For one reason or another, I’m finding it impossible to fall asleep tonight. I guess, perhaps, I should be waking up earlier. That makes too much sense, though.<\/p>\n
To fill my time, I decided to start digging through my closet and found a box that I recognized from my first year of college. It is a covered shoe box in which I kept a bunch of letters and notes from that year. I normally don’t keep that kind of stuff, but tonight I am so happy I did and that I found it.<\/p>\n
I started my college experience sad about leaving home and rooming with a girl who had different interests than me. (Okay, I was a basket case!) It’s amazing the way the notes and letters change after I moved rooms and made some more friends. I must say, though, I was so fortunate to have two sisters and a grandma that loaded my mail box with sweet notes and cards and my best friend just a floor away during that miserable time. And what seemed like a lifetime is almost forgotten to me now.<\/p>\n
Amongst the letters I found notes from Bill written during our first couple months of dating. I can’t help but wonder just how confusing I must have been during that time! Even so, he was sweet to me. It’s so easy to let the years go by and to become so comfortable with each other that you forget what that “head over heels” beginning was like. I like to think, though, that we can still be head over heels. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
The real treasure in the box was the stack of letters from Grandma Aune. I remember smiling every time I found one in my mailbox… almost all of them had a smiley face drawn on the back of the envelope. Inside there were the details of life at the lake… she knew I missed being there. So, I’m now home and working on adjusting to the fact that Gram and Gramp are living in Virginia now – it’s strange to me. There house is too quiet, so I have been going over to start a fire and watch a little TV now and again. I am sure they miss the lake every bit as much as I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For one reason or another, I’m finding it impossible to fall asleep tonight. I guess, perhaps, I should be waking up earlier. That makes too much sense, though. To fill my time, I decided to start digging through my closet … Continue reading