Well, my family is here for the week, and it's a clown show. Of course my dad chose to stay in a ridiculously redneck place called the Thunder Lodge, that is a small group of these cabins, equipped with a community shuffleboard concrete slab. And the little boys are running wild, Em is doing nothing, Joe is watching tv, and my parents are walking everywhere (of course) and asking a trillion questions about this summer, whatever I did that day, and about the fall.
But it's really weird being around my family now, after being away from home for the past year. I didn't really spend much time at home in high school anyways, but I feel like I have grown up so much at school and Noah's, and learned how to be very independent. As a result, I don't really know how to relate to bickering little siblings anymore. I still love love love hanging out with Zach and Nathan, but it can get so frustrating when I'm at dinner with everyone, and the kids are tearing each other down to make themselves look better and just arguing about stupid things. I know everyone does that at least slightly, as a part of human nature, but they can get a little ridiculous.
And it's hard to find a good balance between spending time with them while they're out here, because I won't see them for another month or two, but also spending time with my friends from the summer who are leaving within the next week who I will only see once (and that's only if they go to the Gauley in West Virginia in September) before next summer. So it's been weird, but good and fun, having them out here.
That wasn't very interesting.. Pretty boring.
ps. crush status: over.
I loved these last two blogs.
ReplyDeleteI totally understand about the family stuff. Therre are little things you forget about that all of a sudden you don't know how to handle anymore.
As for the crush, well, you win some, you lose some. Plus, as I said, now we can go by our original plan!!! Starting Thanksgiving when we are both home at the same time!!!!!
Liz, I can tell how much you've grown just by this post. That's what you call good writing. Likewise, love these past two posts too. You sound a little solemn though. The world is ahead of you! I'm uber excited to hang out with you when we return to school. Every year will be different than the one before, depending on what you make of it.
ReplyDeleteHow bout those for encouraging words? I really hope all in all you're doing great and I miss you. I want to know every infinitesimal detail of your summer, please.
PS: trevor and i were emailing today about early check in, and it's decided that our faces will be tattoed on his arm (someday). Something to get excited about.
You are truly an angel. Don't ever forget that.
PSS: May we take a bunch of freshman to Qdoba and be the upperclassmen that we needed the first few months of school? k thx