Best Friends

I had a great opportunity yesterday to just hang out with my best friend, Lana A.K.A Elle. I had told her last year that I would love to go to the beach and read and close my eyes and just daydream without worrying about supervising, feeding and bath-rooming the boys. The beach to me is one of those places that are meant for kids but it's hard to really relax when you are that close to large body of water.

Well Elle and I met after I dropped the boys at school and daycare. It didn't turn out to be the hottest day but really it's only May in Manitoba. We talked, we laughed and then went to the city and had a late lunch at the Olive Garden yum! It was just what the doctor ordered.

I have known Elle since Jr High: bad hair, bad choices, great fun and many adventures. We have had our growing pains but always have come back to being in each others lives.

Elle knows who I am, where I have been and where I am going, what I believe and what drives me crazy.....and she still loves me. I am so grateful for that acceptance and love, I can truly tell her anything and it's ok and because of this Jason and I asked Elle and her husband Donnie to be the guardians for Brodie and Korben. I was in tears when I asked her. It felt so huge and scary to even consider the idea of leaving the boys, and what if it was just too much for her and Donnie. I told her I wanted them to take the time they needed to think it over and do you know it was shortly after we left that lunch that the two of them said yes. I can't tell you what peace that gave me. I am so grateful to both of them for this gift. Who better to raise our kids but someone who knows us, gets us and loves us. I believe that is what God intended when he invisioned community, unconditional love and family.