#8- Week with Meg

For this post I thought I'd share about the great week that I spent with one of my best friends Meg. Meg and I met at Northern Michigan University where we were both going to school. Our majors are the same so we quickly started spending time together. We had almost all of our classes the same, hung out, ate, exercised, talked about everything, and of course shopped all the time. I tell ya, her and I can find some killer deals on clothes on our shopping trips. Once we both got a pair of Tommy jeans originally priced for $75.00 but we each paid only $5.00 for them. We have also been known to have some killer long phone conversations...like hours or more. It used to drive both of our husbands nuts. O-well, we have a lot to talk about.

Meg is totally opposite of me, she is much calmer now that she has a cute little family but back in the day at school, she was a little on the wild side. I however was a bit more calm. Meg tried and tried to break me out of my shell. I admit one night she did win, we went to several bars that night, and I had WAY more to drink than I normally have, but in the end we had a great time. Since then we have both grown up. I was married when I met her, but she was not. Megan graduated one semester before me. That last semester I was so lonely up there without her. We talked multiple times a day.

The last time Meg and I actually saw each other was almost 5 years ago. I was in her wedding, but that was right when we were going to be moving and had no money, so I couldn't attend. In those 5 years of not seeing each other I don't think we have ever gone longer than 3 or 4 days with out talking. We always pick right up where we left off last time. Since our friendship started we have gone through, two pregnancies (hers and 8 weeks of mine), one wedding, a few fights with husbands, a few arguments with our families, and the death of Shawn. We have always been there for each other and I know we will always continue to be there for each other.

While Meg and Logan were here this week we pretty much just hung out and talked. We went out to lunch every day and also shopped everyday. Megan said I need to update my look, so we had to go shopping. It was so great just to hang out together and talk in person. We also went to the cemetery. Shawn and Megan were pretty close as well. There were many times when Meg would call to talk to me, Shawn would answer and spend the whole time on the phone with her. The day we went was the morning that they put in the headstone. I'm so glad that Megan was able to see the stone. I think it meant a lot for her to see it. On her last day in town we went to Pizza Hut for lunch. We started off with just silly conversation but then it quickly turned to Shawn. We must have looked very strange, two women with a baby sitting at their table, pizza in front of them with tears streaming down both faces. We talked about several different memories that we each had of Shawn. Until that moment, we had talked about Shawn, but hadn't "really talked". We finished our lunch went to the mall, and on the way home stopped at the cemetery. On the drive back home we talked some more about Shawn with more tears. I think it was good for both of us to talk about Shawn that way. Megan told me how much she misses him too. After all Shawn was her friend too. She also told me how much she hurts for me because she knows I lost my best friend and my husband. It is so great to have a girlfriend like Meg. I have so many great friends in my life right now. I wouldn't be able to get through this without them all.

The pictures that follow are some random pictures that we took. Most of them are of me and Logan. Meg wanted to take lots of pictures of the two of us to put in Logan's room. When she got home she was talking to her husband about me, she said that every time she said my name Logan would look around for me. Can we say so sweet!
Logan and I were telling secrets in this picture.

Here we were full out laughing. I was making stupid faces and he was cracking up.

Logan and Jenny. God could he be any cuter?

Megan, Logan, and Jenny sitting out the couch the night before they left.

Well Meg and Logan left Friday morning. I can't wait till we meet up again. This time it is my turn to visit them. I'm going to take the train to Chicago. We both know for sure we won't wait 5 years to see each other, we are talking more like right after Christmas.

Thanks for reading and sharing my life with me.