*sigh* It's hard having a dear friend that lives 1800 miles away. Shannon left this afternoon after a too quick 3-day visit. Here we are sporting our Twilightshirts that we wore to the movie. Yes, we are Twi-hard fans.
Shannon & I became friends when I lived in California. We were in a playgroup together, but it took a couple of years before our friendship developed. Basically we both learned that we loved to scrapbook and started to crop together. Our relationship blossomed from there. We also were the first two women in our playgroup to have our second children. She and I both have 4 children in the same order: a girl, two boys & a girl. They are all relatively the same ages, give or take a couple of months. As I mentioned before, we both enjoy scrapbooking. And lastly we are both Christ-followers. She is certainly what Anne of Green Gables would call a kindred spirit.
So even though we live so far apart we still stay connected, talking on the phone almost every day. While raising small children it's hard for us to get together much more than once a year, but we make the most of it when we do. Since she and I are such big fans of the book Twilight, we planned this year's visit around seeing the movie together.
After picking her up from the airport, we went to Chili's. That's a little tradition of ours. We both love their fajitas. And there Molten Lava Cake. Yummers! We saw the movie (which I mentioned below). Friday we did some shopping & Saturday we scrapbooked and got some hair bling. And today we went to church and she went home. I swear, I just blinked and the visit was over. Too little time to spend with such a dear friend.
An interesting God-incidence (I don't believe in coincidence), the message at church today was about being intentional about living in the moment and making memories with your family and friends that you can look back on. I thought it was neat that Shannon and I were doing just that right then.
I am so blessed to have found Shannon and I am so happy to have her in my life, even if she is 1800 miles away. I'll take what I can get! And I'm doubly blessed to have an awesome husband who took over cooking, cleaning and childcare while Shannon was visiting so I could have a more focused visit with my friend. It was a great weekend even if it was too short.
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