Danielle getting ready for Melissa wedding
Christi getting ready for Melissa wedding
Chelsea helping Melissa with her hair on wedding day
Melissa and Robin on Robin wedding (wow little to much cleavage there)Tonight I had dinner with my adopted daughter Chelsea she was Melissa best friend since second or third grade. I am so thankful that Melissa was able to meet and become such a good friends with a young Christian girl at the time then they grew up together and remained friend up until she passed away. Chelsea has had a rough year as well not only did she lose a best friend but also not a month later she lost her cousin in a drowning accident I think he was their age or a little older and he and Chelsea were very close. She also had a great thing happen to her this year as she got engaged to a wonderful young man that I had the pleasure of taking care of when he was little and went to the child care center where I worked. Melissa introduced them however when her and Chelsea were little they gave that poor boy all kinds of trouble while at the center. Who would have guess they would grow up and get married I am so happy for both of them.
Melissa made friends with a young girl name Robin after we moved to Kingwood and she invited us to Kingwood First Baptist Church which God knew then that we would need the church later. There she meet Danielle and Christi and they all became very close going to Church, Sunday School and mission trips together with the best youth minister ever in Melissa eyes John Burris. He is amazing as he baptized, married and then sadly had to perform her funeral. I am telling you all this because not only do I and my family still need lots of prayers but so does her friends she made while here on earth with us for 21 years and 1 month. I am so thankful that these young ladies have kept in touch with me and shared memories with me and I hope they know that I love them all to the moon and back and will be here if they ever need me.
Thanks for sharing this...we all loved melissa so much! I feel so lucky to have all these girls as old friends and i know melissa did too
ReplyDeleteI agree with Christy. Melissa was loved by all of us, even when we did not get along from being too close, I loved her. I don't know why, but when I use to have sleep overs with Melissa, she would always want me to squeeze her hands as tight as possible. It was relaxing or something to her I suppose. I also remember going to the pool and swimming/talking all day until it was dark out. It's hard sometimes, because I met a girl in my nursing class. She kind of looks like Melissa, talks and acts like Melissa at times. It's kind of comforting though because it's almost as if she is here again...but then reality sets in and I know she's not. I constantly ask myself why I didn't go see her when I was in Kingwood. I know you can't go back in time, but I wish we could.
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