I miss

Some of you are very surprised when you find out over phone or email that I don't want to live here forever, or even past next July (when the next school year gets out). I will share some of my reasons why in some posts that have been brewing - and now feel like they're OK to share (now that I'm at the less than 12 months count down). It's taken the last 8 months (minus 8 days) to be able to articulate even to myself how I feel about living in the city of London and not in our beloved Utah, USA. Here's what I have on my "miss" list. I keep hanging onto to this post, thinking everyday of what I need to add, but that's enough already.

I miss (tried to bullet but ended up with the bizarre line spacing -give up):

-my family
-my husband's family
-our friends
-my husband (more in a forthcoming post about his work schedule)
-having friends (more in a forthcoming post about social life)
-my dog
-having space
-having my own house
-my laundry room
-my american sized fridge
-an oven large enough to bake more than six cookies at a time
-a tap that has WARM water (not one for hot and one for cold)

-the sun

-the big blue sky

-a yard with grass
-having a vegetable garden
-proper seasons
-the mountains
-the desert

-watermelons without seeds
-having friends & their kids over on weekends
-not sitting in traffic
-not feeling crowded
-Wild Oats/Whole Foods
-Costco
-being able to buy anything at a reasonable price (only exceptions: cheese and wine)

-solitude in nature
-easy parking
-feeling safe
-going for a walk without feeling like I'm just inhaling car exhaust
-being able to call more than one person I love (Euge) from my cell phone when I'm out and about

-being able to call more than one person I love (Euge) from home before 1pm my time
-being in the same, or near the same time zone, as my friends so that I can talk to them
-a high quality of life

There ya have it!