March 19, 2011
Lincoln and I went on a double date last night with some friends of ours. Our babysitters were my mom and step-dad and they came down to the house and stayed overnight. THAT WAS SO NICE! Anyway, they brought their own coffee maker because we don't drink coffee (and the only pot we have is the 30-cup one). This morning at 6 am it started brewing and the smell was so familiar. It wasn't the usual coffee smell that I usually don't like to smell, but it was a smell I remember from living in Kansas. It reminded me of when my parent's came down to stay with me after I had Luke and then again after I had Ashlyn. I had them for a week each time and it was awesome. I woke up to or at least spent the morning smelling that smell every day they were there. I remember when they left my house in Kansas, I went back in the house and just cried and cried. And the smell I wasn't necessarily fond of was the smell that I was hoping wouldn't go away for a few days. It was a rough couple of days after they left each time. The smell at 6 am this morning brought me back to those days and back to my house in Kansas. There are some things I miss about living in Scott City....the group of ladies I learned my scrapbooking from, the couple that we got to know first because of the farm and the people we met through them, the weather....I bet it'll be in the 80's there tomorrow. Our neighbors would be watering their lawns in January the first year we were there....3 weeks later we drove back to MN to -20 degrees. :) But, I missed ALL of my family and friends horribly. It really brought me down a lot, although I tried to get through it as best I could. It was rough not having mom there for the births of my first 2 babies and to help me the first few days. She was there for the 3rd though and that is actually when I needed her most. We were back in MN and she was there. She got to see Chloe being born and she was there the first day back to make supper. Turns out the third child would put me into postpartum depression.....thank God I was back in MN for that. I don't know what I would have done if I wouldn't have been here.
Anyway...warm fuzzies this morning, having the smell of something I really don't like bring me back to 9 years ago. Ironically, it was this same week that they came and met Luke for the first time. Funny how things work out.
Lincoln and I went on a double date last night with some friends of ours. Our babysitters were my mom and step-dad and they came down to the house and stayed overnight. THAT WAS SO NICE! Anyway, they brought their own coffee maker because we don't drink coffee (and the only pot we have is the 30-cup one). This morning at 6 am it started brewing and the smell was so familiar. It wasn't the usual coffee smell that I usually don't like to smell, but it was a smell I remember from living in Kansas. It reminded me of when my parent's came down to stay with me after I had Luke and then again after I had Ashlyn. I had them for a week each time and it was awesome. I woke up to or at least spent the morning smelling that smell every day they were there. I remember when they left my house in Kansas, I went back in the house and just cried and cried. And the smell I wasn't necessarily fond of was the smell that I was hoping wouldn't go away for a few days. It was a rough couple of days after they left each time. The smell at 6 am this morning brought me back to those days and back to my house in Kansas. There are some things I miss about living in Scott City....the group of ladies I learned my scrapbooking from, the couple that we got to know first because of the farm and the people we met through them, the weather....I bet it'll be in the 80's there tomorrow. Our neighbors would be watering their lawns in January the first year we were there....3 weeks later we drove back to MN to -20 degrees. :) But, I missed ALL of my family and friends horribly. It really brought me down a lot, although I tried to get through it as best I could. It was rough not having mom there for the births of my first 2 babies and to help me the first few days. She was there for the 3rd though and that is actually when I needed her most. We were back in MN and she was there. She got to see Chloe being born and she was there the first day back to make supper. Turns out the third child would put me into postpartum depression.....thank God I was back in MN for that. I don't know what I would have done if I wouldn't have been here.
Anyway...warm fuzzies this morning, having the smell of something I really don't like bring me back to 9 years ago. Ironically, it was this same week that they came and met Luke for the first time. Funny how things work out.
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