tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post7524612378375337575..comments2024-01-02T13:03:28.273-07:00Comments on Cookie's Chronicles: Guest Blogger:Theresa of A Mountain Momma"Come from away Momma..."Cookie’s Momhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539520794775363132noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-39041856195924478962011-08-08T08:02:37.587-06:002011-08-08T08:02:37.587-06:00What a beautifully written story. I've never ...What a beautifully written story. I've never heard anyone talke about where they grew up quite like this. I was so intrigued. And sadness as your favorite emotion was also interesting to me. I think you're just all around interesting. :)Grumpy Grateful Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18280877945184331361noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-63251380869147739222011-08-05T13:13:35.499-06:002011-08-05T13:13:35.499-06:00Wonderful feature!! I actually just discovered The...Wonderful feature!! I actually just discovered Theresa today...by accident...and then I came here and she was featured!! Very cool :)Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17940118384108153753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-3871637982886193312011-08-05T12:21:18.685-06:002011-08-05T12:21:18.685-06:00"I am a writer and I try to live it everyday...."I am a writer and I try to live it everyday."<br /><br />What a wonderful quote! Witching hour is one of my favorites too! Always dreamed of traveling like that!!! So amazing!!!<br /><br />JudesterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-49745854465436142942011-08-05T05:43:28.059-06:002011-08-05T05:43:28.059-06:00@Kim thanks honey.
Totally, it's funny how th...@Kim thanks honey. <br />Totally, it's funny how the house I grew up in looks so much smaller!Theresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09167651635926150788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-2493936474417202202011-08-05T05:41:57.989-06:002011-08-05T05:41:57.989-06:00@Poker Chick Ha, that is easy!! Problem solved... ...@Poker Chick Ha, that is easy!! Problem solved... ;c)Theresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09167651635926150788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-28870673495611765612011-08-04T23:59:24.402-06:002011-08-04T23:59:24.402-06:00Great post Theresa! So beautifully written. Someti...Great post Theresa! So beautifully written. Sometimes our idea of home changes as we grow.Kimberlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13034271381748240025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-61215702427804853292011-08-04T20:56:36.511-06:002011-08-04T20:56:36.511-06:00Easy - you are from Canada! Simple as that :)Easy - you are from Canada! Simple as that :)Poker Chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09088990134083482565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-46546574988230658912011-08-04T19:46:15.410-06:002011-08-04T19:46:15.410-06:00Oh, I love that line. So perfect.
Thank you so mu...Oh, I love that line. So perfect. <br />Thank you so much Rachel. That means more than you know.Theresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09167651635926150788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-63434830574476417132011-08-04T19:01:24.405-06:002011-08-04T19:01:24.405-06:00Theresa--this has got to me my favorite post of yo...Theresa--this has got to me my favorite post of yours yet. Truly magical, poignant, and adventurous. It's not that you don't love home--it's just that sometimes we don't fit anymore. There's a song I love called Painting Pictures of Egypt and a line that has struck a chord with me goes <br />"But the places that used to fit me<br />Cannot hold the things I"ve learned" I often think of this line when I wonder if I can go home again.Rach (DonutsMama)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14029074046922966097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-45415062196643322672011-08-04T17:47:37.039-06:002011-08-04T17:47:37.039-06:00@Sue Nostalgia is a good way to put it. I miss it,...@Sue Nostalgia is a good way to put it. I miss it, I dream about it, but when I'm here I never stop moving long enough to stop treading water.<br />Thanks so much for your kind words and having me guest post. It's been a pleasures.<br /><br />@Alison I know what you mean. Once you start moving, you find new was to feel at home. Portable ways usually.<br /><br />@Bruna Thank you! It is my home in some ways... I have my accent back, so that must mean something.<br /><br />@Stasha You are so awesome anywhere would be lucky to have you and call you one of them. I hope you are looking into booking your boat trip to Vancouver. Mini BlogHer is on!!!<br /><br />@Jacqui Oh stop you. Thanks for saying so, you can repeat yourself all you want <br /><br />@Barbara Everyone does that. PEI is just a big LM Montgomery/Anne Shrine!!Theresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09167651635926150788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-48620248841257979222011-08-04T12:20:00.083-06:002011-08-04T12:20:00.083-06:00Beautiful post, I feel the same way about my homet...Beautiful post, I feel the same way about my hometown. I left when I was 17 and have never been back, so it's not really 'home'! As soon as you said PEI, I immediately thought of Anne of Green Gables, is that bad?Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13311088408907148236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-74095907069147804252011-08-04T11:57:44.078-06:002011-08-04T11:57:44.078-06:00You are such a crazy talented writer, Cupcake. I m...You are such a crazy talented writer, Cupcake. I might have told you that already...so I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself. Truly beautiful!jacquihttp://chicktuition.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-59704638620731343992011-08-04T11:35:15.335-06:002011-08-04T11:35:15.335-06:00You two in the same place is magical. I love both ...You two in the same place is magical. I love both your blogs.