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So I was watching the Country Music Awards last night.
(Taylor Swift Entertainer of the Year? Seriously? Not happy.)
Big surprise, I know.
And something just wapped me in the head.
I started thinking.
As I do so very vey well.

There is really nothing like home.
The feel of home.

Where you were born and raised.

Where you had your first kiss, and your first date.

Where you stayed out late many of nights and had one too many.

That place that makes your soul smile.

Home.

Country makes me feel relaxed.
 It reminds me of how I grew up. Where I was raised.
 The respect, love, and meaning that went into each sweat, tear, and smile.
This Miranda Lambert song gets me.
Home always cures when I'm feeling sad or lonely.
It just cures everything.
My heart is smiling just thinking about it.

I know they say you cant go home again.
I just had to come back one last time.
Ma'am I know you don't know me from Adam.
But these handprints on the front steps are mine.
And up those stairs, in that little back bedroom
is where I did my homework and I learned to play guitar.
And I bet you didn't know under that live oak
my favorite dog is buried in the yard.

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself
if I could just come in I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.

Mama cut out pictures of houses for years.
From 'Better Homes and Garden' magazines.
Plans were drawn, concrete poured,
and nail by nail and board by board
Daddy gave life to mama's dream.

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself.
If I could just come in I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.

You leave home, you move on and you do the best you can.
I got lost in this whole world and forgot who I am.

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it
this brokenness inside me might start healing.
Out here its like I'm someone else,
I thought that maybe I could find myself.
If I could walk around I swear I'll leave.
Won't take nothing but a memory
from the house that built me.

There is just something about it that makes me....me.

Right when I hit those city limits I feel a since of relief.

I am home.

I am in my comfort zone.

I am where I belong.
Most times when I visit my hometown I go by the house I grew up in.
I exam the bent basketball goal on the garage where we played basketball for hours.
Where we spray painted our own lines to make sure it felt like a real game.
The front porch my dad worked so hard on.
The front yard where my mom planted flowers thorn bushes use to lay and get stuck in my feet.
The neighbors house where I found friendships.
The lot across the street where we would play football and baseball.
The street we sold lemonade in.
The parking lot I tried to stop my go cart with my foot in.
Which I would not advise. BTW.
The tree my brother and I made our fort and kept secrets.
You can't take those memories away.
Those are the things in life that are important.
Those are the things in life that make us who we are.

The loving people we surround ourselves with and the memories made along the way.

I may be different than most people.

If I could I'd live live next door to my parents for life.
I want to live in a small town where people are raised with respect.
I want to have a backyard that is filled with water of a lake or pond.
I want to let God's nature surround my life with peace.
I cannot wipe a smile off my face when I am in the middle of no where listening to country music with people I love.
 I enjoy seeing kids running in the streets. Riding bikes. Playing hide-n-seek.
I just enjoy the simple life.
The simple things in life.

That are pure joy to me.

I love home.

I miss home.

(And YES, these are all pictures from home. They are from my high school years. I was going to do younger but my hair was a little wack back in the day. Sorry.)

What do you love about home?

What's your favorite kind of music?
Did you watch the Academy of Country Music Awards last night?
I am so bummed Jason Aldean didn't get Entertainer of the Year :(
Taylor Swift is so.......yesterday.