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Willa: All that effort to make a dozen wreaths? U R Cray Cray

Me: It’s Christmas tradition

Willa: Tommy is a terror today

Me: He’s two Hang in there sista

Willa: Easier said than done AuntieI se point A man, a baby, and a house that is a home

Me: I’ll come babysit

Willa: Thx, but don’t you have your ugly Xet drunk with your fifty closest friendsI smirk My sister loves to tease me about my social calendar But what can I say? I’ve always been the sorta person who loves to stay busy

Me: I’d cancel all of it to be with Tommy You know that

Willa: I know I’ a brat Can’t help but be a teensy bit jealous of your life is all

Me: I love you, sister Nothing to be jelly of

Willa: xoxo Stay safeI pocket h I told Willa that she has nothing to be jealous of I know it’s not the truth

There are a ton of things I love about my life My home business has totally taken off I have an adorable little one-bedroom house on the cutest street in town

There’s always soe here and have raduated I attend a book club and a knitting group -- weekly events where et drunk on boxed wine

And I always have plans on Friday nights And Saturday nights The girls and I go out dancing,the city offers

I figure living life in the fast lane won’t last forever… but so long as it does, I’m all in

Body shots in Mexico instead of Valentine’s day at home? Check

Renting a party bus for my friends’ birthdays? Check

Hosting bridal showers and baby shohen said friends get hitched and knocked-up? Check

I look out at the snow-coveredis so quiet Still

For a moment, I can’t help but wish my life were more like this Like my sister’s, even

Sure, Willa would love to have hts out, but she has To

And I tellI need too

Even if the truth is I’ll be alone on Christ

Which is why I ahbors I won’t feel the pang of loneliness quite so sharply if I’hborhood

I start hiking into the trees, wanting to find the perfect branches to make wreaths This has beco I deliver thehbors

As I step over a fallen branch and inhale the pine and cedar scent, the air crisp and cold, I s tiny snowflakes cover my coat