Happy Sunday, to you! I hope yours has been slightly, if not drastically, more productive than mine was!
This week was chaos, coming back from Texas to working 3 12 hour days at the hospital was intense! I did manage to sneak in some lots of time to shop! Again, not as productive as I would have liked to be, but I did get all new sheets/bedding for our spare bed and our bed! I got new sheets from the JLO line at Kohls when I climbed in to bed, I instantly felt like I was at grandma's. I'm not sure why her amazingly soft sheets and comfy pillows always have such a strong memory for me, but they do! Great investment. The rooms look much better! We will be changing rooms later in the month and I can't wait to decorate and get things feeling fresh and new. I also went on a mission to find a new kitchen table with NO luck at all. First of all, kitchen tables cost WAY too much, like a ridiculously stupid price for something to hold food. Second, I'm super picky. If I am going to pay said price, I want to LOVE it. I haven't had much luck with that. I know I'll find something soon!
I also went to spend some time with my family on Saturday. I love going down there, I hadn't seen my dad in awhile because we kept missing each other on visits so it was so nice to see him. Something about my life feels more complete when he's home, even if I don't get to go see him. I also got to visit Cassie, Mom, Grandma, Erica, Molli, Markus and McKinlee. Markus has decided he'll come live with me ONLY if my toilet water is orange! TOO funny. He is hilarious and has never wanted to leave his mom, so that was huge progress. McKinlee is learning sounds of different things, I hope you enjoy this video as much as I do. I've watched it about 100 times since taking it. She is soooo stinking cute!!!
PJ has a friend, James, in town for a few days. He met him in basic training in 2006 and kept in touch for several years. Somewhere in the midst they lost contact. James found him through facebook and they got back in touch about a month ago...so he came to visit from South Carolina this Saturday and is staying through Wednesday! It's nice to meet someone who knew him during basic/tech school because no one else has that insight on him. It's a neat thing though, friendships like that. It makes me reflect on my own.
I'm always super sappy when it comes to my best girl friends Rachel and Candice. Rachel has been keeping me in line since we were 10 years old. We used to spend more time together than with our own families and were always getting caught passing notes or talking too much in classes. I am lucky enough to live closer to her work than her own house, so thankfully she has frequent sleepovers and I tell ya, they are just as interesting at now as they were 15 years ago. Candice I met my sophomore year when I was brand new to Franklin County High School and she was almost as miserable as I was to be there. Just kidding. But she did friend me and never left my side after. After school she went through the Air Force academy and then was moved to a base in Florida. She's currently in Afghanistan and although I rarely get to see her, I know she is always a text/email away and friendship like that is so rare these days. It really is tested and true :) Lucky girl, I am. Just for fun, here are two flash backs from my dear friends back in the day :)
I feel like I have an everlasting connection to my great friends from Okeana, and anyone with the last name HUFF. A family that never treated me as anything less than one of their own (sometimes better than they treated each other) and truly welcomed me as a forever member of their family. I adore every last one of them, and with April 18th coming up so quickly I am constantly reflecting on the beautiful life that was Tarrista Huff. Being a part of her world, even if it was cut entirely too short, was such a blessing for me. I know it's very cliche' to say "there isn't a day that goes by without me thinking of..." but there truly isn't. Everyday I am struck by something that triggers her amazing memory. Something I wish I had told her, something I knew she'd find funny, something that would trigger that UNDENIABLY stunning smile. I hope she is able to feel the love everyone has down here for her, still. I hope she is able to know that although we are all left empty, there is comfort in knowing there is so much of this world she doesn't have to suffer through anymore. I hope she is able to know that her legacy lives in her brothers and that she will forever be a part of all of us. It's been a hard year, but I am so proud of Ann, Trenton, Travis, and Tristan for pushing on and making a million memories she would be proud of. I learn more about strength and devotion every time I get a chance to catch up with one of them. Amazing family, I tell ya.
I'm not sure when this blog took such a serious tone, but that is life I suppose, those things creep up on ya!
Well AMC's are on, and Army Wives is coming up next, I could do an entire blog serious on Army Wives!! That wraps this one up, thanks for reading! Remember to click "follow" on the right hand side of the blog so you can comment and get the latest of my little work in progress!! :)
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