Today begins the first leg of my journey to the UK. I am full of conflicting emotions right now and can't wrap my head around everything I'm going to be doing, and everyone who has been so supportive of my quest thus far. I realized the past few weeks how truly blessed I really am to have such wonderful friends and family in my life that can help me achieve such a dream!
I am sitting in the room I always stay in at my grandparents house and I can feel the reality bubble hovering above me just waiting to pop and pour down on me that my dream is actually coming true! Until that happen, I will just continue on in a state of bliss that I'm traveling....even if my suitcase is a few pounds over the limit! I know when that bubble pops, stress will follow (no matter how many deep breaths I take), and life as I knew it will be over...
What happens from here on out will be documented in my blog. I will be on Facebook, but I think I can put more of me here than I can on a social media site where people would feel obligated to read about me when they sometimes don't want to! I can't promise to update as often as I would like, nor will I make that promise and live with the guilt of not being able to keep it!!! I may not always have funny stories, or be able to tell the stories to their full funny potential but I will record them hopefully for others to enjoy. I will post pictures of things and sometimes myself...but mostly of things and other people! I will try to recognize the people who have made this trip possible and show them some internet love in ways only words will be able to describe.
Tonight's 'London Person of Love' is more than one person! Tonight it is my grandparents in Weatherford, OK. Tonight it is some of my favorite people who always look at me with love, grace, joy and never with any judgment.
Tonight is my Grandmother who will always have "That smell" and any other person who wears her perfume will get a dirty look because they've made me think my Grandma is surprising me with a visit when they were just unknowingly breaking my heart because it wasn't true! Tonight is the homemade apricot pie she made for dinner and for all the wonderful smells she can make come from a kitchen with a loving heart and a pallet that no one can compare to. Tonight is her laugh-because if you can tell a story that makes Grandma laugh, everyone will laugh with her and the world will seem a little brighter.
Tonight is my Punkin with his tighter-than-a-bear hugs and when he holds you, there's no better place you could be in the world. Tonight is the humbleness he has for the world and what kind of an influence he makes on everyone he meets. Tonight is his smile that is full of true genuine love that is so rare anymore and that will be forever burned into my memory long after other memories have faded away. Tonight is the adventures we have had, big and small, and it doesn't matter what we are doing I know I'll love being with you both every minute.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to my Grandma and Punkin, without whom life would be harder, dreams would seem farther away, love wouldn't be as real and ice cream from Braum's would hold no sense of joy in my heart!
Till next time!
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