Bad idea...

[Left Is Write]

It's been five years this month that we've lived in Idaho, in this house.

I made the mistake of pulling out our 2000 family scrapbook, looking at pictures of our beloved old house in Minnesota, and the movers packing, and then us moving into our new house. I looked even further back in the year at birthday parties and other events at our old house.

Now I'm more homesick than I ever been.

[xmas74]

1. I get like that too.

I see pics of the lighthouse on Lake Michigan and I get homesick. Heck, I get homesick when I see pics of decent snow!

[Left Is Write]

7. It's hard sometimes, isn't it?

[xmas74]

9. It is.

I get really homesick sometimes.

[aePrime]

2. Aside from the republicans

I find that there is very little wrong with Idaho.

But what do I know? I've rarely left, save for a two-year stint in Los Angeles.

[Left Is Write]

3. What's wrong with Idaho...

...is that it's not Minnesota.

I'm a born-n-bred Minnesotan, with Minnesota family roots going back to the turn of the 20th century. My people are there and my history is there. It's my home.

Idaho is nice enough, but no place can compete with my home.

[cassandra uprising]

4. Ah damn sister...

:hug:

Being homesick is horrible, but in a way, how profound it is that you have such a strong sense of family and history. Hang in there.

[Left Is Write]

8. Thank you...

I needed that hug. :hug:

[pitohui]

5. what part of idaho

great country, i love the bird of prey area & snake river

[Left Is Write]

6. Treasure Valley area.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

10. I have the same sort of scrapbook

A calendar scrapbook for the year 2000 that I made. The first half has photos of dear friends and family in Wichita. The second half has new friends in Pittsburgh. I live closer to Wichita now and am able to go visit friends there if I so choose, but I'm still very homesick.

No advice for the homesickness - just empathy! :hug:

[Left Is Write]

16. I have lots of scrapbooks...

:)

Family albums for each year, kid albums, vacation albums, a Christmas album full of our family Christmases from year to year...lots. It's a very relaxing hobby for me.

[Aristus]

11. Oh that's right, Left Is Write, you're right next door to me!

State-wise, that is. :-)

[Left Is Write]

19. We should have a Northwest DU meetup!

[MN ChimpH8R]

12. Why did you move to Idaho?

Just wondering...

Homesickness sucks. :hug:

[Left Is Write]

17. For my husband's job.

What really sucks is that his job - indeed his whole division of the company he worked for - was eliminated less than a year after we moved. By then we felt we were stuck for the time being. I was pregnant, we'd bought a house, and then 9/11 occurred and everyone was skittish about the economy. On the plus side, he did a career switch into an industry he's very happy with.

[WCGreen]

13. I live in the same town where I grew up....

My house was taken down a few years ago, put to sleep by devolpers and profit margins....

It's sad when you drive past your favorite place of all time and see an empty lot with a will build to suit sign right there where the living room use to be....

[Left Is Write]

15. No kidding! That would hurt.

My parents bought my childhood home in 1964. They sold it in 1992. It's on it's third owner now - the woman my parents sold it to just sold it last year.

I've never quite gotten over that. We drove past the house when I was home in July, and though it looks much different than when I was a child, I still saw the white house with the yellow trim.

[WCGreen]

21. It was pretty weird.. Especially sine they found bones i the yard

a couple of days ago....

[jus_the_facts]

14. My Dad thought Idaho was beyond perfection.....

....after livin' in Louisiana all his life..he and my Mom went up to Boise to visit friends and ended up comin' home...packin' their stuff and movin' up there for 5 years...my sister and her family moved up there 6 months later....I never did visit them while they all lived there as I thought they were delusional for doin' so...but they loved it...sigh...they all moved back down here eventually...but Daddy still always wanted to go back...my parents went to visit all the people they got to know up there this time 3 years ago and had to cut their vacation short as he got really sick while there and found out he had Leukemia. :cry: :hug:

here he was standin' on a moutain somewhere around Sun Valley...

[Left Is Write]

18. Sun Valley is beautiful...

and here are some more hugs for you. :hug:

[LaraMN]

20. We'll take you back!

OR ELSE!:rofl: