This is my first time participating in "That's What She Said" which is a blog link up that takes the words of a women and uses that for inspiration.
I have been a fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder for such a long time, I can't remember not loving her. This is the perfect time for me to start linking up to "That's What She Said" hosted by Mrs. A-Ok and Courtney Noel.
So now, my words inspired by none other than Laura Ingalls Wilder: "Home is the nicest word there is."
I have had a love/hate relationship with my house in the twenty-five years I’ve lived here, but the time I fell in love with it was the time I was in my deepest, darkest space emotionally.
I remember the moment: I was kneeling on my bedroom floor, the back window open. I was crying. I was so alone. My son was a baby, my daughters completely dependent on me as well and I felt I didn’t know which way to go or what to do next or even what to do right then.
I cried and spoke, mumbled and then a bird answered from outside my window.
It was as if the bird was in my house. It was as if the house became the bird. In that moment, I felt as if my house was my steadfast companion in all of it. My house loved me even if I was finicky and ignored her needs, my house would be here for me even if it felt like no humans were.
My house turned from an abstraction into a more-real-than-most-of-the-rest-of-my-life life.
Last Summer the house got rewired and after years of no air conditioning even here in Bakersfield where it is due to be 107 degrees today. To go to sleep and be cool and to wake up and be cool feels like a miracle. My home forgives me for not completely redecorating after it was done.
There is time, I am reminded.
My living room is my primary space of “hanging out” and it is almost where I want it to be.
My relationship with my home is all love now, even if she gets annoyed with me and in some moments, I get annoyed with her. We’re a work in progress. And that’s ok, because home truly is the nicest word their is.
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