family

we had our house pizza 'make, bake & eat night' this evening. we do it once/week, and i always look forward to it. we make pizza from scratch together, and its a great group thing. we also invite others that we work with over, too. i had received another package from dad today, and in it was some cookies from church friends - which i was thrilled to get! i decided to share the cookies with the group that was here & they were all excited, too.

i say that to say this. they asked me the question: 'you seem to be so family oriented, you are always getting packages, talking about rachel, dad & friends, so what are you doing here, away from everybody?' i had to smile @ the question. i had to explain that a year & a half ago, when i applied to work here, i was looking for ways to get away. i then shared that that is no longer the case, but regardless im here. i had to realize that my actions are speaking louder than my words in explaining how much i am 'family' oriented, even though im here.

i got a gift from a friend here: its a shirt that has 'run forrest, run' on the front! i told them how i always wanted to name my firstborn son forrest, but that all my friends did not really like that idea. the better news is that she also gave me a little shirt - shirt, for say, my first born son, that has they same words on the front: RUN FORREST RUN!