On days like today I miss our little house in Rolla, MO. I wish I would've taken more pictures of it considering it was the first place my husband and I ever lived together. I miss living in a small town that has just two small fabric stores, a handful of restaurants and real, local businesses. I miss that we could walk "downtown" and it only took about 10 minutes to cover the area. I miss the little used book shops and the fact you could practically walk anywhere you wanted. I miss O'Doggy's - our favorite little (now) food truck (then it was just a tent) where we would get hot dogs once a week only 3 blocks from our house. I miss the little Salvation Army where I scored some lovely real leather boots and a great sweater. I miss the long trail that ran behind our house that we never made it to the end to...and the day people were selling apples right off the trail. I miss the tiny health food store and getting 25 cent drinks at the gas station when the Cardinals scored home runs. I miss having more time to craft, knit, sew, cook and bake. I miss having a backyard where we could play bean bag toss and bocce ball and you could actually have a fire pit (or a grill)! I miss our family and friends being only 150 miles away (an hour and half).
Of course there are things I don't miss - like waking up at 4am for my job at Kroger (although I could've found a different job) and having to purchase almost everything at Walmart (the only large store in town) but those seem so minor now...
Obviously there are benefits to living here - it's absolutely beautiful. That's me and Kristen in the mountains when she was here a couple of weeks ago :] Anywho, time to get ready for work!
