But first, breakfast:
Warm and delicious Pumpkin Baked Oatmeal.
On a whim, I made my boatmeal with coconut butter as the fat source. As it turns out, coconut butter pairs really well with pumpkin. Not that I expected any different; coconut butter pairs really well with everything!
And this single-serving recipe never fails me.
I also ate the last of my samples of Vegan Greek Yogurt.
Then, after breakfast, it was time to meet a friend… and move into our new place!!
That’s my big news. (See? I told you it was something that was a huge deal to me, but that y’all probably wouldn’t care about. Your guesses about me running away with my blind date were much more interesting!)
We spent Thursday, Friday, and some of Saturday moving furniture, unpacking boxes, and organizing everything. The actual process of moving is never any fun, and I’m definitely not a stranger to it.
As a child, my parents bounced me all over the world: London, Tokyo, Philadelphia, Manila, Shanghai, and Dallas. And the bouncing didn’t stop when I got out on my own, moving first to a dorm in freshman year of college. When I transferred to SMU, a friend and I found an apartment together. Junior year, I moved to a single apartment after my friend graduated, and it was an adorable little place. But I arrived home one day to find a note taped to the door that said: “Move out, because we are demolishing your apartment to make room for the George Bush Library.”
Ugh.
So I got another apartment, with a roommate. And then, tired of all the moving, I moved back in with my parents for senior year. Living at home was awesome. It was free, familiar, and I got to see the people (and puppies!) I most love in the world. However, it’s just too easy to pretend you’re still a kid when you live at home. I was ready to get out on my own again and be independent.
Question of the Day:
If you don’t live with your parents, when did you move away from home?
Or when do you think you will leave home? Although I’ve lived on my own before, this is the first time I’ll truly be independent; paying my own rent and bills.
P.S. Can someone quickly go “like” my Facebook page?
I’d be so grateful… I know it sounds ridiculous, but I’m superstitious and am scared of 6666s! 😕
Good for you on your new home!
I still live with my parents, and probably won’t move out for a while yet. I love my family so much!
I had oatmeal this morning, too, although it was not baked. I did add pumpkin pie spice,and a dollap of your “cream”. Heaven! A perfect Sunday morning breakfast, accompanied with a small dish of warmed pear slices and cinnamon
I moved away for college. That was when I was 20 years old.
Now, when I go back for holidays, it feels weird living with them again.
Even though I love my parents, it just doesnt feel the same.
(I enjoy the home cooked meals though very much! )
Congratulations on the new place! I hope you are able to get settled quickly. I know it always feel more like home once your things are out and pictures are up on the walls.
I lived with my parents the first two years in college and then I moved out my Junior year. I have had to move a lot due to different roommates and there were a few summers I was living in my parents house with boxes which was interesting 🙂 Since I just graduated and got my first job, I feel like my move in August was a bigger step then my other moves.
I moved out when I turned 18 for university. My mom got rid of my bed, haha. When i visit at home I have a mattress on the floor of my old room, now used for storage!
Oh well.
That breakfast looks divine!
I moved out in August 2010, a few months after I graduated from college. I still LOVE going home when I get the chance though. I’m such a homebody!
I moved out of home for various reasons at 16 years old. A bit young I know, but it was right for me and my mum at the time. I did have an ex bf who didnt move out of home until a week before he was 30 though.. I thought that was a bit much! and a massve hint about the type of character he was haha
Hi Katie, do you remember me? 🙂
I’m Italian and here in Italy you often find graduated and post graduated boys and girls living with parents. Ok, it’s beautiful to stay at home with mom and dad, I don’t recriminate this trend, but I don’t understand how some friend of mine don’t feel the need to move out of home… I’m 30 (yes…I’m old…) and I live for my own even if so near my parents. Love living alone and love coming my childhood home visiting mom and dad. Anyway I think there isn’t just one right choice and we have to make what we find really fit for us and for our life. So good luck, Katie! Can’t wait awesome recipes you’ll find out your new kitchen! Chocolate cheers!
Yes, I remember you!!
*Waves!* 🙂 🙂
I lived with my parents until my marriage. I still enjoy staying with them whenever I can. Independence is good, but what is life without loved ones around. I would rather live with my parents than some room-mate or friends. They have sacrificed so much to make me who I am.. and the least I can do is be around as they are getting older.
FYI. I am an Indian and children live with parents and tc of them in almost all Asian countries. I think the term “independence” is too blown up in the US.
I love my parents with all my heart and I’m grateful for their love and every single thing they did and still doing for me. I agree with you: the least a daughter/son can do is take care of them as they getting older and living so near (barely closed) “their” home ( “our” is better, since I still consider it as one of my home, because I grew up there and mom and dad live there) it’s perfect for me. I couldn’t live too far from them, I’d miss them too much. When I wrote I find strange some friend of mine don’t feel the need of living for their own, actually I didn’t mean the fact itself of living with parents, but their attitude in “sitting”, and living without planning the future and trying to build something in and for their life. I enlarged the matter but my English knowledge is at a basic level and it’s so difficult for me to explain clearly what I mean and I would say!
I agree… I don’t know why people look down upon kids who move back in with their parents after graduating college. Personally, I adore my parents and want to spend as much time with them while we have the chance. All too soon, parents get older and you don’t want to look back and wish you’d spent more time with them.
I never officially moved back in after I left for college. And about a month after graduating, I moved a few states away. Have to admit…always miss home.
We moved around a lot growing up too…and I have to say, I still crave a move every once in awhile. There’s something really refreshing about purging your stuff, and then creating a brand new space with new potential.
Yay for you! Exciting news..I moved out my freshman year of college, but lived with siblings until my senior year, then also moved back in with the fam…then finally, on my own for grad school, which was awesome!
Have so much fun!