Andrew Largeman: You know that point in your life when you realize the house you grew up in isn’t really your home anymore? All of a sudden even though you have some place where you put your s***, that idea of home is gone.
Sam: I still feel at home in my house.
Andrew Largeman: You’ll see one day when you move out it just sort of happens one day and it’s gone. You feel like you can never get it back. It’s like you feel homesick for a place that doesn’t even exist. Maybe it’s like this rite of passage, you know. You won’t ever have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it’s like a cycle or something.
“Garden State,” 2004
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As a single girl living in an apartment on my own in Louisville, I craved home. The kind you make. When I married my husband we created it and I never missed the one I had growing up.
Yesterday I picked up some magnets to help teach Jackson his letters. Every glance to the fridge surprises me because I realize that we are creating the home Jackson and Hannah will remember. These are their magnets, not just mine.
Someone posted this on Twitter a couple weeks ago, and I watch it at least twice a day (and tear up as many times). It (a commercial of all things) excites me to think of the adventures we will have as a family. The home we will create.
P.S. I will find my camera battery charger this week. These dimly-lit iPhone pics are driving me bananas:)
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Awesome post!! Loved it!!
It is weird to think that I’m creating the home my kids will be homesick and nostalgic for someday. I think about the pictures I take and how they’ll look at them 25 years from now. What will they think of the clothes I dressed them in and how I cut their hair? It’s kind of sobering to realize that although my life just feels like plugging along one day at a time, I’m actually creating the memories of their childhoods.
Hi Joanna,
Isn’t it weird to know that our everyday life will be the memories burnt into their minds and hearts forever? I have a hard time grasping that sometimes. I hope you are doing well! Thanks so much for supporting my site over the past year. I hope you enter some of the giveaways this month!
Warmly,
Amy
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