My Heart has Two Homes

Doorway

Walk right in, 
sit right down,
Baby let your hair hang down, oh yeah.

pumpkin

sheep and tractor

 

pumpkin

 

pumpkins 

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Pomegranates 

Back home!

One thing out of a million things that I look forward to when coming home is the drive down the lane to my parent's home. The ever-changing rice fields, the pomegranate tree, the walk to the front door, the smell of home, the decor my mother has added for the season, and then my mother's embrace.

Home. Catching up with my brothers, sister in laws, my aunts and uncles, my cousins, and especially my nieces and nephews. My brother Mat picked me up at the airport, he drove three hours and then three hours again. That is love.

Home for one month. Where every single moment counts as one hundred years. I plan to soak up every drop.

If you happen to be in Willows please let me know, I would enjoy meeting you.

 



Comments

28 responses to “My Heart has Two Homes”

  1. I’m also going home on Monday — to see my mom. I am looking forward to seeing the family and good friends and hope to spend many memorable hours with my mother.

  2. Have a wonderful time! Wish I were there, but am on the other coast…:) if you ever land in NY let us east coasters know…:)

  3. My husband is at my parents’ house right now. I’m so jealous, cause he’s waking up to the smell of coffee, sitting around the pool, soaking in the sun. I’m getting a kid off to school.
    Hope your stay is fabulous.

  4. Everything French

    Enjoy your precious time with your family. It is always nice to go to a homecoming.
    Lille

  5. I know you will cherish every second – something I have gotten better at since reading your blog. Have a great time!
    PS. One day will you tell how you get over jet lag?!?

  6. Glad you are safe and sound. Isn’t it amazing how home “smells?” You can be blindfolded, and just the smell will tell you where you are. Enjoy your family.

  7. Savour every moment and just enjoy being with the people you love and who love you. Looking forward to your stories from home.
    P.S. Corey, I know you speak English and French and your children are bilingual. I am participating in a blogger challenge promoting language learning. The participants have been asked to argue “ What is the most important benefit of learning another language: Traveling experiences, Career, Love life or Brain power?”. If you would like to read why I think speaking more than one language is great, please visit my post and, perhaps vote for me, if you like my article:
    http://polonicahomeagain.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-benefits-of-learning-languages.html .
    Thank you! 🙂

  8. Laura McHugh

    Welcome home Corey. This is a splendid time of year in California. I’m just home from 2 weeks in France, where I listened to the mistrals banging the shutters, ate mounds of wonderful food and found my very own treasures at brocantes. I thought about you and your hunting a lot. What a charmed life you live to do that all the time.

  9. Amy Kortuem

    Welcome home! I love reading about the adventures in your “other home.”

  10. Shelley Noble

    So nice to read that someone good has such a wonderful family experience. I’m truly glad for you, Corey.

  11. Sharon Penney-Morrison

    Welcome to the US. Wish I lived closer, I would come and sit a spell and have a nice hot cup of coffee with you. Saving money for next spring!

  12. La Contessa

    OKAY I”M COMING!!!!!!!!!!!Just to say hello!I will figure out when and get back to you!When will you be down south for THE TALK!??

  13. You jogged my memory with that great song “Walk Right In.” Apparently it came out in 1963. I know you will have a wonderful time in Willows.

  14. Have fun “Aunt Coco”, plenty of munchkins to keep you busy.

  15. i am happy for everyone!enjoy!

  16. Cherish every moment, as I know you will. Have fun! I hope you participate in the costume making for Halloween. 🙂

  17. For sure soak it up and enjoy every second.
    Welcome Home!

  18. LIl aka Claudia

    Welcome home! I would love to meet your mom and see her garden, but I don’t think I’ll be able to get to Willows this time. If you come to Marin, let’s get together! Have fun with all your beautiful nieces and nephews and aunts and uncles and brothers and your mom!

  19. Welcome back to the U.S.

  20. Oh happy day! Being with family is the best. I am so happy you are home and visiting. I made my flight plans to fly home for Thanksgiving! I’m so excited I could…..well, you get the picture.
    Enjoy enjoy enjoy!

  21. Heather Lindstrom

    Welcome home Corey!!! Gorgeous post!!
    Cheers, Heather

  22. Welcome Home Corey
    I know how you feel…I am from a small town as well

  23. peggy braswell

    Welcome home! + I know your family is excited to see you + adored hearing about that brotherly love. xxpeggybraswelldesign.com

  24. Your post puts me in mind of Josephine Baker’s “J’ai Deux Amours.” I also have deux amours, mon pays et la France.

  25. Casual Cottage Chic

    Always enjoy your adventures in France AND in California, back in Willows. Will you be attending any Sunday flea markets with your mother while here?

  26. Welcome back to California, Corey!
    Does this mean that you will be sitting around the Thanksgiving table again with your family? I remember how special it was for you last year.
    I know you’re going to enjoy every minute and look forward to hearing about your wonderful family and adventures.
    Such beautiful Fall pictures!

  27. Marie-Noëlle

    I would love to tell you I’m in Willows… and to meet you by a rice field, under a pomegranate tree or behind a pumpkin…
    BUT I am now playing the couch potato in my own home… imagining you and your mum embracing lovingly …

  28. I’m forever torn apart – my heart is in Switzerland and my body elsewhere (mostly). Back from a choral week in Switzie – unforgettable, soul- and heart-filling with singing, music, talks, laughter and glorious Swiss landscapes. Many hugs, kisses, tears, seeing some of our families – missing others….
    Hero Husband said once: Je me sens déracinné (he feels uprooted) – HE didn’t know any longer where he really belonged. I have space for both – but I’m very much looking forward to going back home (once we’ve sold our house) and I hope that all my future travels will be just that… travels, hols, trips, excursions – no longer years and years away from Switzerland. But this we don’t know.
    Have a lovely stay at HOME – our hearts are much bigger than we think and all your beloved ones from the States also find their place in it when you’re in France. And you know it!!!!

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