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

3 comments:

Mark said...

That's a "tasty" list lol . . . may you enjoy them all, some more than once, and some you haven't thought of yet. There is something weirdly ironic about no snow cones in a state with an over-abundance of snow. And brown gravy on chicken-fried steak! ... that's wrong on so many levels.
- Dad -

Tina said...

It's 65 days now!! I was making my own list! I think we should try and squeeze a OKC trip....we could go for the day...the zoo or the water park - or BOTH! Wonderland, the pool at WT & ATC for the boys...maybe even Splash?!?! The 4th of July is Canyon...parade & fair on the square. Discovery Center, Chick-Fil-A, snow cones, Sonic, and on...and on...and on. Really this day seems half way over...so it is 64.5 days?!?!

Deonne said...

Sounds like you girls have a plan. Hope you have as much fun or more than you are anticipating.