Since leaving Montrose, nine months ago, we’ve had the opportunity to try on many different homes:
What’s Home feel like in Lafayette, Indiana? Norfolk, Virginia? Oriental, North Carolina?
What’s Home like with three kids?
Is Home on a sailboat?
Is it where you grew up?
Is Home a tangible thing?
Is it a box made of brick and drywall or is it people?
Does Home have a shape and color?
Is it a geographic location?
Can Home move?
Can it expand? Retract?

Crossword puzzles, countless euchre games; evenings on the couch in the den, mom and I critiquing House Hunters and House Hunters International (“did she really just say that?!?)

Doing the things in Detroit that we can’t do in Montrose: sit in traffic, take pictures of things that are “Made In Detroit”, eat gyros and eggs.

Bananagrams on the deck, feeding the chiminea, texting Dan to remind him about how he blew up the previous chiminea when he was sixteen.

Our very first ever – and then a second – euchre tournament courtesy of the Katalpa Club (I WON the second euchre tournament!)

Watching for the wild cat to come out from under the deck every evening at five before eight (seriously, the cat was like clockwork).

Drinking Chianti out of the wee glass; everyone telling dad to quit putting snacks on the table because we JUST ATE dinner and NO, we are not hungry!
And then, having to say goodbye.

Home is Fribourg, St. Clair Shores, Yvonne & Fabio & little Antonio. Home is Tom & Melisa, Dan & Karen. Home is Jurg & Maria; Pete & Ryan; Debbie & Marty; Silivia-StephanO-Thierry-Anthony. It’s Vicki & Jonno, Sally & Jeff, Cindy. It’s Grams.

Home is The Little House. Home was Free Range. Home is lots of things. But mostly, Home is wherever we are, as long we we’re together.
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You’ve had quite a blast. Send me your new contact info when you get settled in.
You gave me the free HP cartridge.
Sara, what a beautiful piece you wrote. It created a few tears here. Love you guys.
Thank you my sweetheart daughter so well addressed !!. Mom and i have always focused on home and family. i was so happy to steal her away at Seventeen (my queen) !!!! all my love dad
So we’ll written Sara! You have a talent that’s to be sure. I get goosebumps every time I read your posts. Annnnd, just to set the record straight, I was merely testing out the structural fortitude of that chiminea for dad…..
…. With gasoline.
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