Lazy Sunday1: hot chocolate & Bette Davis movies...

...Cuz, Baby it´s Cold Outside!

Hot chocolate, curled up in a thick wool blanket, catching up on blogging, and watching old movies.
Right now it´s Bette Davis with Charles Boyer, in the 1940´s classic historical drama "All this and Heaven Too". The movie is based on real people and events, duc de Choiseul-Praslin in 1800´s France.

Living abroad, it´s even more easy to get swept away in the history, as there is so much history here. Like a continually re-worked, patched and re-patched quilt, all the lives are here, layer after layer. Trite, maybe, but true. And I find even the ordinary lives the most interesting. Or, stories, like this movie, about those women and families, like me, who´ve immigrated back and forth, and how their lives were lived:)


My own various lines of family included many immigrants, back and forth across the seas and oceans, changing lives, living and making history, homesteading new land, learning a new way of life. Just like I am now.


At times, I of course felt guilty moving from the states, as they´d worked so hard to get there from their land, but then I think, their purpose was to give choices to their future family. And my choice was in a way, though opposite theirs, exactly the same also. So, rather than be disappointed in me by making my choices to move abroad, they would also see themselves in me. Just another ordinary person, becoming an immigrant in a new land, learning a new life, dealing with hardships and joys of that new life in a strange, new land. Starting a new family in a new country, a land far away. Different, but good in new ways. A wonderful new, strange, difficult, sad, happy, joyful, exciting new start:)

It´s not been all hearts and flowers, smiles and sunshine here, but even with and in spite of the difficulties, I have no regrets. I really do love it here, and both places are now my homeland, my home:)

Knowing I´ve still got lots of hard work to make life here what I want it to be, still no regrets, and I do really love it here.