The Wonderful Place Known as Home

This week, I've been stuck at home, taking care of several little sickies. We literally haven't gone anywhere, due to a fussy baby with a cold and a case of the pukes with Emma. (although, I did escape to Target last night after my poor girlies were tucked in bed, where I found altogether too many fun things on clearance... but I digress).

Sometimes, that's what life is like as a stay-at-home-mom. Days on end at home, where you sometimes feel as if you've lost connection with the outside world and you start to wonder if the price of eggs might have gone up in your absence.

And sometimes, I can sense what some people are thinking when they discover that I'm a stay-at-home mom of three at the tender young age of 25, when they find out that I got married at nineteen and had children RIGHT away. "oh, the poor girl, tied down so young to a husband and a bunch of kids... doesn't she wish she could have experienced so much more? Travel, and see the world, etc. etc.?"

But, you see, what these sorts of people do not realize is that the world has come to me. I do not live in just any ordinary house, no, indeed!

I live in a castle, filled with princesses who daily find adventures of the most exciting sort. Why, just yesterday, a handsome prince came to visit us, riding atop a most glorious steed.
Sometimes, I live in the jungle, or a zoo, where ferocious animals of several furry varieties wait around the corners, ready to jump out and surprise you.
Occasionally I live in Paris (say that Par-ee, please), with little girls "in two straight lines", and we find ourselves strolling past the Eiffel Tower just as casually as you please.
And then there are the times when I live in a busy, bustling restaurant, with orders flying to and fro and customers coming regularly through the doors. It's not everyone who gets the privilege of living with two gourmet chefs who prepare you such culinary delights as Pear Cherry Chocolate Lemon Pie and Pepper Lettuce Onion Soup.
Sometimes I live on a farm, where the crops grow in neat little rows and I'm fairly positive you can smell the fresh produce ripening in the sun, waiting to be picked by little farmer hands clad in Hello Kitty gardening gloves. We have even come across the rare talking pig from time to time.
Once, I found myself in Africa, surrounded by elephants of many different shapes and sizes. I was able to watch two safari explorers chase a herd of zebras with my own two eyes. It was quite the thrilling experience!

So, as you can see, homebody though I may be, I certainly do not lack for adventure.

Someday, I hope to be able to really and truly travel the world and see and experience many different things. I pray that we will come to a season of our lives when we can do just that, with and without our children. But for now, I am content where God has me, here at home with my three little ones.

For, you see... I've learned that no matter what it is that you do, our horizons are only small if we imagine them to be so.