Holiday Homelessness

Steve and I are Cleveland transplants.  Neither one of us grew up here.  We don't have any family in the area.  We mostly just fell into Cleveland living.  We've been living on the East Side of Cleveland for three years now and it's great -  most of the time.  For the first couple of years not only did we not have family in the area but we hadn't really made friends yet, we weren't attending or plugged into a church, and we pretty much just kicked it in our little world of two.  

Like I said, we didn't much mind - most of the time.  Weekdays were filled with working, weekends we filled with random enjoyments, but Holidays, well Holidays were a different story.  It's kind of boring and a bit depressing to always hear about other peoples fun-family-filled Holiday plans and then go sit in your apartment.  Enter amazingly fantastic friends.  This, our third year in Cleveland, has been significantly better than the first two, Holiday-wise. 

Let me just say that our first two Christmases in Cleveland kind of bit it.  This year was fantastic.  Our lovely friends Carl and Sondra had a bit of a party on Christmas day.  And by party I mean Carl and Sondra, Chris and Nicole, and me and Steve.  It was truly amazing to wake up on Christmas morning knowing that we had something to do and would be spending time with amazing friends.  We had an absolute blast eating great food and playing BuzzWord (Amazing game, just FYI).

This most recent Holiday (The Fourth of July, just in case you live under a rock and don't know what day/month it is) definitely took the cake for Best Cleveland Holiday.  A few other lovely friends adopted us for the day and let us totally crash an amazing family day.  Can you say swimming, tasty food, hilarious company, jokester kids, and fireworks?  Because we can, and we totally did.  We definitely had a blast rockin' out some Fourth of July partying.  Seriously amazing.

Thank you to all of our amazing Cleveland Friends who are quickly becoming more like family.  These two way-ward residents truly appreciate being given a home for the holidays.

In case anyone wants to adopt us for the next Holiday - 

keep in mind that we can contribute great food and/or BuzzWord.