What is Home?

the kids built a snowman this week
in front of our Williston home

This is an interesting question for our family these past couple years:  What is "home"?  So since I've been pondering it, I thought I should ask the kids.  I'm sure they're thinking about home now, too.  We left our home in the states to move to Armenia, lived there for two years and then left our home in Armenia to come back home here.  Now we're waiting to see what's next in our life and wondering where our next home will be?  In the midst of moving all over the place...  what is home anyway?

Benjamin:  Home is where you are comfortable and can relax.
Hannah:  Home is where your things are and where you can be cozy.
Ruth:  It's where you eat and sleep and are safe from storms...  it's where you're loved.
Elijah:  Home has an oven and a fridge and a bed...  *giggling*

I think home is where your family and things are and where you know what to expect.  Living overseas, we've had to think about a new culture we've tried to learn how they do things and don't do things.  I think each little home is, in a way, it's own little culture.  I can remember going to friends' houses and being surprised (pleasantly and not so pleasantly) about what they could do or could not do...  how far they could go before their parents had had enough.  If they got in trouble right away or not, etc...  If we could play loudly or had to play quietly, inside or outside, if messy is acceptable or not...  Then, I would try to act accordingly!  When you're at your own home, with your own family, you have spent every day of your life learning these things.  So it is comfortable, cozy, safe...  and usually, it does have a bed and a fridge, too!  Hopefully it also has lots of giggles as well!!