To my “little sisters"

You two probably don’t realize all that you have done for me. I met you both while working at a job that I absolutely hated, but you two made it so enjoyable for me. I would look at the schedule and pray that we had shifts together! I honestly don’t remember the turning point from co-workers to friends, but man am I happy it happened. Looking back now, it feels like we’ve been friends for years!

You both were there for me while my husband was deployed, you kept me distracted from the passing time. We would go to lunch, shopping, painting, literally driving around aimlessly, and they are some of the best memories I have. For some reason, you trusted me enough to go on a road trip and drove all the way to Clarksville, TN with me and it was such an amazing, yet short lived weekend. Driving all over Nashville, trying to find murals I found online, losing my car in downtown Nashville, walking on the pedestrian bridge, trying to find which way the wind was blowing so we could get the perfect picture, getting a cupcake out of an ATM, getting flowers off of the cutest truck on the side of a road; I will never forget that weekend, and I’m so happy I spent it with you two.

Even when I moved away for a few months, we still talked every single day. We never lost track of each other, and y’all were the first to know when I was coming home. You two were the ones I complained to when something went wrong, or I was just flat out annoyed with life. And when I told you I was moving home, and then the reason why, you were the perfect mix of happy and heartbroken.

And you two stepped up to the plate again. You kept me distracted while my husband was leaving me. You took me shopping and we went to lunch and we drove around aimlessly, just like before, but it was different this time. This time I didn’t have the excitement of him coming home soon. This time it was worrying about Hayden, trying to figure out what to do now, hating that I was back at my old job that I despised. But you both kept me strong, you both reminded me that I can do this.

Even when I started letting someone back into my life, you both were happy for me, yet cautious. You didn’t want to see me get hurt, again. And what happened? I got hurt. Again. But, you two never once wavered. You both told me what I needed to hear, even though it’s not what I wanted to hear.

In our short couple years of friendship, you both have done so much for me and it has meant everything. I’ve never believed that friendship should be judged on the amount of time, but rather the actions of the relationship. You two are the little sisters I never got but always wanted. And please, learn from my mistakes and life stories, don’t repeat them. Even though I’ve had a lot of fun, I don’t want y’all to end up broken like I am. You two are my extraordinary relationship and I’m so happy God placed you both in my life exactly when I needed you.

I love you.