You know those weekends where you arrive home on a Sunday evening late and sit down on your bed for the first time in what feels like eons and realize that the weekend is already over when it feels like it was just Friday night and beginning?

Well, I have those quite frequently. But right now is one of those moments.

It's midnight thirty, yes, I do speak like that now. And I just arrived home and feel like the last time I sat on my bed (because its literally the only place to sit in my apartment, no joke) was Friday night and that seems like it was just 5 minutes ago but yet 48 hours has come and gone since then.

So reflecting on what all I did this weekend... a lot of fun stuff but nothing I really NEEDED to do. Story of my life though. Who wants to do the boring-blah stuff when theres a city to explore, friends to attend to, and a life to live? Come on, who?

I was supposed to pack and move this weekend seeing as how I now have 3 days left on top of house sitting and interviewing and still working and applying for a visa (which takes 5-6 hours of a day nonetheless), but of course I got as far as putting my books into a suitcase. Thats all. Granted I don't have THAT much stuff anymore because I have a little over 100 square feet and I am not a "stuff" person so over the last 4 months I have acclimated to the size of space I live in, but give me a break, Paris has all 54 seasons meaning I have a lot of shoes. ha.

Anyways, the updates include: happy 23rd birthday to a gem in my life life: Mme Grace!

And then today after our big Christmas service at church, my other British friend (I speak British English now so don't be surprised if you don't understand half the words I say when I get back to Texas, I don't even understand what I say sometimes...) hosted a Christmas dinner tonight so I spent all day cooking with her. Amazing memories and am so glad we did one last big hoorah! before we all parted for a week. Caroline and I have now managed to cook several major meals (tonights was for 12 people) together and we have decided we are moms-in-training and that we can now have an army of a family since we can cook for such large groups without problems. Just kidding about the army part.

I failed horribly at taking pictures this evening as I was sous chef and doing a lot the dirty work but it was such a fabulous evening with family/friends, lots of wine, laughing, and food! I didn't take a picture of the girls but they were there, ha. And this time was an "all British" meal with brussels sprouts and chicken. Americans had Thanksgiving and the Brits had to "one up us" with a typical british christmas dinner.

I am so blessed by the people that have come into my life in the last year and a half and that I have people who I can laugh with and laugh with and laugh with until I'm crying and then cry with but only because there is so much laughing going on. Life may be far from perfect, in my case at least, but at the end of the day, these people mean more to me than anything money can buy and the memories I've made with them are priceless! I will miss then tons while I'm gone for a week but can't wait to make memories with my biological family as we now call them, ha. 4 days! only 4 days!