Friends that Bless

I'm not sure if I have raved about the friends that we have here, but today my heart is so full, I can't help but gush over one particular couple.

Maybe I'm feeling especially blessed because we just had yet another wonderful evening with Ramiro and Yuneth.

Ramiro used to work with the same organization as us, but we didn't get to know him very well.  Yuneth is a director of a partner organization, and even though she comes for meetings often to our office, I don't think that was the place where we clicked.  We also go to church with them, I play on the music team with them.  Our lives had many places of intersection.

I can't say for sure, but I think we clicked because one day they invited us for lunch and as we sat on the patio visiting, we realized that we had very similar children and that we had very similar parenting experiences.  And from there we talked about our experiences as parents, our own childhood, our testimony....we stayed there for 4 hours talking about everything and anything.

I really had to work to keep up language wise because you know how rapidly I speak in English?  Well, Yuneth speaks like that in Spanish.  I love it! even if I can't catch every word.

Then a short while after that great lunch at their house, we decided that instead of always saying, "Hey, we should get together sometime," because sometime never happens, we planned that every other week we would get together.

We would go over to their place, they would come to our place, we'd go to a park or out for ice cream, sometimes it would be with the kids, sometimes not.

And that's how it's been for a while.

I tell you, they have been such a blessing.  Despite the language barrier (at times it's small and other times it's a bit medium size) there is something between us where we click.  We connect as couples and we gals and our guys click too.  Plus the kids play really well together, even if there is a ton of drama between them all.  Where do you find that type of great combination in friends?

They have been really open with us and we have been with them.  We talk about our fears and our joys, things that make us really angry, politics, theology, and cooking to name a few.  We laugh our heads off and we cry together.  And tonight we talked about doing a family trip together which makes me just too excited for words.

I'm praying that it can become a reality.  It would be the most hectic and fun and awesome thing we could do.  Four adults and 6 kids, 4 of whom are super high energy...the train ride might be the end of us all.  Well, at least we'd be happy.

So stayed tuned to see if we end up doing this crazy trip with our best friends.