Fond Farewell

Last week we said goodbye to Jamie and Claire as they headed off for their new adventure in Ohio. Ok, it wasn't so much a fond farewell so much as it was an extremely depressing farewell. On the one hand I'm genuinely excited for them and their new opportunity, but on the other hand, my more selfish hand is screaming "but what about me! now I don't have any friends in this wretched state!" (Obviously I'm exaggerating. My hand doesn't really scream at me.) I've had lots of different kinds of friendships over the years: girlfriends, guy-friends, good friends, best friends, frenemies, older friends, younger friends, church friends, non-church friends, work friends, etc. But I've never had a friend who was going through so many of the same things I was going through at the exact same time: pregnancy, newborn blues, full-blown post-partum depression, mourning the break-up of Oasis, moving to Utah, feeling like outcasts during the election because we weren't Republicans/conservatives, and all the while being completely financially strapped. We did a lot of commiserating over McDonald's one dollar Diet Cokes.

Sorry in advance for all the duck faces and peace/gangster signs. 

 

And the girls, oh how much fun it has been to watch them grow up together. Shye doesn't give a hoot about most kids. She prefers cats. But the one kid she does like is Claire. She even gives her hugs, which is more than the average person can expect to get from Shye. Needless to say, Shye and I are going to miss them. Who knows, maybe a roadtrip to Ohio will be in the near future. :)