The Rodgers Peeps : My Friends

Life is so funny! One minute you're wishing for the weekend and the next minute you're begging for a rewind button.

This weekend happened and I found myself giggling like a school girl thinking about some of the greatest moments. It all started when a friend shot me a text with an old skool picture. The picture was of C and I when we were 18 years old. That's a lot of years and pounds ago. . .

I started to think about the last 12 years of our lives and gratitude filled my heart. We are so humbled by the friends we've made along this journey. Life is so crazy and it's not always fun, but along the road you meet these people who stand beside you through the storms of life and the good times.

If you know me, you know I never meet a stranger. I can walk into a store and walk out with two new friends. I love to talk and I love to meet new people. I am the only person who can find an OU fan in the state of Tennessee. It's true, I know more about a person in 5 minutes than most people. I can read people well, it's a gift!

Am I always a good friend? Not a chance. I have the best intentions, but my mouth uses the wrong words to express my thoughts. I think it's the whole thinking slow and talking fast that gets Mercedes in trouble. What I do hope my friends can say, is that I sincerely value them. I take pride in knowing all types of people. I have friends who are fitness fanatics, I have couch potato friends, I have the smarty pants friends, the ones who can make the best casseroles, the ones who can't boil an egg and the ones who host the best parties and the list goes on . . .

Today I'm highlighting some great people, my friends!

If you're my friend, you'll laugh at this picture.
My sense of humor is so dumb.

Neighbor Friends

First, C and I always know our neighbors. Some of our greatest moments happened in our front yard on a summer night, with our neighbors. I can still remember laying on the front yard, watching shooting stars or the time I stuffed a pillow in my pants because I wanted to learn how to roller blade, how about the moments when our friend's car flooded because of heavy rainfall & our neighbor comes to the rescue. The list of memories is long and we are truly blessed in that we've always had great neighbors!

Church Pals

I get that a lot of people don't like church or think they don't have time to go to church. I would lie if I said every Sunday morning was easy. It's actually quite the opposite. Sunday morning in the Rodgers house usually involves a mean 10 month old, burnt cinnamon rolls, C taking WAY too long & a mad Mercedes. If you get past all the crazy pieces of the morning, you make it to church & all the goodness starts to flow. We are so grateful for our church friends. I remember the late night chats, the endless McAlister's lunches or how about the crazy camps? A church is more than a building, the people are the church. All the laughs and jokes aside, my greatest privilege is serving with these friends.

Family Peeps

These are the friends who have no choice, but to tolerate you. I won't lie, half the time I want to beat them, the other half of the time they want to beat me. The love/hate relationship provides for some great humor and usually always involves an embarrassing story. . .

Life is so much sweeter with cool family members who call you when their car overheats and you pull up to see them kicking their tire or how about the time you ask them to dog sit and they almost lose your dog? Family friends make for some of the greatest friends!

Wild Bunch

Last, but not least you meet people at work, through other friends or strangers who turn into friends. What I love the most about this bunch is that they don't know you, so you get to start fresh with them. Every story you share with them is just as funny as the first time, because everything is new! Sometimes life takes you on a different road, so while you're among this bunch, you enjoy the ride. Who cares if this bunch watches YouTube videos at your house until 2 am, Riff Raff is hilarious or the time you set up a poker night and you realize you hate poker ...