The Day I Left Home

-
I have left home several times now, once for college, once for my apartment, and then the most recent was for my own home. I figured I would tell a little story for each time i left home. 

College
It was a warm August day. My whole family packed into two cars, along with all my college stuff. It was a whirl wind of a day, between the waiting in line, and then everyone helping pack all my stuff into bins and then dropping it off into my dorm room. Then meeting my new roommates and their families, and getting used to this new life im living. We realized we were missing a few things that i needed and because i didnt have a car on campus mom and dad drove me out to the store. When it came time to say goodbye mom started to cry and then i started to cry. It was tough to say goodbye, but it was the start of a new adventure. 

Lowell
Last september i had to rent my own apartment to finish up my degree. It was in Lowell, MA. This is also where i met mark and started a relationship with him. However, just like in college, we all got into two cars, and loaded up all my stuff. Mom and Michael helped me bring all my stuff up to the 3rd floor and into my apartment. It was really hard saying good bye. I was older at this point and i was on my own. In college i had roommates, friends, classes. Here in lowell, i was going to live alone, and take one class a week. I knew i was going to be lonely. When it came time to say goodbye, i cried one again as did mom. 

My First Home
Even though my new home was only 6.7 miles away from mom and dad and about 10-15 minutes away depending on traffic. When it finally came time for the day that i was going to move in, it was hard to leave my parents house. Mom was trying to keep Mark and I there as long as we could stay. It also seemed that any time i went there right after i moved, she always tried to have me stay longer. We have gotten past that point, but it was still really hard on my mom. It wasnt as hard for me this time around since like i mentioned above, i wasnt that far from home. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Happy New Years

-
Every year people make all kinds of resolutions... and typically people drop them by the second week in january, or if they are lucky, they can hold on until february. I had seen online the other day someones resolution was for people to start loving who they were and to accept themselves and to stop trying to always change.  NOW, i love that resolution and i hope people are able to accept who they are, except in my case i am not healthy, and not only do i want to become healthy, but i am stretching for a much larger goal, and i hope that i can accomplish it! Every year we always see the magazines post online and publish in their magazines people who are now half their size, and the before and after pictures. I want to be one of those people. I want to work and push hard to become someone who is proud for becoming healthy and fit.  I do have something as motivation, and that would be my cruise that is next year. I DO NOT want to look the way i currently am on the cruise, nor do
Read more

Safe Haven

-
Image
 **SPOILER ALERT** I typically do not like to read the books that get turned into movies because i will usually end up hating the book or the movie. However, when i was up at bowling i got talking to one of the other girlfriends who hang out up there and we got talking about Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks. She suggested to read it, and she even gave me her copy of the book.  Ive had it for a few months now, and still didnt read it. I started about a month ago, and for the first few chapters, the book followed the movie, so i could almost see the movie playing in my head as i read. So i put the book down for a while. Just this past week i picked it back up again, and i finished it within days. The story is different.  In the movie Alex finds out about Katie's past because of the "wanted" poster up with her picture, however it really plays more into him finding out and its more a gradual thing in the book. It also shows her relationship with Jo more than in the movie,
Read more

Falltime Bucket List Update #5

-
Image
Visit a Corn Maze  On 10/23/14 Mark and I went to a corn maze before Michael's football game. It was shaped like a vikings hat, and it was actually really fun. I had been to one when i was little and i had always wanted to go back to one. I was finally glad that i found one that was affordable! Last year all the corn mazes i had found cost about $30 or more. This one was $7! Perfect and i can not wait to go again next year.  Visit a Fall Festival  On 10/25/14 the town of Essex, CT held their annual pumpkin festival. I had been many years prior when i was babysitting someone, and i loved it! This year i made sure to look up the date, and when Mark got out of work we drive 30 minutes. The festival was fun! They had all the pumpkins that were carved and lit up. They had a band playing music and food and hot chocolate. It was a nice little festival to walk around together with my boy.  Carve Pumpkins  As you know we had bought pumpkins a few weeks ago,
Read more