Homesick

It is October.

The festivities of this month begin the season of the year that make me miss Oregon so very much.

The perfect fall weather, the colorful trees, running in the woods with crunchy leaves underfoot, the crisp cool mornings, and the perfect sunshiny 60-70 degree afternoons, the gazillion mom and pop coffee shops with way better coffee than what we have here...sigh.

KY has beautiful fall like weather here, don't get me wrong, however the trees don't even compare to the beauty of the trees in OR.

October is my mom's birthday, my almost 6 year old guy's birthday, and then of course Halloween.

And it makes me sad to miss out on the could of beens - a birthday gathering with a face to face meeting with my sweet mom, cousins gathered together in trick-or-treat attire, a 6 year old's birthday party with not just friends but with cousins, and aunts, and uncles, and grandparents, and the likes...

I love it here, and the things we have, and the friends we've made...

But I miss family.  And all our friends back in Oregon who were family.

So much.

I had to put in my request at work for holiday scheduling - yep, I'm a RN, and we work holidays incase you forgot.  I replied with " put me down for whatever pays the most," since I don't have family events to go to, I'm not picky on dates.  FYI we either work the eve or the day on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year.   So even if I wanted to brave the airport with 3 young kids, during the busiest and most expensive time of year to travel, I can't since work-wise I won't have a long enough gap of time off from work to make actually doing the 8 hour flight with my family worth it...

and with that, I'll take my leaky eyes to bed.

Really, though, I am so very blessed.  So very blessed to have this extended family that I love and miss so terribly.