Home Again Home Again Jiggity Jig!

Where is home I wonder? When I am in Alaska "home" is two places. It's the little hole in the wall where Joel and I live, but home is also Michigan, where my family is. This spring Joel and I were able to go "home"meaning Michigan, for a couple of weeks and here are some things we did there.

However, I first want to share with you some thoughts I have about "home", meaning Michigan. Here are some things I like about being there in the winter and some things that I am missing, in no particular order.

1. The most important one, my family!
2. The winter wind whipping on the old windows in my parents house and the pretty frost patterns that this process creates.
3. Touching the cold wood floor with my feet when I get out of bed on the first day of Christmas vacation while knowing I have a whole month before school begins again. (I think I am going to become a student again...)
4. Waking up to a honey do list from Mom and Dad and mom's credit card so Anna and I can buy whatever groceries we want to cook with.
5. Going skiing with my family and with Milan.
6. Podunk Michigan ski races.
7. TC restaruants including Mary's Kitchen Port, Amical, Potters Bakery, Bubba's, and The Omelette Shoppe.
8. The way my mom and dad smell when they give me hugs.
9. Playing Euchre or Scrabble with anyone from my family
10. Shooting the breeze with the Wunsch's while eat pistachio nuts.
10.5 Aunt Barbs Christmas Cookies (spritzes most importantly, but they're all good).
11. Christmas Eve at the Wunsch's
12. Christmas morning with my parents
13. Wet Snow
14. snuggling and giggling with my sisters
15. My niece and nephews.
16. The U.P.
17. Ingird
18. Uncle Freddy's Maple Syrup.

Things I don't miss:
1. Unlce Freddy's peanut brittle.

Ohh yeah things we did when we were home...

First listen to the song "Home" and ignore the part about loving anything more than Jesus Christ...

This song is one of our favorites aside from that line. We like the idea of thinking we are at home when were a together in our packrafts, on the side of mountains, camping at -10F,  in our teeny tiny apartment, and so on...