Steph's ENCOURAGING Mondays.....
This weekend my parents
visited me here in Indy. If you don’t know my hometown is in Evansville
Indiana. So they traveled over 230 miles, just to come see me for two days. Oh
and did I mention my younger sister is 37 weeks pregnant….(and very moody.) Although
I just saw my family last weekend back home for Christmas break, they haven’t
been up to Indy since they moved me in last summer. So this weekend was a good
opportunity to show them what I’ve been up to and what I do on a normal basis.
They finally got to see where I work, where I go to church, and what I do in my
free time. The biggest struggle for my dad was not being able to watch tv while
us girls got ready in the morning. Being a full time student and working part-time
I don’t have time to watch television. (Sorry dad.)
On top of my
family spending almost 4 hours in the car at night to come see me, they brought
our dog Jack along for the ride.
Spending over 10 minutes in the car with Jack stresses me out enough with
him running back and forth from window to window. (We need to invest in a doggy
seatbelt.) Within the first 5 hours of my parents getting up here my dads car
got towed. Which pushed our plan back a couple hours that morning. Once we got
the car back we then decided to head into the city. In Evansville they don’t
have Dunkin Donuts, so they were set on eating breakfast there. In the meantime
my sister was craving chocolate milk…. and of course they were out. (Not a
happy camper after that) The plan for
that night was to go visit where I work and then walk around the city and see
all the pretty Christmas lights since they were still on display…. Once we were
done eating it started pouring raining and we noticed that the lights had been
taken down earlier that day. So we just decided to go back to the apartment
instead.
Although this weekend didn’t turn out like I planed, with
my dads car getting towed, getting rained-in and not being able to show them
the beautiful city at night, no cable, sister being pregnant, sharing one
bathroom, and my parents having to sleep on a uncomfortable air mattress.
Honestly wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. We got to relax and just enjoy
each other’s company, watch a movie together (which hardly ever happens), and
just talk. This weekend was the last
time the FOUR of us would spend time
together, before my nephew Eli is born. Life at the Wilhite home is going to
become a little wild in the next coming months. I am truly grateful for the
time I got to spend with my family. I know I don’t say it enough, but I truly
do love spending time with them. We four butt-heads a lot, but to me that what
keeps things interesting.
So I ENCOURAGE you to spend more time with your families
this year.
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