What a wonderful day...

Today, when I got up I thought I wasn't going to have a very good day. Normally, Tuesday's are my day off but I had to work today and I didn't get nearly enough sleep last night. So alarm goes off at 4:30am and I hit snooze a few times and off to work I go (no worries, I did shower).

Well, I get to work and check my email and I have an email from my bestest friend. She had sent me an e-card. I didn't have time to check it then but it brought a smile to my face. I thought, just maybe today wouldn't be so bad.

I then signed in to check my message boards. (I did stop and do actual work to, this is the abridged version as work stuff is boring). Well, a truly amazing woman and mom that I have never met, sponsored a giveaway for this totally adorable onesie. All we had to do was enter by June 30th and say what one of our wishes was for our little one. I figured why not enter, I would love to see what everyone wishes for. My wish was that our little one knows how much they are loved here in the US and in Ethiopia. Well, according to the random drawing, I won.

I was shocked and super happy. I can't wait to put this one my baby!

Thanks super mom out west. I hope someday my little one can say thanks to you for being so incredibly generous.

Okay ,back to work. No wait, I want to see the e-card. So I go back to me email and click the link. Have I told you that I have an amazing best friend? Well, she is fabulous. She wrote me the sweetest little note. It brought tears to my eyes. I so wish we didn't live 2000 miles away from each other. I miss her like crazy. I know she is always a phone call or email away but sometimes I just wish we could go grab coffee like we used to or eat chips and salsa or make lasagna. I could go on but I might cry. We have been friends for so long, I don't know what I would do without her. We have both hit bumpy roads in our life (I mean who hasn't between the ages of 14-32??) but we have always been there for each other.

I usually get to see her about 1 time per year when we travel for vacation to California aka my home sweet home. This year though, we can't go. We are saving money and vacation days for our trip to Ethiopia. We are going to Michigan but we can drive there. I know that she understands and is super happy for us but it still stinks. I want to see her and hug my adorable little nieces. They are getting so big and have always been cute but I miss their sweet little faces.

So as you can see my what I thought would be terrible day turned out to be not half bad.