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coolerifyoudid said:
My random question for the morning: When you say "home", are you referring to your current residence, where your parents are, where you grew up, some place that is special to you, all of the above? At what point did your definition change?

I was remembering a convo with my wife a few years back. We were heading back to my hometown for a funeral and I had one of those moments when I crested a hill, saw the open farmland and just let my worries go. I casually muttered 'It's nice coming home". Well, my wife went off on me about how she considers home to be where we (her,me, little Cooler) live.

It seemed like a really trivial argument at the time, but I've never forgotten that moment. My wife moved around a lot and put a lot more value in the idea of "home". I guess I never placed that great of a significance on the word since my parents have been in the same town my entire life. Heck, I rarely go back there since my parents are retired and make several trips to KC a year.

Anyhoo, just curious to some other opinions.
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Mine is pretty complicated as my parents live near Chicago, I live in Ames, but my grandparents still live where I went to high school. When I go "home" on the weekends I go to my grandparents, so I refer to where I grew up as "home".

Chicago isn't my home because I never lived there and although I live in Ames it isn't my home, because my family isn't here.
 
jcyclonee said:
It is kind of goofy. However, it does give the kids that are willing to take the more difficult classes a small reward. No system is totally fair unless everybody takes the exact same classes. Anyway, whether the GPA is 4.01 or 3.81, it's still a pretty good accomplishment for that size of team.
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It definitely is.

My high school did the same thing but still only had 1 valedictorian and one salutatorian. Rabbuk can shed more light on the two CR schools that due at as between X GPA and Y GPA is salutatorian and Y GPA + is valedictorian.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
My random question for the morning: When you say "home", are you referring to your current residence, where your parents are, where you grew up, some place that is special to you, all of the above? At what point did your definition change?

I was remembering a convo with my wife a few years back. We were heading back to my hometown for a funeral and I had one of those moments when I crested a hill, saw the open farmland and just let my worries go. I casually muttered 'It's nice coming home". Well, my wife went off on me about how she considers home to be where we (her,me, little Cooler) live.

It seemed like a really trivial argument at the time, but I've never forgotten that moment. My wife moved around a lot and put a lot more value in the idea of "home". I guess I never placed that great of a significance on the word since my parents have been in the same town my entire life. Heck, I rarely go back there since my parents are retired and make several trips to KC a year.

Anyhoo, just curious to some other opinions.
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Your comment "It's nice coming home" sounds like something that I could have said and your wife's reply sounds very much like something my wife could say.

I'd say that I probably changed my personal definition of what I considered to be home when we built our first house. I wouldn't have considered the pre-marriage apartment or immediately post-marriage townhouse as home.

I think my wife's definition of home might be defined as the area that we live in. Since we've been married, we've never lived more than a few miles from house she grew up in.

Anymore, when I go back to Iowa I say that we are going to see my parents or my family or just going to Iowa.
 
Not really sure what "home" is to me anymore. Home hasn't been Iowa for decades. Probably think of the Twin Cities as home more than Golden Valley or my house. As much as I like my house (and I REALLY like my house) it's just a house these days without CWW#2, the basenjis and my old neighbors.
 
coolerifyoudid said:
My random question for the morning: When you say "home", are you referring to your current residence, where your parents are, where you grew up, some place that is special to you, all of the above? At what point did your definition change?

I was remembering a convo with my wife a few years back. We were heading back to my hometown for a funeral and I had one of those moments when I crested a hill, saw the open farmland and just let my worries go. I casually muttered 'It's nice coming home". Well, my wife went off on me about how she considers home to be where we (her,me, little Cooler) live.

It seemed like a really trivial argument at the time, but I've never forgotten that moment. My wife moved around a lot and put a lot more value in the idea of "home". I guess I never placed that great of a significance on the word since my parents have been in the same town my entire life. Heck, I rarely go back there since my parents are retired and make several trips to KC a year.

Anyhoo, just curious to some other opinions.
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I use home for both, and then people can tell based on context, but I feel like Des Moines is more my home than Madison
 
I don't really consider where I grew up home anymore, it just doesn't feel the same when I do go back. I'm not quite ready to name Omaha as home either. I guess in the future I'd say it's wherever I put down real roots by buying a home and living with/getting married to my SO.
 
BoxsterCy said:
Not really sure what "home" is to me anymore. Home hasn't been Iowa for decades. Probably think of the Twin Cities as home more than Golden Valley or my house. As much as I like my house (and I REALLY like my house) it's just a house these days without CWW#2, the basenjis and my old neighbors.
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You could always work on CWW #3 to make it more homey.

Pantsy next time you are back you need to be his wing man.
 
I AM not sharing my HS or ISU gpa. Nope, not going there. My sister was HS valedictorian though. That was back when a 4.00 was a 4.00 was a 4.00 and you couldn't get anything higher.
 
jcyclonee said:
We had the high school girls tennis team banquet last night. What a neat group of girls. The coach had to chide the team for letting their cumulative grade point slip from 4.02 last year to 4.01 this year. Not bad when you consider that there are 62 girls on the team. I know I shouldn't brag about my kids but I'm pretty proud of this. Three years ago it seems like she could barely walk without tripping over her own feet. Now she has a very real chance of playing varsity as a Sophomore on a pretty good tennis team. #sorry,prouddad
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Never be sorry to be proud of your kids. Constant bragging is a drag - this does not constitute constant bragging, IMO.

4.01 cumulative with 60+ girls is amazing. :)
 
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