CF spent a weekend in WI for an interview recently and saw a bunch of his friends, some of whom will not be there when we are in town for Thanksgiving this weekend. As a matter of fact, the friends we stay with are leaving T-day and we are dog sitting their Boston terriers for the weekend. Then CF was asking about Christmas and when we would be leaving and returning from my parents' house. Well, the way I see it, we should spend at least as much time at my parents over Christmas as we do with his friends over Thanksgiving! Then I started adding up how much time I have seen my family in the past year, and I am pretty sure it is less than we spent with his family in Germany. Not that I am going to keep a tally, but it would be nice to spend a bigger chunk of time with my family than a weekend ever four or five months. This also exemplifies why I think the two of us living in the Midwest indefinitely is silly - we have to fly to see both families and there is all our vacation time for the rest of our lives.
Anyway, all this and CF not wanting to move and thinking about realistically how long I think it will be until I can write up a paper REALLY got me missing my friends too. I have managed to have email conversations with some friends recently and discovered lots of people check in here, which is great! Hi, people. :-) Thank you for emails and phone calls and postcards and FB likes and posts. I owe many people calls and emails back, but in the meantime, I think of you often even if I do not get in touch as frequently. Have wonderful weekends with those you love. Me? Yes, I am looking forward to a full weekend with CF...and also the one-week old who will be at Thanksgiving.
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Totally can't wait to get my hands on babies for these next two days. :-) It's also not unusual to not see friends as much as you get older. It's sort of the growing pains of balancing friendship with life-you just got to delay that feeling a bit with grad school. They're still as good of friends, but (from experience) your oldest friend can live 25 minutes away and you, sadly, only see her 2-3 times per year because life is too busy. With your good friends, though, you just pick up where you left off. It's all about email and phone and facebook in this day and age, and I try to be thankful that I DO have those resources so that I feel like I'm still in touch with friends, even if we aren't together all that often.
Happy T-Day! We'll see you soon!
Oh, I know all that - and have accepted it when it comes to college friends (sorry guys), but I have a nice group of friends back in Boston. :-) You, my family, is stuck with me anyway. ;-)
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