People become family in different ways.
You have a baby with the man you marry and the three of you become a family. Your baby, the genetic mashup of the two of you, along with your marriage vows somehow melts the little trio together into a mess of love, irritation, sleeplessness and loyalty. More kids come and then there is no turning back. This is your choice: you are a family.
But sometimes, very rarely, there are friends who become family.
Friends who love you before they’ve met you in person. They love your children, speak to them with gentle words and hold your three-year-old on their laps. They laugh with you until midnight three nights in a row, invite you back even after you’ve made a mess, cook for you, understand your crankiness, and actually want to see you again.
Your kids play games together in the lake and in the basement and give each other nicknames.
You look at them while they are cleaning the kitchen and wonder if you will be friends when you both are old ladies. You are sure you will.
Friends like this, they open their home, their hearts and their vulnerable places to you with wholeness and say, “There hasn’t been enough time..” as you drive away.
These types of friends are family, and maybe family of the best kind.
Thank you Denise and Kristen for an amazing weekend.
Oh, Sarah…
I couldn’t agree more. My friend Mary means this to me. She is more family than I could explain. What a wonderful comfortability.
you said it all sarah!
it wasn’t enough time. seeing you all again won’t happen soon enough.
miss you.
love you.
(when you get time, send me your pic’s you got some great ones.)
and actually CAN’T WAIT till they see you again because there hasn’t been enough time.
i miss you, and i’ll be missing you till i can be with you again tangibly, which will not be soon enough.
i love you sarah. thanks for sharing your whole family with me.
my heart is full.Stuffed!
So glad you were able to be with new peeps!
Beautifully written! Glad you had a good time!
love this. in all honesty, i have friends that are more “real family” to me than some of my real siblings. how blessed i am that God gives us so many gifts in so many different forms.
okay, you GOTTA send me a picture of the 3 of us together. i do not have one. and yours is the best.
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