We spent last night with the family, one more night.¬† We were supposed to leave yesterday afternoon, but we decided to hang around a bit longer and hit up one more “geocaching” journey with Ryan & Denise & Valerie.¬† David introduced us to this new hobby over Christmas.¬† It’s loggin in coordinances on a GPS of someone’s hidden ‘cache.” and going to find it!¬† I love it.¬† Last night was fun, we went on the Kali-Oka “Haunted Hunt” – Dead Man’s Curve, Cry Baby Bridge & The Haunted Plantation.¬† SOOOooo spooky & soo much fun.¬† I never knew the history around Keith’s parent’s local neighborhood.¬† Cry Baby Bridge has the spookiest sad story, read it here.
Sad goodbye’s last night.¬† My Sister-in-laws, have become my closest friends this year.¬† Valerie & Denise are truly sisters and I have enjoyed spending time with them.¬† Of course I will miss watching Isaiah & baby Judson.
Today we set out early.¬† Keith was shocked.¬† I was up @ 6:00 AM.¬† Ready to leave @ 8AM.¬† I’m not a morning person.¬† But today was full of potential.¬† The morning sky cracked away with glorious expectation.¬† I breathed it in.¬† Keith and I are closer than we have ever been.¬† The challenge of life has truly drawn us closer together…I’m so thankful for him and our deep friendship. People ask us all the time, what we do, why we are so close.¬† We just keep talking thru all of it.¬† The scariness of the future, our fears, our concerns, our joys our contentment – everything, we share.¬† And in everything, we listen.¬† We don’t “protect” each other by hiding the negative.¬† I think relationships gag from withholding feelings from each other.¬† I think when we make the covenant before God, he places a desire within us – that’s as evident as the ring on our hands, to come together to share and unite, but the enemy does his best to reverse that law.¬† God wants to strengthen that in us.¬† The communion inside the union is vital.¬† Even when communion is ugly, scary, embarassing, angry or unhappy – those are the ones that make for the trusting times even sweeter.¬† Kisses are always the best with tears of forgiveness and unity.¬† it’s like in that moment, life does not exist.¬† It’s just the 3 of us.¬† Keith, me and our loving Creator.
So this morning was Keith’s perfect day.¬† An early departure, a beautiful day & a stop along the way at Hardees for a biscuit!¬† He was so cute and so happy today.¬† I have not seen him this way in a really long time.¬† We were at Hardees at 8:30 on a Sunday morning.¬† Very weird.¬† We should have been rushing to church, planning a full day ahead, but rather sat back in the luxury and freedom of uninhibited time.
We arrived at mom & dad’s house just in time for KFC after church.¬† It was a good day.