Whenever I look at this photograph I will always smile. Always. Then closely following by a wave of sadness that these faces I no longer see at the lady chairs on a regular (hardly ever) basis. But, the smile will always triumph over the sad. You see, when one lives in Gardner Dorm one lives with about 350 of their “closest friends”—always a party and if your “bored” you aren’t looking hard enough for some fun ;). Well this photo was taken in the wee hours of Saturday (techinically Friday sense we hadn’t slept). I had been sitting at the chairs and no one had really stopped by, but I didn’t worry because I knew they were all out having fun- I sit there on watch to make sure they all come back, but I got tired so I went to my room to lay down. If you know my sleeping patterns, when I sleep I SLEEP. I was genuinely tired so I in all plans and purposes was going to bed. Not 30 minutes later I heard loud noises.
I thought to myself: “Good grief. I cant get ANY sleep here even if I wanted too. What the heck is going on out there!!”
When I stepped outside I was greeted by these beautiful regular faces—they began to clap and cheer saying “we knew you would come out if you heard us mama!!!”
And we had a lady chair party- right then and there. At 2 AM in the morning.
I. Love. Those. Girls.
I may not remember the exact conversation, I may not remember all the laughs that we had (but we definitely did), but I do remember when I finally laid my head on that pillow, I counted my blessings- each of those precious young women of the faith and how much they mean to me.
