Don't Count The Miles, Count The I Love You's-I Miss My Best Friends

Thanksgiving is next week and that means I get to see my family over break.  Sadly, I don't get to go home.  But I do get to see my parents and sister, my whole immediate family actually except for John and Kristin and their 3 little girls Lexi, Kaytlin, and Addie.  I'm really missing that family, especially those little kiddos.  They always wanted to spend time with me and read books, watch movies, come play in my room.  I think I took them or granted a little too much.  Okay, a lot too much.  I really miss my nieces.  I get to be with Maddie here, but I wish I could be with all of them.
I miss some other people quite a bit too.  I miss Zoe Smith, one of my very best friends.  She's a sophomore in high school this year and we became friends through cheer and soccer her freshman, my senior, year and became inseparable   We went to McDonald's all the time after soccer practice and we worked together this summer.  And we had fun movie nights too with Austin and Logan.  We even share the same birthday and I miss her like crazy.  I miss Logan Collins too.  Logan is my other very best friend.  We talk on the phone every day and  I miss him a lot, and his family.  I spent a majority of my summer with them and they made me feel like family.  Logan and I dated this summer, and broke up the day I came to college.  On that same day I said goodbye to my dog Chester forever.  Talk about one crappy day.  I cried a lot, in the car after saying bye to Chester, at the ferry saying bye to Logan when we broke up, on the ferry ride thinking about it, and even on the plane rides.Brianna McLaughlin has been my best friend since 7th grade back when we used to have competitions to see who could solve the math problem faster in Mr. Sullivan's class.  We had a lot in common and we've had our ups and our downs but she'll always be like a sister to me.  She's in Anchorage for college right now, on the cheer squad too!  She'll be in Ketchikan for part of break but then she is going to Iowa to visit her mom.  So we have a lot of catching up to do in a short amount of time.  I miss other people too, but I am so excited to see Logan and Zoe and Brianna when I go home December 15th.  I'll be there for 3 weeks and I'm going to make every second count.