Rouses Magazine - Home Sweet Home

Unfortunately, we have a lot of practice with disasters here on the Gulf Coast. If one doesn’t come this year, it will likely come the next. But there is never a thought of living somewhere else. This is home. This is where we belong.

For most of us, the holidays will look a little different this year. Maybe it’s your first time being away from home because of Hurricane Laura, Sally or Delta. Maybe it’s your first time seeing your cousins, siblings, grandparents or grandbabies since March. Maybe the whole family can’t be together, except on Zoom.

But in spite of that, some of us will still be cooking. Some of us will be delivering food to loved ones. And some old traditions may be put in dry dock for a season, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be new ones to take their place — or that we won’t revive the old ones when it’s safe to do so.

But the holidays are still the holidays. Even if the whole family can’t be together, even if you’re not in your house because of a hurricane, home’s still home.

However you celebrate this year, thank you for letting us be a part of it.

- Donny Rouse, CEO, 3rd Generation