This last weekend was the most fun I have had in a really long
time. Don’t get me wrong moving here has been fun with new adventures happening every
week but what could be better you ask? A visit from my best friend back home
and her daughter is the answer! I have missed my bestie so much and I didn’t realize how much
until she was actually here. When you have had someone in your life for 32
years and all of sudden you are hundreds of miles apart instead of three miles
apart it’s more than hard.
Her daughter had never been to California so in a few days they were here we managed to drag her everywhere from Malibu to Walk of Stars on Hollywood Boulevard. I know her fifteen your old eyes could barley soak in everything she was seeing so that just means she has to come back again to visit.
We laughed, we climbed trees like when we were kids, we
played in the ocean, and we ate a ridiculous amount of food with some wine.
There is no way to express how having my best friend here warmed my heart.
I have to share this last part even though it’s a little sad
but my daughter is just something else. After we dropped them off at the
airport I started to ugly cry.( I mean really let it all out.)I think it’s
because when I left Colorado I never cried about anything. I was busy, I was on
a mission to get us out to California, and I was crazy exhausted. However, this time I
realized how sad I am without them as much as I love living here I was truly
sad. My daughter observing this from the back seat says,” Mommy are you sad?”
To which my husband rambles in nervous response, “She is happy they visited but
sometimes people can cry when happy too!” I just look at him because I swear he
confuses her more than anything with his "Daddy talks." She says,” No I want to hear from mommy.
Use your words and tell me what’s wrong!” I smile and look at her,” Mommy had a
lot of fun with Auntie Dini and Sydney and I just wished they could of stayed
longer. I will miss them. That is all.” She seemed satisfied with that answered
and the next time I turned around she was sound asleep. This weekend of company seemed to wear her out too!
Love that last photo -- what a sweetie she is, and oh so smart! Moving is hard. Change is hard. I'm still working on getting my best friend (whom I had to leave behind when we moved from N. Cal back to So Cal thirty years ago...) to join us here in So. Cal. Hope springs eternal! She actually just left from a visit this morning... She comes here for a beach visit at least a couple times each year, and I go up there a few times each year as well. Thirty years later, our friendship is as strong as ever. It's nice that you live somewhere both Dini and her daughter will love coming to visit... what could be better than coming to So Cal beaches AND seeing YOU!!! sounds like you had a wonderful time together here; the first of many, I'm quite sure. :)
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