what have we become?

...so, tomorrow, i leave to pick up my son. sort of. 

NOTE: to any would-be robbers: the house will NOT be unoccupied. just so you know.

yes, i'm going to pick up my son. but also: my sister turns 25. one of my dearest friends is having a baby shower. i have deemed this weekend, "the weekend of things that i must do, but things that i want to do...nay, things that i can't wait to do." 

yes, that's a long title. but seriously. i'm going to get to celebrate my sister's birthday for the first time in probably 10 years. i mean, the last time we were together in july, i'm pretty sure we were bickering. which means it was at least when i was still living at 1039. which means it was a L-O-N-G time ago. 

and, though i can still remember a time when almost ALL of my friends said that it would be a L-O-N-G time before they had kids, well...almost all of us have had them...or acquired them or whatever. i can't believe i'm going to a shower for hfp, or hff, as the case may be. i can't wait to see my buddy...the one who was embarrassed to have received a red nighty our freshman year from a beau. she is very visibly pregnant. i almost misspelled the word. because i feel like we're not quite that old.

and i have a teenager. i never thought that i'd be celebrating my sister's 25th as the mother of a 15-year-old. and i can't wait to see him. this has been one of the longest two-week stretches of my life. i can't wait to laugh with him, to hear his music blasting from his bedroom, to see his sheets rumpled again. i miss my baby boy.

isn't it funny how the world works...and how God works in it? i'm pretty sure none of the people in my sphere could have foretold the things that will be tomorrow. but i'm thankful for every event. for every person. for the very reason that i will travel 450 miles. i'm thankful for today...and for all we've all become.