Home...Not Alone...

Family Home Evening tonight. We all wore PJs (well, most of us) watched Home Alone, ate Mallo Magic popcorn, and drank fabulous hot chocolate with candy canes. Yum! I love that movie. SO funny.

Kevin: (grimacing at a photograph of a girl with a psychotic look on her face) Buzz! Your girlfriend! Woof!

Hands down, best line.

Thanksgiving Break. Lot of fun. Spent time with the fam. Killed my mom at Boggle. Which was monumental. She never loses. Ever. Went with Mikey to see Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. So inappropriate, but so laugh-inducing. Big family party. Then frozen yogurt at Red Mango with Mikey and Angela. Then the movie Australia. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. The movie that NEVER ENDED! Actually, it ended about ten different times.....and then kept going....and going....and going....and going. First it was about horses and cattle...and then it was a romance....and then there was dancing...kissing....scandalous hanky panky...then more cattle...kissing...and then it was a war movie....bombing....kissing...bad guy gets impaled to death...more kissing...the end...finally.

P.S. It was horrible. Just in case you couldn't tell.

Amazingly exciting story this week. Dad came to pick me up for Thanksgiving and we went out for lunch because I hadn't eaten for two meals because I ran out of food. We were just catching up on news, and he mentioned that my mom got in touch with the woman that had taught her the gospel in Taiwan. I didn't take much notice but then my dad was like, "By the way, do you know any Sheanshangs?" I thought that was a weird question, but I said, "Yeah! Katy and Emily live in the apartments right next to mine. Katy's one of my favorite people ever!" Dad told me that Katy's mom was my mom's missionary. I immediately texted Katy, who told her mom, who freaked out and told everyone she knew. Haha.

But that's not even the most amazing part. A few years ago, I was looking through some old photo albums. I was looking at some pictures from when I was about seven. There was my mom, my brothers and I, some unfamiliar lady and her kids. I asked my mom who the lady was and Mom told me that it was her missionary. I immediately forgot about that until the moment my dad told me the craziness. Suddenly, everything started to fall into place and make sense...missionary...us kids...unfamiliar kids....those kids had to have been Katy and her siblings... Yeah. Found the picture this weekend. Brought it up and Katy, Emily, and I were laughing like maniacs over them. It's so nuts to find out that our moms were so closely connected and that we didn't know it, even after being friends for over a year. And then to find out we actually knew each other when we were kids. It's just loco.

But so cool. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for Katy's mom. Definitely something to be grateful for this Christmas. :)