Ghana Rhymes with Ban-ah-na

My whole break has been spent with my family and fiance. I can say that it has been quite satisfying. Most of the time we’ve been sitting in our living room playing games, and talking around the fire, but I can honestly say that I am missing my friends severely…especially since Ky and Shannon just returned from Australia. I literally want to cry about how much I missed them.

Though I feel that these close friends of mine are forever friends, I have just come to realization that I have really taken my parents for granted. Of course, during your teenage and college years, you would rather be with your friends. It has just really hit me that my parent’s are lifelong friends. They are my ultimate support and leaving them over my longest break of the year would just be silly.

My dad got a new four-wheeler from Christmas. Quite an extravagant gift that he would have bought himself if he hadn’t done better things with his savings, but it was really exciting. Yesterday, we spent quite a bit of time removing an area of brush and thorns from the side of my parent’s house. A tree, a full tree, grew from all of these thorns! Anyway, after all of that we went on four wheeler ride and I telling my dad that I missed doing stuff with my friends, and he said, “you know, your friends will move away someday…your won’t always been close to them.”  And it sort of hit me.  I’m getting married.  I’m probably going to be relocating somewhere different from all of my friends if they don’t first.

We only have so much time with friends and family and I do not want to take anyone for granted.

My daddy is going to Ghana this afternoon and I’m going to miss him so much.  If anyone reads this, please be praying for safety for his team.

~ by monicafox on January 9, 2008.