So, awhile ago, I had posted about things that make a place feel like home.

Then we went on vacation and came back to Seattle.

And it didn’t feel like we were coming home – but like we were coming back to Seattle.

We spent time at the Oregon coast with family after the vacation to the board game convention in Dallas, and, on the way back, it felt even LESS like home than it had the week before as we had travelled back!

I miss family and friends. Don’t get me wrong – I’m SO grateful I have my husband, else I’d go completely insane, but I still don’t feel settled here. And because of it, I’m struggling with feeling like decorating our house for Christmas — the place doesn’t feel like ours (and who am I kidding – it isn’t, we’re renting it), and we won’t be there FOR Christmas, so why bother putting up any decorations?

Can you tell I’m struggling a bit with this?