Visit from Miss C...

We expected "our" Miss C to drive up here tomorrow with her friend E, but their schedule got changed around a little bit and 'the kids' came up this afternoon.  It's been a good few months since the last time we saw C.... she worked in Yellowstone National Park for the summer, and then she started a new job shortly after she got home.... and then the holidays came.  So we had to make up for lost hugs between then and now.

The house is so much more alive when C is here....... she talks and laughs and tells me about her friends and her job..... and her happiness just bounces from one end of the house to the other.  She was a very special little girl, and now she's grown into a very special young lady.  Tomorrow is her 23rd birthday, so we celebrated today with chocolate cake that I baked yesterday and frosted just before they drove up the road.

I wish my husband could have been here for C and E's visit, but he was working.... he would have loved hearing all of C's stories about working in Yellowstone. Her friend E worked there also--- that's where they met. Between the two of them, they had me laughing most of the day and I couldn't believe how quickly the hours just disappeared.

When we lived in Clear Lake, C was in and out of our house all the time.... we had holidays together, she and her parents came to our parties, C had sleep-overs at our house, my husband took her and her friends to the Go-Kart rides.... we took C to the theater in downtown Houston.... the list just goes on and on.

I truly miss those days.  But C and I keep in touch with the phone, so it's somewhat the same.  We still share the same heart, just not the same neighborhood.

---This is from C's Facebook page... a quote from Charles Dickens:   "Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."  (That quote alone says a lot about C's character.)