Saturday, April 9, 2011

Checking off boxes with little red X’s

There are 66 days until we go back home to Amarillo for a visit.  Notice I said “home”— it will always be my home.  We are counting down the days on the calendar.

This morning I found myself making a mental list of all the things I was looking forward to.  Here it is:

 

  • Cherry Limeades from Hud’s (no such thing as a Cherry Limeade in ND)
  • Wild Cherry snow cones (again, no real snow cones here either)
  • Sonic Ice –- the best ice cubes ever (and it does make a difference)
  • Chicken fried rice from My Thai – my favorite restaurant ever.  I ate there 3 times a week, every week when I was pregnant with Cayden.  Funny, it’s his favorite too.
  • Blue Bell Pecan Praline and Cream Ice cream
  • Watching the boys ride the roller coasters at Wonderland Amusement Park – they have such a great time, you can’t help but have fun too
  • Chicken fried steak – from somewhere, anywhere would be better than ND.  ND puts brown gravy all over theirs!
  • Riding around in the car with my BFF Tina, acting like teenage girls, catching up on the latest, pretending we see each other every week instead of once or twice a year
  • Worshipping at “my” church, Trinity Fellowship – I miss it so much.  There is nothing like it and I will always consider it my home church even if I have to listen to podcasts of Pastor Jimmy instead of watch him in person

 

  • AND THE NUMBER ONE THING I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO, OF COURSE, IS GETTING TO SPEND 3 GLORIOUS WEEKS WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY

 

 

Laura