An emotional night :)

Last night Josh and I went out to Mexican. On our way home, we decided to swing by the movie store and get a movie. I stated that I was just going to fall asleep so he could pick out the movie. It turns out that whenever I go into a movie store I always want to get one quick and get out. I hate looking around for a really long time. I tried to be patient but after a little while I told Josh that I was going to go wait in the car…he said he wasn’t going to be much longer so I waited. As I was standing there I saw this movie that I had remembered someone telling me about. It was called “Bridewar” and I then remembered Joelle telling me that she watched it one night and it reminded her of me. I went up to Josh and said, “This movie reminds Joelle of me, so we have to watch it sometime.” He said “okay, lets get it.” I was in a little shock but said “okay!”. In line he stated, “And this is why you don’t bring your wife into the movie store with you.” :)

So we started watching the movie. It is about two best friends who grow up together, get engaged around the same time and end up breaking apart during the planning of the wedding. The day of the wedding comes around they run into each other again right before they are going into their chapels to get married. They both look at each other and smile. One of the girls decides that she isn’t ready to get married and calls it off. She goes over to the other girl and tells her how sorry she is and how much she has missed her. The 2nd to last scene in the movie is the two girls meeting up 1 year later and breaking the news to each other that that they were BOTH pregnant and ironically had the exact same due date. The final part of the movie states how important companionship is and how many times the most important companionship is the friends that you grew up with.

Of course I started crying and told Josh that I was sad and that I left my friend that I grew up with back in Minnesota. At first he just smiled at me but after I started crying a little more he escorted me to the bedroom and told me to lay down with him. I went on about how Joelle and I always said that we would have babies together and that sometimes I thought about how that wasn’t going to happen because the Army wasn’t going to allow us to be in the same place again. He then said, “You find out where Joelle is going to be, tell her that you would like it to be near an Army base and we will go there.” I then asked well what if Joelle and Dane have babies before we get to the next station. He said, “When Joelle has a baby, we can have one.” I said, “So if Joelle gets pregnant tomorrow, we can too? “He smiled and said “yes.” Josh was going to stay up late but crawled into bed with his clothes all on to try to put me to sleep.

This morning I woke up and started thinking about last night. I came to the conclusion that the Lord has blessed me in all the areas of life. I may be pretty dramatic and emotional at times but somehow the people I love most know how to deal with me best.

I wanted to write this blog for you Jojo….one day we can play again friend.

On top of that I miss you ALL a lot a lot! Josh deals with a lot from me being so far away from friends and family so you can all ask him how much I miss you guys!

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Love you,
Gretchen