<br />I love the West coast. It is my home now. But because I sound foreign I get asked every day where I am from. And I feel shy saying PNW because I am after all a newcomer and an accidental American and I must point out where I was born and why I sound English.<br />Home is where you make it. I have lived abroad most of my life. Everytime I see pictures or videos from home I cry. Guess wherever you are born is where you will belong. <br />But when we leave here I know PNW is always going to be somewhere I will settle. To me that means I can say I am from the West coast after all.<br />Specially if you two are my fellow weasties. We even understand Theresa ditching us :)Stashahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17836396076018306616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-4742267811730311892011-08-04T10:12:29.964-06:002011-08-04T10:12:29.964-06:00Theresa, I loved this post and I love that you too...Theresa, I loved this post and I love that you took your kids back HOME to where you grew up so that they could see where you lived and played. It's important. No matter what people say, you grew up in PEI and I think regardless of where your Mother gave birth to you, PEI was your home.<br /><br />A well written guest post!Bees With Honeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17582469374291294113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-10682760233016445552011-08-04T08:51:17.161-06:002011-08-04T08:51:17.161-06:00Lovely post Theresa. I know the feeling of rootles...Lovely post Theresa. I know the feeling of rootlessness. I've lived abroad for a few years and although back in Malaysia for 12 years, I still don't feel like I belong here. I feel like I should be living out the rest of my years somewhere else. Somewhere with lakes, mountains, wide expanses of land - not this concrete jungle I'm surrounded by. Sigh. Some day, I hope I go home.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13174981423633745590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-89847817380133418212011-08-04T08:47:51.066-06:002011-08-04T08:47:51.066-06:00It's interesting too that what you think of as...It's interesting too that what you think of as home, "mountains and glaciers and trees tall enough to touch the sky," while very beautiful to me does not give me a sense of feeling at home. I still feel like I'm a visitor here. Whenever I visit the place that I am from, a city of tall skycrapers in a densely populated downtown core and water (of the Great Lakes variety), I feel very much at home and, in a way, at peace. It's so interesting to me how deeply we feel these things - our memories from childhood at a cellular level - and how difficult it is to create a similar feeling as adults.Cookie’s Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539520794775363132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-62044034671125903802011-08-04T08:35:02.907-06:002011-08-04T08:35:02.907-06:00Theresa, thanks for being my guest today! Reading ...Theresa, thanks for being my guest today! Reading your post was a little like taking a trip down memory lane. My mother, aunt, cousin and I camped through PEI when I was a teenager. I have fond memories of campfires and sing-a-longs on the beach, birds darting in and out of the red clay hills, and beautiful rolling picturesque landscapes. <br /><br />Like Deborah, I no longer have a home base now that my parents are deceased, so I often feel like I don't really belong anywhere. Yet at the same time I still feel nostalgia for my home town, and there's just something about being 'home' that feels right whenever I visit.Cookie’s Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539520794775363132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-68165287620349764622011-08-04T07:37:45.057-06:002011-08-04T07:37:45.057-06:00@Deb I feel the same, I loved your post as well.
I...@Deb I feel the same, I loved your post as well.<br />I struggle with these feelings everytime I come back here, it's nice to finally articulate them.<br /><br />@Julie You are so sweet, so glad you liked it!Theresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09167651635926150788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-67722735023674939512011-08-04T07:13:44.438-06:002011-08-04T07:13:44.438-06:00I honestly read every word of this twice. Your wri...I honestly read every word of this twice. Your writing here is breathtaking. I understand the feeling of being from away, and how strange it is to reconcile your chosen, adult home with your childhood one.<br /><br />Thoughtful beginning to my day, Theresa. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-66454580814707104252011-08-04T06:58:32.741-06:002011-08-04T06:58:32.741-06:00What a beautiful, reflective read! I have a sense ...What a beautiful, reflective read! I have a sense of wistfulness now for something I've never experienced but feel I have, if that makes sense. <br /><br />It aso hits on questions in my heart in the last few months. When my mom's house sold in March of this year, I wondered where my home is. I'd always had a home base in Eugene, Oregon, as long as her home was there. Now that it's not, I feel an unsettledness I didn't before. It's not a bad thing, exactly, but rather something I'm still trying to come to terms with. <br /><br />I love a good struggle through the form of a good question. ;)<br /><br />Obviously I love Los Angeles or I wouldn't have moved here a second time, but it will never be the place I Came From. Perhaps I've been putting too much stock in the question to begin with!<br /><br />Again, this was a beautiful entry. I feel thrilled to be in such excellent guest blogging company! More than just a little now, too, I want to hop on a plane and see these things with my own eyes, preferably right now.Debhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06036505968642985025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3670299088597355474.post-58830718109943580882011-08-04T06:34:37.441-06:002011-08-04T06:34:37.441-06:00Thanks so much for letting me take over your blog ...Thanks so much for letting me take over your blog for the day. I hope you are enjoying your vacation and soaking up the sun!Theresahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09167651635926150788noreply@blogger.com