This has been a really busy week…I managed to upload some photos to my blog but hadn't found the time to actually write…..until JUST NOW.
Last weekend was SUCH a good weekend….
There was a girl I worked with at the donut shop years and years ago…..when I was a teenager…15-19, I worked there. Anyway her name was Jen and she was a really cool chick. I dug her. We kind of hung out….we didn't get super close, but I did consider her a friend. She is the one who did the cross tattoo on my hand….Indian ink, needle and some string–the old school way! LOL 🙂 I wound up finding her on facebook, she is really close to my very close friend, James and I saw her as one of his friends, so I had to add her. So we've been back in touch and we keep making plans to go out. We finally got to last Saturday and I had SUCH a good time!!!! It was so awesome to see her and visit with her and then go party with her…..another moment of I am SO GLAD we moved back here!!! It is really a good feeling to be able to hang around with people who "knew you when"…..and can appreciate how much you've grown. And the funny thing is….there is so much of Jen that has not changed a bit! She is still a wise ass, funny as hell and doesn't take any shit from anybody–my kind of girl! I loved seeing that she hasnt' changed all that much. She even looks pretty much the same…..I had such a good time with her that I cannot wait to do it again!!! She got some pics of us and I'm gonna right click and steal one from her facebook page and post it…..but first let me finish writing….
So Saturday was already a pretty awesome friggin' day and we had a busy day, Sunday….we were taking the kids into Boston, South Boston to be exact and go to Castle Island with Freddy. (my cousin..) We had an absolute BLAST. I hadn't been to Castle Island since I was a little girl and it was really cool to be able to take my kids there and Zak, WITH Freddy!! When we were growing up, me, my brother and my sister and my three cousins, grew up like brothers and sisters. It was not like we were cousins and we always imagined that we'd grow up, get married, have kids and then OUR kids would hang out together. We always imagined we'd still be close when we grew up. In our adult life, we all managed to get pretty seperated…me in Alaska, Marky in Alabama, Seany in Georgia…just crazy all over the place. We still stayed pretty close in our hearts…but we were about as spread out as you can get. And it was sad for me…sad that life didn't work out the way we all imagined it would. Well…with Freddy getting out of jail AND Sean deciding he was moving back up here and me coming back last year… .it just feels like we are all "coming home…" and I LOVE it. I love that we are together again…..So as we were pulling into South Boston, to pick up Freddy, Seany is texting me…saying his is driving onto the Cape….and it blew my mind for a moment….I couldn't believe it was happening….here I am on the way to SEE Freddy and Seany is texting me cause he's back home, right at that moment……it was just a little feel good moment that made me realize how happy I am that I am back home….
After Castle Island, we went to Carson beach and the kids had a BLAST. Me, Zak and Freddy sat on the beach and talked while the kids swam and made sand castles…..then Freddy had to get back and Zak and I had decided that we would take the kids on the subway and go to downtown Boston. Obviously the kids have never been on a subway and neither has Zak, (no honey, the Seattle airport subway does NOT count….lol ) so I was super excited to do a "first" with them. So we left Southie and drove over to Dorchester, Savin Hill neighborhood….my childhood neighborhood…and found a place to park the car and we walked to the train station. The same train station that I walked to when I was little….the train station I walked to every morning of 9th grade to take the train to school….I LOVED it. They loved it….it was so fun! We walked around downtown for awhile and got some pics….the kids had a blast, they loved chasing the pigeons in Boston Common and they LOVED going into an old graveyard and checking things out. This graveyard was actually really amazing….Paul Revere is burried in it. John Hancock….and a few other famous people….we got some pics…..
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I'm a little bummed I didn't get pics of the kids at the beach, the kids with Freddy, ME with Freddy, the kids on the train….but I guess I was just too busy living the moment to be worried about capturing it…..not a bad thing, in my book, but pictures WOULD'VE been nice……maybe next time!! LOL
All in all it was just an amazing weekend…..so fun and emotional and sentimental…..I'm so happy to be getting out DOING things here, FINALLY!!!!
Enoy!!!
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