I'm winding up a busy week after getting back from Seattle/Vashon. Having just returned from one island, the kids and I spent Easter weekend on another island - Chincoteague Island, VA. It's a short bike ride over a bridge to a National Wildlife Reserve, Assateague Island - with stunning, undisturbed beaches on the Atlantic. I think we needed a bit of island life to help us reenter city life.
During the time on Vashon, I made the very difficult decision to give up my option to purchase the home we had been living in there. Things got too complicated and too expensive. However, it has made me - and the kids - really consider what "home" is. We've traveled a lot and always considered Vashon home. But, owning a home on Vashon felt like a way to "guarantee" that it is home. In our own ways, we each got to the realization that home is wherever we are and that Vashon is still our anchor and owning a home - or not - doesn't change that. Somehow, working through that has made this week in DC feel more settled and more "ok" than it had before. Right now, we're in DC and it's our home for now. Vashon is where we will keep going back to and we'll make the most of the adventures we have when we travel the world!
During the time on Vashon, I made the very difficult decision to give up my option to purchase the home we had been living in there. Things got too complicated and too expensive. However, it has made me - and the kids - really consider what "home" is. We've traveled a lot and always considered Vashon home. But, owning a home on Vashon felt like a way to "guarantee" that it is home. In our own ways, we each got to the realization that home is wherever we are and that Vashon is still our anchor and owning a home - or not - doesn't change that. Somehow, working through that has made this week in DC feel more settled and more "ok" than it had before. Right now, we're in DC and it's our home for now. Vashon is where we will keep going back to and we'll make the most of the adventures we have when we travel the world!
Easter at Assateague Island - on the "other" coast
Rosie -making the most of being a DC Dog
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