#15-Change of plans

Today was supposed to be my first official full day back in Youngstown for a nice 10 day visit with my friends and football family. However, plans changed and now I'm stuck in Michigan for a few more weeks until I can make the trip again. My parents were going to drop me off in Ohio and then I was going to catch a ride back to Michigan with a friend. My ride back kinda got messed up. I couldn't drive myself because there is something wrong with the brakes on my car. Dang stupid car.

While I was there I was going to stay with different friends. We were going to hang out, talk, play with their kids and bake pumpkin rolls for Thanksgiving. This coming Friday would have been Shawn's 32 birthday so a group of the Coach's that I'm close with were going to go out and celebrate Shawn's life. Now I will celebrate here, and they will celebrate there. Everyone was so excited for me to come, I feel horrible that I couldn't just drive down myself. That is my plan for a few weeks from now. Hopefully there won't be a major snow storm during that time. This will be the first time EVER that I have driven further than an hour away alone by myself. I'm not a very adventurous person like that. Every long trip I ever went on Shawn was always there. So when I drive myself it will be a big exciting, nerve wracking thing for me. He will still be with me on the drive, just in a different way.

However, now when I go to Youngstown it will be closer to Christmas so my friends and I will be able to bake for Christmas...maybe Cheesecakes and pumpkin rolls. I'm hoping to get in some Christmas shopping in with them as well. I'm also excited because I will be able to give all my friends their gifts in person. I couldn't think of a single store bought thing that shows how important they all are to me, especially this year. So I decided to make them something with my own two hands. Yes, I'm going to attempt to be crafty. I have this vision in my head and it will be awesome and have lots of meaning behind it if it turns out. I'm going to start working on the gifts tomorrow. It will be a big secret until after Christmas because I know somebody in particular (Jennie) reads my blog, and I don't want to ruin the surprise. You will all have to wait until I get back from Youngstown to see what I'm making.

Ok, well it is getting late and I have to crawl into bed and read possibly the best book I have ever read Twilight. I didn't read as much as I wanted to today, Bo had other ideas other than being curled up on the couch reading with me. So we played most of the day instead.