We are lucky to have a handful of friends with whom conversation
and fellowship fall right into step when we’re together, no matter how long we’ve
been apart. Our friend David is one of those people for us. He has just
returned from a long stint in Italy with the military. While away, he tricked a
great girl into marrying him (ha), and had the most beautiful daughter ever. He’s
been able to visit a couple of times since leaving, but this time, he’s coming “home”
(Texas counts, even if it’s a different city)
for at least a few years and he brought his beautiful family with him. We went
to lunch, and it took about, oh, 30 seconds, for me to fall in love with
Summer, his daughter. We’re best friends now. J
We spent the evening hanging out with
David’s family, eating burgers and watching YouTube Disney music clips with
Summer. Reunited and it feels so good.
Highlights:
1) I cleaned out my refrigerator. Like removed every item, scrubbed the shelves
and drawers kind of clean. Yikes! No good, folks. It was embarrassingly apparent
that we’ve got a food wasting problem. I’m not OK with this! Resolving not to
ever let it get this way again.
2) Summer calls her father “Dave” instead of Daddy. He doesn’t
care much for this, but I told him frankly that I won’t be discouraging this,
but in fact will continue to refer to her dad as “Dave” so she’ll keep it up.
Hey, she’s 18 months, it’s cute. And hopefully, when she’s 16 and still calling
him that, he’ll forget I was ever involved.
3) Giorgia, David’s lovely Italian wife, is like a new person
from the first time we met. She didn’t speak English all that well, but now
that she does, she fit in with our group just as if she’d been there all along.
She’s a gem, and I’m glad he’s got her!
Love & Long Lost Friends,
K
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