Do you ever get restless?
J & I laugh about our one-year itch. After one year of marriage we moved from SC to the mountains of NC. After one year there, we moved to India. We managed to stay there almost two years although we did move houses during that time. We've been in this house for almost exactly two years. Hum....
Thankfully we live not five minutes from windy country roads that feed my restless soul. The girls and I play games like we turn the opposite way out of the Walmart parking lot, take the third real road on the right and see where it takes us. (We have lots of not "real" roads out here and I'm terrified of ending up being chased by someone with a shotgun at the end of one of those so I avoid them. Real roads to me equals lines painted on the asphalt.)
Kiran always complains at first. But we always end up in a fascinating game of "I Spy" and her saying, "I'm so excited to see all this!" Its days like today that I just want to drive up 221 until I hit Blowing Rock and find us a place to live with a view of Grandfather Mountain. Why am I restless? I love my little life here- my cute house and fenced in backyard and the nearest Target not being 45 minutes away. But I still get restless.
What do you do when you get restless? Or am I the only one?
8 comments:
Be satisfied where you are and bloom where you're planted!
Don't move unless God moves you.
Umm, I don't think this other person that commented really "got" your post. Or maybe they just don't know you. Oh well.
When I got restless we had a baby!! (Just kidding...I think I was more restless because I wanted to have a baby so badly that it hurt.)
Wahoo, this MUST mean that baby Caskey #3 on the way!! :)
I know just what you mean! I've been back in the states for 4 months, and I'm already wishing I was back overseas, but then when I was overseas I missed life in America. I kinda like how my life has been really transient the past seven years or so, but also want to just settle in one place for a while sometimes!
That's SO funny! Like you, I also get a restless itch -- see something new, experience something new -- but it can totally be satisfied with a vacation (especially if I have to get shots or apply for a visa... you know, the markers of a REAL vacation).
But I am always SO GLAD to be home. I crave that sense of permanence. I think Mark and I (especially with both our parents divorcing when we were teenagers) spent so many years feeling like each home was only temporary -- we knew when we moved in exactly when we would be moving out -- that we couldn't WAIT to get somewhere with no move-out date on the books. Hence becoming homeowners at 23. (Rush much?)
So my solution would be go on vacation - but apparently that won't work for you since you just (JUST... like 10 minutes ago) got home from Hawaii.
From our recent phone conversations, though, it seems like you might have some options to scratch that itch within the next few years. In the meantime, I'm with Liz -- make another baby!!!
I'm the exact same way. I crave change. Hopefully that will change eventually - it's so much WORK to change all the time! You've seen and done so much and I know there is much more to come. I like your Wal-Mart game, what a fun mommy you are.....my mom did the same thing when we were little!
Five words from LaurenPeters: Four apartments in six years. Reason #811 that we get along.
If you get really restless one day you can drive up to Asheville and visit me:)
Thanks girls ;) I'll be sure to tell J that this is a good reason to try for #3. You think he'll go for it?
LP i *heart* you.
Tara- I am TOTALLY going to do that! Let's pick a day! I've been reading your blog so jealous b/c you are in the mountains. I never thought about coming!!! WOOHOO!
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