"Yet there with my love, I'm home"

 Shaina and I began our monday morning with more tea, toast, packing, and watching Fiddler on the Roof with Nanny. It was one of the two movies she had, and my first choice. Since being Golde my junior year, i have a special place in my heart for that musical. okay, thats a little cliche, but i did enjoy watching the movie again. Shai and i quoted all our favorite lines and laughed at them even before they were uttered from their character's lips. And although i've always loved the part where Tevye demands to see the sewing machine, but this time i fell in love with Hodel's song "Far From the Home I Love".  i guess cause i've been away from "home" the past year it really touched me and all. sentimental, i know.  haha. but as sad as the song is, theres a certian hope to it. she leaves the home she loves. why? to be with the man she loves... because, as today's quote explains, with her love she is home.

the start of the song says "how can i hope to make you understand why i do what i do, why i must travel to a distant land, far from the home i love." how often have i felt this way when asked why i left Thailand for Mississippi? :P
it then says "once i was happily content to be as i was, where i was, close to the people who are close to me, here in the home i love"
i was.
"who could see that a man could come that would change the shape of my dreams? Helpless now i stand with him, watching other dreams grow dim. oh, what a melancholy choice this is: wanting home, wanting him. closing my heart to every hope but his, leaving the home i love. there where my heart has settled long ago, i must go, i must go. who could imagine i'd be wandering so far from the home i love. yet, there with my love, i'm home."
obviously, i would change some of those lines. hahaha. but i think by now you guys get where i'm going with this. -> i was happily content with my little life in Thailand, but then God changed the shape of my dreams when He called me to Hattiesburg. so there i must go :) cause with my love, i'm home.
that line really made me smile, cause my love is everywhereeee. here, in beautiful london with its crazy weather - i'm home. back in thailand with its happy people and intense heat - i'm home. in hattiesburg with my new friends and responsibilities - i'm home. and someday when i go to heaven and get to know see my love better, i'll feel more at home than i ever have before. :) yay for love!
anyhow. those are my thoughts, and i'll fill u in with our travel details later. byeee!