Stole away for a few hours yesterday to meet up with some friends who were in town for the briefest of moments. R was very pregnant and living on my street when the tornado ate up our town; she and I spent a lot of time together in those weeks after. A few months later, she moved to a neighboring state to join her husband and now I only get to see the baby every once in awhile. But they do bring her back to visit, because they know how much we love her, and them, and her:
