The Forsha Home

Last night as I laid sprawled on the living room floor next to my mom, near the couch overflowing with 3 adults and a dog with their limbs overlapping, surely bursting any semblance of a “personal bubble”, I started to think about our home. It’s amazing how different everyone’s home feels to them, and how indescribable a home can be.

For me, when I picture my home, there’s a few things that come to mind.

1. Warmth

   I know, the biggest cliche in the book, but it’s true. Our house is the gathering place of so many friends, families, doggies, neighbors, and sometimes strangers (okay, not really but sometimes). The rooms are swirling with the warmth of many bodies congregating in a small space, filling the air with laughter.

2. Lively

   Being that there are six of us in the Forsha clan, I can count on my hand the number of times the house has ever been fully quiet, which was usually because my mom had to sleep before a night shift in the ER, and I love it that way. As I am working from home at our kitchen table, my sister and parents are demoing the kitchen floor a couple feet away from me, while they are doing that, Tom is listening to music in the basement, and we have the speaker on playing 80’s hits. The kitchen is a runway for people zooming in and out of the house, with the front door’s hinges twisting open and closed on the regular.

3. Goofy

   The amount of times we’ve started dance parties using pots & pans as drums and wine bottles as mics is insane. Even yesterday, my mom and I grooved to Micheal Jackson on the new floor, while my Dad and Steph were assembling the pieces. When it’s not music, there’s always some movie or TV show captivating the attention of 6+ adults in the living room, echoed with my Dad’s commentary that always gets a laugh. But best of all is when we have game night, because boy oh boy are the Forsha’s (at least a couple of them) competitive. It’s not uncommon to hear screaming from one miss Jill Forsha as she triphumantly wins the game of Code Names.

My guess is that if you have ever stepped foot in our house, you understand the chaotic love that lives within it. The same kind of love that I hope to emulate in my home one day.

Thanks for reading, love you always.

xoxo - Katie