Forever and ever, amen

I have been known to avoid going home like I avoid the plague. It's nothing personal. Its just a heck of a long drive and sometimes doesn't really cheer me up. But sometimes, when the stars align just right, home is this wonderful mythical place that makes life seem easier. This weekend just happened to be one of those times.

I had the pleasure of spending time with one of my oldest friends and catching up with her. Sitting on the porch with my dad and mulling over where I should go on my next big adventure. Watching the fireworks at Parliament Hill with two of my best friends, followed by some of the greatest puddle jumping I have EVER done :) Fries and gravy at the local diner. Beers on a back porch. Drives through the country. Long conversations with one of my best friends (henceforth known as - the beautiful disaster) where we compared notes on how much we are screwups and how to mess up a relationship before it has even started...HAHAHAH. Even and afternoon at the racetrack where I managed to double the gas money dad gave me!. Just that stuff alone would have been picture perfect.

On top of that - my Gammie (my family's name for our Grandma) had me over for an evening to chat and catch up. I've been feeling lately like I don't really know a lot about my family history, and this gave me the opportunity to ask all those fun girly questions I've been dying to know - like how my papa proposed and what their wedding was like. It was a great evening...they were married for 62 years and to hear her talk about him, and to see the look in her eyes, makes me know what love is meant to be like.

There is this old Randy Travis song that keeps popping into my mind these days. I have wonderful memories of my mom and I dancing around our livingroom to it...and there is part of the chorus that goes:
I'm gonna love you forever
Forever and ever, amen
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather
As long as old women sit and talk about old men

Its funny how something so simple as a song can seem to explain so much of the complexity of life. When I find a guy that makes me feel like this song - I will settle down, stop doing so much homework, and start building a stockpile of stories to tell my grandkids someday...until then...I'll be working 11 hour days and eating takeout :P

Lots of Love
Pamela

Currently reading: Nelson's essentials of pediatrics
Currently listening to: Jack Johnson
Currently digesting: Ice cream from Room for Dessert
Favourite sister in-law: Melinda, she gave me a tv!!!!