Home Sweet "Dupont"  

(This week, all my posts are going to deal with something that's very near and dear to me: home-- in all the ways these locations and emotions manifest themselves in my life.)


Exactly six years, ten months, and 19 days ago, DH and I met here:


Home sweet "Dupont". My humble abode for the four most formative years of my life. This is the place where I truly came into my own as an an individual, and later, where I discovered who I could be as part of a healthy, happy relationship. As a Blue Devil, I made friends, made mistakes, faced challenges, faced excitement, learned lessons, learned my heart. In the years since graduation (which number far more than I can believe), I've moved about half a dozen times. But really, my heart has never moved past "Dupont".

That's why I was so thrilled to "introduce" my alma mater to G during Homecoming weekend. We had a big weekend planned. First, we toured "Dupont"'s Primate Center, home to the largest lemur populartion in captivity anywhere in the world. G got an up close look at these prosimians (oooooh, did Mommy learn a new word?), then got to take one home with her... "Lenny".




Then, we cheered on our alma mater at the Homecoming football game (which we won handily-- a real hallmark at "Dupont"!). G sported her new cheerleading uniform, and tried to make a good impression as a soon-to-be member of the graduating class of 2031.


But the most anticipated moment of our weekend came when DH, G, & I visited the location where "we" began: the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity section, where DH & I met at a party on a November night almost seven years ago. I still remember what I was wearing that evening, what DH was wearing that evening, the first words I spoke to him ("You play football? What position? Offensive line, huh? Just like Orlando Pace!"-- he was hooked). In the years since DH & I graduated and moved away from "Dupont", I often found myself longing to go back to my college days. For the carefree lifestyle of waking up at noon and never changing out of my pajamas until putting on my party clothes that night. For days where my sole purpose of being was to simply soak up all the knowledge I could from this esteemed place. So, I was eager to see if that precise location would still hold the magic it did for us so long ago.



It did. But this time, it was even more magical, because the love that we formed here... that had its roots here... had grown to include our daughter.