Home. That's where I'll be if you need me

I wanted to take the time to thank you all for your kind and supportive words and energies. I'd get you all into one big group hug if I could I appreciate you all so much.

Now, to let you know where I'm going on this mystery trip I mentioned in my previous post...

I'm going home.

We're packing up our bags for a little over a week and making the 12 hour drive to that grand old Garden State, with it's kitschy beach towns, greasy spoons and diners a plenty, abandoned places galore, pesky deer who jump in front of cars, disco fries, the weird smell when you cross the Delaware... home. For the first time in 6 months. I cannot even tell you how loud and hard my heart is singing for it. To be back where it's chilly right now and the leaves are just starting to turn yellow, orange and red. To see my family and my obnoxiously lovable siblings:

I'm the lightest haired one, on the right

and spend a day, an evening, or a few with some of the best friends I could have ever asked for, one of whom is getting married two days before we come back to the South...

I didn't realize how homesick I've been as this spring and summer have flown by in a flurry until just a few weeks ago when I've been pining to see my parents, to eat a taylor ham egg and cheese sandwich, to give my kid sister a noogie, to drive to the middle of nowhere to have pints with friends, to go to a diner or drive to the coast just to watch the ocean. I'm ecstatic that in a few short days I'll be there and I know the time will be over far too fast so I plan to spend as much time doing the things I miss with the people I miss as Hypnos and his sleepiness will allow.