Missing Home... or Leaving Home?

This weekend I had the pleasure of going to Ogallala and visiting my Grandparents and many of my friends! I guess I didn't realize how much I missed all of my friends and family in Ogallala until this weekend. And then I started thinking to myself (and partially out loud...). Was I visiting home, or was I leaving my home to go visit a strangely familiar place. I was only in Ogallala for 18 months, but it still felt like home. Maybe it was the welcoming comunity, my amazing friends, or the fact that I adjusted so easily, but whatever it was, it made Ogallala seem like home. Ogallala was the perfect place for me. I knew when I walked into that Middle School the my first day (the first day of second semester) that I was going to fit in with the people here. And I did, I have 6 amazing friends from Ogallala that accepted me into their litte group shortly after I moved in. We are all so different, but we are also similar and get along amazingly. I cried and cried and cried when I found out that we would be moving back here. I was a little excited to get out of Syracuse when we moved out to Ogallala. I don't fit in, I have friends here, but they don't even compare to my friends in Ogallala.

But as I am faced with some of theses challenges, I am reminded of how extremely blessed my family is. Dad got his job in Omaha back with in 2 weeks of getting "laid of", that is truely amazing. With the economy the way it is, most people in this situation are still looking for a job. We have a place to live, we grumbled and complained while we were in Ogallala about how we wished this house would sell, so we could finish our new house there, but it never sold, and that was truely amazing.

One thing I have learned through switching schools and moving is that the friends that really care about you will do their best to keep in contact even after you move away. All six of my best friends in Ogallala have done so, and I hope they keep it up. :) And as much as I grumble about having to go to the orthodontist every 2 months, it gives me a reason to go to Ogallala and see my friends and family. :)