Golden Friends

Have you heard that old song "make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver and the other gold"? As I get older I realize how true that is. I like that the old friends are the more precious metal. I also have a greater appreciation for The Golden Girls (who doesn't love Sophia - so sad she passed away this week).
In the middle of June, I got to see all my high school friends. It was our 10 year high school reunion. How could 10 years sneak by like that? There are people that require you to talk to or see them everyday otherwise the friendship fades. Then, there are friends that no matter how long it's been since you've talked or seen each other, they are just apart of you. My high school friends are laced through me.
This visit was filled with babies, babies, babies. Our little group has more than doubled. I feel our little family is just growing. I am Auntie Alicia to SO many children and I love it. I get to love on the babies but I don't have to chase them or wipe them.
One of my favorite parts was visiting with Aubrey Claire Skains. Now, I have lavished this little Fancy Nancy with shoes and clothes so you would think I would naturally be adored - not the case here. Little miss had just learned to shake her head "NO". I even asked if she wanted chocolate (followed by violent shaking of head and reaching for mommy).
Ah the plot thickens... Not to worry my dedicated readers. Little Aubrey soon remembered who enabled her soon-to-be shoe addiction and we were best buds once again. Make sure you notice the picture of Little Miss posing on the floor (below). I love my golden friends.

little lessons - recognize the back of someone's head

So, I've spent some serious time trying to find a great angle for my blog. What is going to keep people coming back to my blog to figure out what it going on? I'm still trying to figure it out but I do know that I love to learn and love when God gives me little life lessons.

One lesson I learned this weekend was the importance of the back of someone's head. (What?!!) I know it sounds weird but hang with me. I was fortunate enough this weekend to co-host a baby shower for Melodie and her new beautiful baby Holden. It was so wonderful to be part of such a wonderful celebration. At the baby shower, I was sharing my blog dilemma when I decided that I would take pictures of the back of people's heads, post them on my blog and then have people guess who's head it was (I know, weird, but again, hang with me). So I was all ready to post up my pictures when it God sent a little lesson to me. It occurred to me that recognizing the back of someone's head could help you know who to follow. So I share with you the back of heads of some new friends and some old friends.



"Freedom has a scent, like the top of a new born baby’s head" - U2 Miracle Drug

Answers:

1. Sarah Stunkard
2. Amanda Myers
3. Mrs. Russell Stanphil (hehe!!)
4. Jeremy's Niece
5. Mr. Holden (yeah!)

Everyone's Got a Blog But Me...

Alicia Brown, living in Dallas and learning. Everyday. My life has changed so much over the last 2 years. After graduate school, I took, what I thought was, the job of a lifetime. I moved 2000 miles away. Granted, I learned so much and have that great resume booster, but I feel I lost a part of who I was. I have since moved back to Texas and daily God is renewing me, repairing me and restoring me.
He restored Christian fellowship. The hardest part of my pilgrimage was that I had no church to call home. My first weekend back to Texas I went to my beloved Fellowship Church and tears streamed down my face, with reckless abandon. I felt that the last 2 years were spilling down my cheeks. I couldn't praise God enough. I felt I was home. I was surrounded by a thousand or so people all singing praise to the same God. I felt far from Him the last 2 years but felt Him holding me so closely. Each weekend I get so excited to go to church. I want to be there every day. I don't just want to soak in it I want to drown in the God's grace and His mighty plan. He brought me home.