The Stacy Family: Home Sweet Home

June 28, 2012

Home Sweet Home

Anyone who knows me well, knows that my hometown of Dyersburg, TN is one of my favorite places in all the world. There is something comforting and wonderful about spending your entire childhood in a small, Tennessee town. This little town is wedged so deeply into my heart and soul that the prospect of coming home for a weekend visit leaves me giddy with excitement!!

I am fortunate to have spent my entire childhood living in the same place and going to school (Kindergarten through 12th Grade) and church with the same people. It's these people and this town that have helped mold me into me. Dyersburg was a fabulous place to be a kid, a teenager and a young adult. It's because of Dyersburg that I have the fabulous group of friends that I have today. These girls are without a doubt some of the most important people in my life. It's sort of like the David Nail song "Turning Home" says: "And I don't know no friends, like the old friends, I never seem to laugh now, like I did with them, but deep inside me, a piece of my history, Yeah I hear their voices even though their gone and it keeps me turning home." Technically, they're only "gone" because we're scattered all across the South but we still hear each others' voices and see each others' faces a good bit! Thankful for that!

Dyersburg, for me, means many things but namely these: my old, blue, house with the pool on Stoneville, my amazing parents, my "new" house on Valley, my "little" 20-year-old sister still being a five year old, being a DMS Red Raider, Spuds and Biscuit, a Trojan cheerleading letter jacket, muddin' with our guy friends down by the MS river, Vacation Bible School at FBC, the Kroger parking lot, lifelong best friends, a first love, high school homecomings, Los Portales, rolling yards (oh, my dad would be so mad if he knew I did this!), church league basketball games, a fabulous education and awesome teachers, Dairy Queen little cheeseburgers, "working" at the store, Country Club pool summers and marrying the love of my life.

My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Connie Wright, has an amazing talent as a photographer. Below are some scenic Dyersburg pictures that I borrowed from her facebook page...hope you don't mind Mrs. Connie!