LolliesLand: My Most Favourite Place In The World

I think I may have just had what can only be described as my first hormonal meltdown...as in a proper sob in the bath like!!
Due to circumstances changing ie. life moving on at a much faster pace than I have ever liked, I shall be leaving home soon, well within the next 2 months anyway if all goes to plan. Its safe to say that I am somewhat traumatised by this and its probably going to be one of the hardest things I've ever had to do so far (and that includes being harder than mending a broken heart or a fractured spine after a car crash!).
I blame the parents for this one though. They've made living at home one of the most enjoyable, memorable, sometimes unbearable, cushiest, cosiest places in the world for me to be in...ever! No matter where I've gone or for how long I've been gone, home is and always will be my most favourite place on earth. I've spent the best part of 20 years in this family home of ours, I've done all my growing up here, met my best friend from down the road because I've lived here, I've experienced an awesome life in the countryside because of where my parents chose to make a home for us..and its been the best home ever. Its my safe haven, particularly my room. Oh if those 4 walls could talk, they'd fill you in on all the teenage angst, tears, smiles and laughter as well as the adult versions of all of that! Its the one place in the world thats mine and mine only, I feel comforted and safe in there, and know that whenever Im in there, everything is going to be ok. (That may also have something to do with the Mothership being not too far behind me with hugs, sympathy, advice and cups of tea for whenever any of it was needed!) And as much as we all may have had our down's in our home, like any family, the up's will always, always outweigh them.
Sometimes I think it would be much easier to move out if maybe I had gone sooner, (my sister moved out at 17 and has never come back really!) or I didn't get on with the parents so well or if I actually wanted to move out! I've always had this Peter Pan type desire, I never wanted to grow up, I remember saying this since was a young kid!
However the time has come and at almost 27 years old, this should be a natural progression and it is. This time its different though, I wont be leaving to move for a job and live in some grotty staff accommodation 6 days of the week or to take off on my travels, I'll be leaving properly. To move to a new house where I can make it my own home to raise my own family in (the combination of the 2 things happening at around the same time is slightly over whelming but hey, I was never one to do things by half!!). And I know its all going to be fine, Im moving a few miles away, probably no more than 4 miles (I'll still be an emotional wreck...even if it was next door!) and Im sure I'll be home so often, it'll be like I never left, well for the parents anyway!
As this exciting and important new chapter in my life begins, my only hope is that I can provide as happy a home for my offspring as I was lucky enough to get from my folks and to teach them all of the valuable lessons in life that I was taught that set me out into the world on the right foot. :-)