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Friendship And Time

October 18, 2011 By Erika Zane

18 Oct

I’m both very happy and a little sad as I write this.

I had a very close friend of mine come to visit me.  We were friends as children and then she moved away.  My childhood, and apparently hers, were never the same after that.  I never had a friend during those years, other than my sister, who understood me the way she did.

It was really special to relive our childhood memories while watching our children play together.  She wrote a short post with a few pictures here.

She just left a couple of hours ago and it was so hard to say goodbye.  I miss her already.  I think it was especially hard because the last time she was here was in third grade, when she moved away. After that, I didn’t see her again for almost twenty years.

I know it won’t be another twenty years before I see her again.  We also have the benefit of modern technology which will allow me to see her next week if I want.  But I am going to miss having her and Bella here.  I’ll miss our three, or so, hour long conversations that kept us up way too late the past three nights.

This house feels a little lonely and quiet right now.

As Little Man naps, I’m sitting here thinking about what a great year it’s been.  In addition to this visit, I got to visit my friends in Colorado a few months ago, I made an amazing friend nearby, I have my mom & MIL down the road, AND we’re visiting my sister in a little over two weeks!!!

I love the women in my life.  Sometimes I wish we could all start our own little community (husbands can come too, I guess ;)) so I could hug them whenever I wanted.  But, since we can’t, I thank God for the internet and cell phones every day.

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Hello and welcome.  It’s been a while.  For Lent this year I decided to fast from the thing that took too much of my attention from what is truly important: Social Media.  Though there are countless amazing benefits to Social Media, after about a month offline so far, there are seemingly just as many negatives.  I never realized how much of my brain had been hijacked by it.  I’ve had so many revelations about how much easier it is to move forward when I’m not constantly reminded of the past.  But I still want to record my family as they grow at this ridiculous speed and, I’m realizing, so many of our family’s memories are here.  Those along with so many of the struggles and stages we’ve worked through.  Maybe in the midst of COVID19 isolation and my kids around me so often, I’m brought back to a time when they were too young for school and with me so often.  Writing here during that time helped make up for the limited adult conversation in my days and the overwhelm provided by my… little treasures 😉 My husband, fur babies, three fiesty kids, and I hereby extend an invitation to visit this little sneak peak into our life. We’re super flawed and broken and there aren’t too many dull moments around here.  And I promise it’s not always as magical as some of my golden hour, sun-soaked images would suggest.  There’s usually too much coffee in my system and we welcome all the prayers.  Come on over if you want to process with me.

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