Finding Gold

Sometimes friends come into your world, out of nowhere, and you feel like you have known each other for years. Living overseas can be a lonely life. Getting used to having a small friendship base goes with the territory. So when someone who is your same age, shares your same passions, laughs at the same jokes, and listened to Brandy in the early 90's, comes into your world...well, it's like finding gold in your backyard. Janelle and I may have driven our husbands crazy with all of our "girls night out" festivities, but I think they understood that we were squeezing what, in our own culture, would have been cultivated over years, into a few short months.

We miss you guys and treasure our season together: Stephen, Janelle, Micah, Amarissa, and Ezekiel.

Keith and Jenn plus ten....I mean six.

It's 5:00 a.m. and I am surrounded by unpacked clothes because I cannot seem to find a home for them in any of our five suitcases. We are beginning our travels back to Italy today and yet I find myself editing and posting these photos instead of tying up the loose ends (I mean PILES) of packing.

I met Jenn on a Wednesday night at church. We had just moved back to Indy from Chicago and for some out-of-character reason, when I saw her and three of her kids walking by, I grabbed her attention and told her that our kids looked to be the same ages. I have no idea how it went from there, but I DO know that they are some of our greatest friends.

They and their six kids are moving to Bosnia this year. We are dreaming of spending Christmas together on the other side of the world. I feel humbled, blessed, and happy to know these people and to consider them family.

Love you: Jenn, Keith, Delaney, Berkely, Cordelia, Wolfie, Thornton, and Almanzo. Is that it??? :)

Little People, Big Style.

If this isn't the most stylish, fun family you have seen in awhile, then...well, just take a look.

I normally don't post so many photos, but they are just so ridiculously cute! So much love in these seven Tisdales!