Homesick

I've been feeling rather homesick recently. I've been gone for about seven years now, and it's been hitting me really hard recently. Don't get me wrong, Florida is a nice enough place to live. I just miss the mountains, the cool breezes that move the clouds up against the foothills, the drizzling rain. Most of all I miss my family. I spent over eight years away when I was in the service, I spent a little over two back there after I got out, and have been gone ever since.

Sure it's not the same place anymore, I realize that. I don't know if I want to live there again or not. i just know how I feel. Right now it's hitting me really hard. Maybe it's because I just had a daughter, and I want my parents to see her. maybe it's because my Mom has only seen my kids a handful of times. It's hard sometimes to think that they are all 3,500 miles away.

Just a passing whine........I promise there will be very few of these.