Stream of Consciousness Sunday

How do you feel about where you live?

So Fadra’s Sunday Stream of Consciousness this week offered up a prompt…see above…and I decided to bite. 

I love where I live. I have lived in two homes in my community, each within 6 blocks of the other. It isn’t exactly the community we originally chose. We wanted to live in the town just to our east but 20 years ago, home prices were an issue and we bought a house within the same awesome school district, planning to move in a few years.

Well, 2-3 years turned into 8 years. We realized this is where we belonged and the allure of the "fancier" community no longer made sense...wasn't us. We set down our roots. 


Our first home, lived in a city condo prior, had the most incredible karma…the good vibes. I don’t know if it was because we were broke, made our own fun and began raising our children there. Maybe it was because all the families we met were exactly in the same spot.

We eventually sold this home to a family who still lives there 12 years later. We know them and they love the house. They actually heard, after they moved in and from another family, that our house had good karma. Maybe we told people how we felt, probably so.

My biggest concern when we built our current home 12 years ago, only 6 blocks away, was can we duplicate the same vibes. Will it feel like our home? How do you recreate something special, that feeling? My friends assured me that we would.

I always knew that it was those inside the house, not the house, that made the good vibes. We got it right. We made it home. We will never move again…unless it’s to downsize but who knows. It’s home. It smells like us (not gross), our kids love their beds, we host so many holidays and impromptu dinners here, we hang on our big front porch and neighbors stop by. We aren’t going anywhere, unless the kids move us to a nursing home.

The good vibes are here and so is the Karma!

Phew! A lot in five minutes but the topic was a breeze for me!!!