Home Depot

Coming to a new city. A new State. A new part of the country means that you don’t know where anything is. You rely on your GPS, smart phone and sense of adventure. Then you leave plenty of time to get where ever it is you going just in case you get lost.


Eventually you start to feel more comfortable with your regular routines. You can make it to and from work, the grocery store and church. Then you branch out even more and you can remember the general direction of your favorite mall or the post office. You may even be able to find an alternate route as your confidence builds. This is when you feel as if this new place you are living is starting to become more of a home. Or at least a place you can feel comfortable for the next year until the next move when you enter that state GPS dependence again.

Sean and I experienced the feeling of comfort and confidence one evening when we were on our way into Kohl’s and woman stopped to ask if we knew where a Lowe’s was. Our initial reaction was to look at each other as if we were lost children but then that little light that each of us has in our heads turned on in mine and I remembered I knew exactly where a Home Depot was! (Now, I know they are not the same thing but Home Depot is better. So, really I was helping her out double. 1. Telling her how to get there and 2. giving her a better option that what she asked for.)

Sean and I explained where it was and continued on into the store with a feeling of content at the success of helping someone who needed directions in this new town that we have recently found ourselves in.



xoxo