When you move often (or REALLY often, if you are us), it can be a little confusing for kiddos.  My minis don't have much of a concept of time or distance.  Really, I don't have much of a concept of it, either.  In an attempt to a) fill some blank space on our stair platform and b) try to demonstrate difference between a country/state/city and show highways, we put together this little display last week:

This incredibly blurry image reads "Home is where the <3 is... (and where the Air Force sends us!)"

We put star on places we've been stationed on the map, dots where aunties and uncles live and a big ol' heart on Colorado because it's clearly better than all the other states.  Well, and because it's our "home" despite where we move.  It's home because we love the Rocky Mountains.  It's home because we grew up here.  It's home because we own a condo here.  It's home because our families are here.

The minis dig the map and photos (note the photos are put up out of tiny fingerprint reach).  They like to point out where they were born and ask where states are.  I dig it because I get compliments on it and my ego likes to be stroked.

How do you define "home?"