Just to See You Again

I've been thinking about you a lot lately. Wondering how you are doing, what you're up to. I should know by now that my thoughts are, more often than not, premonitions of things to come. So it shouldn't have surprised me when I saw your brother in our new congregation.

I haven't seen you in far too long - over two years ago at my wedding. That's not like us. We're used to being in each others' lives even when we live in different countries. You were my best friend, besides Aphrodite. You were my back-up date and I was yours. You always seemed to know when I was missing you and needed to hear from you. You would invite me to a concert, or I would sneak down to see you in the middle of a work-week. I sent you packages when you lived in Brazil and even with their unreliable mail system we still stayed in touch.

Then it was my turn to leave. You tried to talk me into staying. I thought maybe you thought I would mess up. You just wanted to further our relationship. And there was a time I had wanted that to. We never seemed to want it at the same time. They all tried to talk me into kissing you. You even egged me on but I knew our friendship was more important than anything that could come of me kissing you.

And it was for the best. You were engaged when I returned. We're both married to different people and that's how it should be. I don't regret that. I just regret that we haven't stayed in touch since then. I have a baby now. You don't know that. Maybe you have one too, I don't know. But I miss you. Maybe it's fate that I saw your brother. Maybe this means we really are supposed to be a part of each others' lives for the rest of our lives. I guess we'll see...

Beginning Anew

Well, we survived moving and cleaning our previous living space. It really wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. We enjoyed our stay with family. It was sort of like a vacation because we really didn't have to worry about much of anything - besides the days we had to work but even that wasn't too bad. They took care of pretty much everything for us and we quite enjoyed it. As payment I made dinner most nights and it was probably the best they had eaten for a long time. I'm that good:)

We're mostly moved into our new place thanks to my side of the family and Aphrodite and her husband. Now we just have to go through all the boxes. But I don't hate unpacking nearly as much as I hate packing. There seems to be more storage space than we previously thought which is a very good thing. And we just can't get over how big our new place is. It's wonderful! This year is definitely getting off to a good start.

And a Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had happy holidays. Ours were good, but very, very busy. Hubby and I both had relatives in town and everyone wanted to see the baby so there was a lot of gas wasted as we commuted from one end of the valley to the other, multiple times, in one day, for several days. Fun times were had by all. But seriously, our Christmas was nice. The baby made out like a bandit which was fine with us because that meant we didn't have to buy him anything! It's a good thing he's too young to know he's spoiled.

As soon as Christmas was over we got to the packing and moving part of our holiday. Because Chrsitmas just isn't Christmas for us unless it involves moving all our earthly possessions. This year is doubley nice because we get to do it twice! As I'm typing this all of our stuff is in the basement of my parents' house and we're staying with my sister-in-law until we can move into our new apartment at the end of the week. It hasn't been too bad though. For all the stuff we own it didn't take too long to move everything out of our old place. The worst part was cleaning the old apartment before returning the keys. Sick! I can't believe we lived in that filth! Ok, it wasn't quite that bad. But pretty close. And staying with Chuchel's family has been quite fun. It's nice for all of us to have extra adults around to watch small children while we just run to the store for eggs. You have no idea how inconvenient that small errand is once you have a baby. We'll be sad to move out because it's been a lot of fun, but also excited to have our privacy back.

We rang in the new year while nursing colds. Because seriously, what Christmas/New Year holiday is complete for me without a cold? I can't think of a single one. At least we finally had time to relax, which was nice. I've never been much for setting goals - new year or no - but this year I've decided I need to set some. I look back at 2006 and realize I haven't really progressed very much. Yeah, I have a new baby, and I've handled that a lot better than I ever imagined I would, but that's about it. I'm not growing emotionally or spiritually like I want to and while I'm growing physically I'd rather not so I'm going to be working on that too. I admire a lot of the goals Holly has shared on her blog so if she doesn't mind I may be borrowing a few of those. It's funny how generally we all have the same kind of goals for ourselves, no matter where we are in life.