Jason and Jen.

August 10, 2018
Day 681

     This is how you know when two people have long gone from being friends to being a part of your family:

1. When they ask you and your husband to come stay in a castle in Italy.

2. When they provide you with the most delicious food in Italy.

3. When they ask you to come stay with them in their house in Italy.

4. When they make you homemade pici cacio e pepe. From scratch. Just because it's your favorite.

5. When they get lovely things to eat and drink like olives and mozzarella and the best red wine because again...it's your favorite. 

6. When they surprise you with the most beautiful picture of your daughter that you've ever seen. When it's in a beautiful frame that had to be picked up special in DC. When the frame has a monarch butterfly on it because they've read your blog and they know that fluttering monarchs mean that River is very near by. When tears are shed but it's okay, because they're family.

     So very thankful for my dear friends who blessed me beyond what words can say. I will never forget the love and thoughtfulness and kindness they showed me.