Another 3am post coming at you!

I’m just going to go ahead and lean into these early morning wake-ups and embrace the fact that I get so much time to myself. It’s either that or obsess over the fact that I’m not getting enough sleep and that just leads me to feeling sleepy AND stressed.

In any case, I predict there will be a nap in my future.

For now, let’s share our weekend happenings.

Gina and Richard came to visit!

They got in around 5 on Saturday and they leave later today. Even though it was a short trip, it felt so nice to squeeze them.

We went for walks. Went to the lake and ate Jersey Mikes sammies (I think Gina loves JMs as much as I do). Played at the playground. Opened up early birthday presents. And, last night, we made pizza and watched a few episodes of New Girl after the babies went to sleep.

Yesterday, I was thinking about how we spent many a night – during college and the two years after when we lived on Barry Ave. – where we’d both stumble out of our bedrooms and plop down on that brown corduroy couch and watch reruns of Friends.

And now, many years later, the two of us went to our respective bedrooms around 7:30 last night, put our babies to sleep, and stumbled out into the living room half an hour later with messy hair and baby monitors and plopped down on the couch to watch TV together.

A little bit different. A little bit the same.

We are not those girls in our early 20s anymore. And, though everyone goes through these transitions and changes in their life, not everyone gets to go through that evolution with their college best friend.

It made me feel so emotional this weekend – sitting on the couch – watching our babies play with one another. Who knew that the baby teenagers that met on Rieber 3 North would, someday, have babies of their own that would become friends?

No.

Not friends.

Family.

Feeling extra grateful this morning to have had the weekend with these two.