What Home Means To Me

Having two different houses is really hard to deal with and it can be sad that I don’t get to see my parents at the same time, but luckily I have equal time with my parents. I have to keep on remembering that family is also home. When I am at my Mom’s house I feel very safe and it makes me feel very happy there. To me home must feel safe, happy, comfortable and be cared for and home must not feel unsafe, unhappy, uncomfortable and not being cared for. When I have my dogs here with me I feel safe because my dogs keep me guarded, protected, happy, comfortable and loved. This year my family is my Mom, Dad, Denise (my Mom’s best friend), Lilah (me and my sister's best friend), me (Kathryn),Theia (my sister) Storm and Mishka (my dogs). Each house I have some friends like at my Mom’s my friends are Lilah and Layla, but my friends at my Dad’s are Hussain, Adriman, Dhiay, Eric and Chris. When I am at one of my houses I can talk about my emotions and how to see how to make it better. At my Mom’s house I can feel safer because she does not lie so I know that I can trust her while I can talk about my emotions to her and she will keep it only to her if I don’t want her to say anything about it. I can tell my Mom that there might be a monster under my bed when I know there isn’t one but she will go and check under my bed to see if there is a monster under my bed, but if I go and tell my Dad he might just say that there is no monster under my bed without checking under my bed. That makes me feel more safe because my Mom went to check under my bed to make sure I was going to be ok but when dad would say that there was no monster under my bed without checking it makes me feel not safe because he did not check under my bed to see if I would be fine. Home can also feel like we help each other and keep the house safe. Home can also feel more safe and protected by looking after each other when we are sick or in pain, so what we do when someone is sick or in pain is we give them cuddles, medicine, water and keep them warm when they are cold. My parents make sure that I have what I need to live and stay healthy but that does not mean I get what I want.