Coming Home — Yoga Girl

You know how you attach a song to each summer or season? This summer mine has been Castle on the Hill. As we started this summers travels I often listened to the lyrics of this song and told my daughter this is how I feel when I go home to New Jersey. Last summer we were lucky enough to be vagabonds, traveling for over 7 weeks from place to place. Changing arrival and departure dates as we pleased. We tagged it #bestsummerever. At the end, upon returning home I said that I could have continued this forever. I loved the travel, freedom and spontaneity of that summer.

This summer travel was condensed to 3 weeks and had more of a strict schedule. Although I felt happy and safe in each place, it didn’t quite feel like home to me. I don’t know what changed or why. Hailey and I just watched the video for Castle on the Hill and I got homesick but not homesick for New Jersey and where I grew up. I got home sick for Brian, our home we have built and the community we are a part of. Ok mostly Brian, Hailey and I all being together again as a family. Brian & Hailey are home to me now, not my childhood memories or my childhood home – Brian & Hailey. I guess all parents go through this at some point, when the gears shift and life changes without you even noticing. We love you Georgia, Tennessee and New Jersey but it’s time to go home - California here we come, where we belong.

Castle on the Hill video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ibBPhiaG0