On the eve of my 35th birthday I am looking back at the last year and tonight seems pretty anticlimactic really. I don't know if I was expecting a tidal wave or tornado...but here it is and I am still here and couldn't be happier. My life feel pretty good. Dad and Marsha are happily married and have a great place to eventually retire. Bill and Carol are happily living retirement near John and Michele but wish us closer. Tim and Susan are in their own house with Anna and Ox and doing good. Adam and Tiff have their place with their kids and Amanda has Barry and Hayden and one on the way. John and Michele life quietly in Springfield enjoying their children. I love my family...I enjoy my friends...both near and far. I miss Kansas City for so many reasons and every-time we go home I try and show my kids a little more of where I grew up and where I am from....My hometown. I have to admit pulling into our driveway it feels good to be in Bloomington...I LOVE it here. I love the people. I love our church. I love our friends. I love our "club." I love that everywhere I go I run into people I know and they embrace me like an old friend and that feels good. There is a deep part of me that never wants to leave. Still there is a deeper part of me that knows I belong closer to home...closer to my peeps...closer to the family that know my story.
Celebrating my birthday with my family last weekend was really like old times. I remember celebrating the hot summer nights at Grandma Sally's house till the wee hours of the night. It was so much fun and so worth the drive home and so worth the headache. I really miss my family, but mostly I am, really happy and glad this birthday is coming and going.
No tornado or tidal wave....
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