To My Friend

First week with kids at work: not so fun.  Second week: better.  I've decided that the third week will be fabulous.  God has taught me/ is teaching me/ will probably have to continue teaching me that I am not Super Woman.  I cannot do everything, be everything, or be everywhere all the time.  So, I am listening and trying to put that concept into practice.  We'll see how that goes.
PrincessO has started crawling. She made it to the wall in the living room on Thursday.  She started the Roomba and attempted to gnaw on the cords coming out of the wall.  I had no idea she could get there!  Her birth uncle came to her visit this week.  This makes the second visit in 3 weeks.  I don't know anything else.  I am assuming this is a good indicator that he is pursuing custody.  We just keep praying for her protection.  Well, really I pray that I get to keep her, but above that that God continues to protect her.
This week our life changed yet again.  I (and my family) have been so incredibly blessed with a friend that has functioned like my mom away from my mom.  She is our Wampmomma.  She is the friend that I have called at 2:30 in the morning to bring Thing1 to so I could go to the hospital while pregnant with Thing2 having a gallbladder attack.  She is the friend that came to help with Thing1 when I went into labor with Thing2.  She is the friend that has told me to get over myself when I needed it, and the friend that has cried with me too.  I have fabulous friends, but it's not often you get a mom combo to boot.  This week she moved across the country to be with her husband.  I know that the decision to move was not an easy one for her, and the unselfish part of me is glad she is getting to start this phase of her marriage.  The selfish part of me thinks this stinks.  So, I am thankful for Skype, unlimited long distance, and Facebook.  It is not the end, just a change.  I have been thinking alot about an old Michael W. Smith song that perfectly fits the situation.


Packing up the dreams God planted
In the fertile soil of you

I can't believe the hopes He's granted
Means a chapter of your life is through

But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends

And with the faith and love God's given
Springing from the hope we know
We will pray the joy you live in
Is the strength that now you show

We'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends

And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends

To live as friends

Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends

No a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends