a bad day turned good ....

I finally get a lunch date!!!! No more loserdom for me! My friend Deva Lynn and I met for lunch today... kind of... here's the story:

Today was going to be my big 5 hours off, but at the last minute my baby sitter canceled. It was quite traumatic. I didn't get her message about not being able to come. So I spent the whole morning getting me, the house, the boys ready for Cara to come over. It wasn't until I called her to finalize some details that she told me she wasn't coming. WHAT?! "Oh, didn't you get my message?" she asked me... "NO!" and so on and so forth.

I totally lost it. Broke down crying. I was so angry and hurt. I hadn't realized how stressed I had been and how much I was looking forward to a break (not to mention I had some errands to run which would have been much easier with out the kids). I guess in that moment everything caught up with me... Mason being gone, some medical stuff going on with both boys, my friend who's son died etc.....

I called Beth sobbing and she offered to take the boys while I went to lunch. When I got to Jason's Deli I realized that we weren't going to have enough time to visit before I had to go back to relieave Beth... so we got the order to go and headed back home (not before getting a picture taken - the ONLY known picture of us together!)

We ended up having a great visit. Braden was drawing at the kitchen table, Tristan was napping and Deva and I had over a WHOLE HOUR to visit!

After William died, Deva Lynn was my spiritual mentor and a best friend. We spent a lot of time with each other that summer. She took me to her church, went to bible study, prayed, laughed, went to the movies took the kiddos to Mr. Gattis ... But soon LIFE caught up with us. She had a third baby, Mason came home, she went back to work, I was on Steering Team for MOPS, we both got pregnant and had the babies with in a few weeks of each other... T for me number 4 for her. Since then we haven't seem much of each other... and now that PCSing (moving) is looming in the near future, I wanted to put seeing her and getting to spend some friend time as a priority.

The crying out of sadness turned into crying from laughing so hard... it was a good day after all.