxury of hanging out
with other intellectual religion majors and yet she missed picking apples in
the Tehachapi desert and rummaging through splinter laden pumpkin vines to find
just the right level of perfection in orange and green porch sitting friends?
I suppose it is possible. I suppose I would miss being with us, too.
I am listening to Celtic music and she is living amongst Celtic music yet she wanted to be here, sniffing the apple-cinnamon goodness rising from my crock pot.
I love being a Mommy. I love my babies, wherever and however
and at whatever stage each one finds his or herself.
Tonight it will be back to homework and chores and wrapping up the day-to-day, but amidst it all the fond memories of yesterday will continue to hold us close. If we are careful and gentle with those near memories, they will stay longer.
Welcome, memory-love, welcome.
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© 2012 by Julie Jordan Scott
Julie Jordan Scott has been a Life & Creativity Coach, Writer, Facilitator and Teleclass Leader since 1999. She is also an award winning Actor, Director, Artist and Mother Extraordinaire. She was twice the StoryTelling Slam champion in Bakersfield. She leads Writing Camp with JJS & this Summer will be traveling throughout the US to bring this unique, fun filled creative experience to the people wherever she finds the passion & the interest.
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