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ramblings on my last days in Missouri / Sep 5, 08:12 AM
AHHH!
There, did you understand that? Yeah, I doubt it. Everyone keeps asking me, “Are you excited? Are you scared?” Yes to all of the above. But I feel like “yes” isn’t doing a good job at explaining the crazyness of emotions right now. So I tried “AHHH!” but I don’t think that helped much either. Whatev.
Big family dinner tomorrow night. Big party with my youth group Thursday night. Breakfast with Becca and Carli Fridy morning. Get on the plane at 12:30. And Whitney is supposed to go into labor in second now. And I’m going to be in the hospital with her and her family. Even if it means making my family wait until midnight for our family dinner. They’ll just have to deal. Your best friend (of 12 years) only has her first child and makes you the godmother once in a lifetime, ya know? It’s a pretty big deal.
In other news —- Josiah gave me 100 bucks tonight for Mission Year. (He tried to hand it to me but I told him that I’d get him an envelope tomorrow.) Let me explain to you how cool this is. Josiah is 17. No, that’s a lie. He turned 18 a few weeks ago. Anyway, he’s a senior in high school. Ya know…a kid. And he gave me 100 bucks of his own hard earned money. Seriously, hard earned. Jo worked at Greengates Farm all summer. Sweatin’ bullets doin’ I don’t even know what…but manly, tough, make you sore at the end of the day, kind of work. And Jo’s one of 7 kids. Raising 7 kids is expensive. So it’s not like Jo’s been handed a lot of super nice things in life, ya know? So for him to do that for me was super, super cool. I’m still floating, ya know? :) :) :)
People are treating me like I’m dying. It’s the weirdest experience of my life. People want to have me over and cook for me. They want to buy me things (mark’s bought me two books now). It’s so weird. I mean, I’m certainly not complaining. It’s nice knowing you’re loved. But I’m glad all the doting will end soon. It’s really starting to freak me out.
Um….yeah, that’s all I got. The End!
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I didn’t have the baby :-( I tried really hard though!
And something I think you’ll get a kick out of, is remember when you were getting out my car today..you said, and I quote “So this is like, the last time I’m going to see you”..You totally just killed yourself there. You know, as in like…you said people were acting like you were dying..well yeah..suicide. You were acting dead :-D
I love you. This friday you’ll be in Camden. Not dead. Very alive and in a new environment, how awesome is that? Very awesome. And when I have this Baby..I’ll send you a trillion and a half pictures. I can FedEx you a diaper too, if you really want to get into it :-D
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