Friends, Family, and Home

So I missed my post last week because I was home visiting with friends and family.  

I love going home because I love seeing my family and visiting with friends.  I love catching up on life and seeing what has changed in life, in my home. However when I'm home with my family I miss Andrew.  I miss my friends. I miss the feeling of our new home and life we started and are finding in Kansas City. When I'm home I know that soon enough I'll be back in my new home.  I'm never home for long enough but I'm always gone long enough from Andrew.

When I'm back home in Kansas City though I miss my home, the crazy love that my family and I share. I don't miss the love filled teasing from sisters. I REALLY miss singing with my twin sister, best friend, Megan.  I miss having a singing buddy.  I miss my parents who know how to make things right and make things feel better. I love being in my new home because I feel like I am finding myself some more than I could at home.

With Andrew being very busy with school I have relied on friends a lot! I also try to keep busy with working out or binging on Netflix! My girls and I like to have evenings of baking and drinking wine and venting and relaxing! I think friends are the key for getting through...for the med students and their partners.  Most of us are away from home so it's nice to create our own little families.

I feel so lucky to have two "homes" but I cannot wait until I can have them in the same city!! I hope that happens some day. I hope some day after Andrew is done with school and residency that we can move back to Springfield but I'm not making any definite plans because I have learned that our definite plans don't turn out.  I'm learning to just go with the flow these days...

Home Is Where the Heart Is

Sometimes I'm here in Kansas City thinking back over the past year or so and I can't believe it.  Sometimes it all seems so crazy that Andrew and I moved away from our parents and homes and moved to Kansas City (where I am very glad we do have some family) to start a new journey.  Andrew started med school while I started a new job at yet another day care.  I love working with children and they can just really brighten your day like no one else can sometimes...I think it's their innocence... The stress of working at a day care just became too much though and I found a new job or rather two new jobs. I'm working at a scrub store and will be starting a new job doing infant hearing screening.  Andrew has said I'm not allowed to work in day care anymore because he has seen how happy I am working in a less stressful environment.

All the change has been surprisingly good.  I don't usually deal well with change but I have found a few friends and am working on finding myself, just learning to be happy and embracing life.  I miss my home and parents like crazy a lot but I slowly catch myself feeling like Kansas City is my new home.  It really might be about surrounding yourself with love that makes somewhere home...

The changes will always be coming because that's what life is but I think this year the changes will continue to be good because I will be marrying my best friend (too cliche?) this fall...according to our bed bath and beyond registry it will be in 184 days! :)

I'm excited for my life :)

P.S. I was getting ready to post this on facebook with an introduction about how I'm just kind of writing and seeing what comes out...I'm not sure if that's how you're supposed to do it to make a good blog like my sister's fashion blog.  I might be a little biased but I think it's a fantastic blog.

If You're Happy and You Know It...

Clap your hands?

I'm learning to be happier and I want to share it with others because I want to see my friends and others happy!!

I recently came across this app for the iphone called Happier where people post statuses about something that makes them happy, feel good, etc.  Others can "smile" at your statuses or click a button that says "me too". Yes I know you can do the same thing on facebook.  I've seen the 100 days of happy from several friends on facebook.  My problem? I feel like it's way too easy to be negative on facebook and that doesn't help me and it doesn't help anyone else.  I try to remember to post on Happier at least once a day it makes it easy to remember the good things of the day and I don't even bother thinking of the negatives.

So today the things that make me happy?
I spent a lot of time with one of my best friends here in Kansas City! 
After work we went to Kansas City Pet Project to walk some dogs (that makes me happier and the dogs!)
I enjoyed the lovely weather today :)

I hope you guys are thinking of all the happy things that are going on in your lives :) 

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