i always have these grand ideas to post about my friends.... deep & meaningful posts about how these really really phenomenal women are actually my friends & how they are so great that i get insecure when i think about how just how great they are & i just wait around for them to open their eyes one day & say:
"ginny? why am i friends with her when i am so awesome".
but they don't do that, they aren't like that.
instead they do things like tell me happy birthday & make a big deal out of it being my birthday on april 27, when i was actually born on october 27. october 27 is when we said goodbye to eliot, so that will not be a day i'll want a birthday. so i look at these women and tell them through confusion & grief that i just want my half birthday to be my real birthday. so they send me text messages saying "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" & give me earrings over coffee & take me to dessert & bake brownies & show up with lunch & their kids & gifts & cupcakes & Jesus.
at eliot's funeral, when matt left my side to go up front & speak, my friends stepped up & surrounded me & i felt safe...i felt like it would be okay because if my knees buckled, our arms were locked & they wouldn't let me fall.
it has felt that way ever since. they live with me as i live with the ache of missing eliot. then through having hazel & bedrest with anders & dreaming of lena then being gone so long to ukrraine & now in all the adjustments & newness of having lena home....they lock arms with me.
and ya know what? i lock arms with them, too.
all of my friends are talented in different & wonderful ways. 2 in particular are ridiculously talented in home creativity & decor...& when i tell them they need to make a living doing this stuff & that they could be big-time they both laugh in my face. while we were away in ukraine they finished up many projects in my home. here are just a few of all the wonderful things they put together for us while we were away. heather & sarah, laugh all you want, but you are GOOD at what you do!
they re-did all of our shelves...i wish i had a before picture, but trust me they didn't look near this awesome.
more work on the shelves & sarah made 2 of those 3 pillows.
carpet samples & pictures in our hallway. seriously, how cool is this?!
a closer look
anders curtains.
black curtains with nav/blue/cream accent & red garage hooks for tie-back.
anders book shelves
these are tissue paper flowers i had at hazel's birthday party in october & i was about to throw them away when heather said "aren't you gonna do something fun with them?"...to which i said "aren't YOU gonna do something fun with them?":) so she did.
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