My Friend Jenna

For almost 4 months, once a week or so I would hear from Jenna "You might want to update your blog" or "I was looking at blogs last night and yours is still the same". I would always laugh and say "yeah, I need to do that" but never did. I wish I had just done it. I really enjoyed reading Jenna's blog and will try now more than ever to give updates often.

I miss Jenna and it's hard to believe that she's gone. She was always a phone call or an e-mail away. When we weren't together that is. Everywhere that I've been since moving to Tennessee, I've been with Jenna and it will be hard to re-visit each place without her.

Before moving here, I had pretty much become a home body and when I met Jenna, that changed. She didn't sit still for long and if you were going to hang with her, you'd better get used to moving.

I remember not long after we met, she would tell me of the friends she had already talked to on a particular day and one she had talked to several times, I was surprised and wondered what in the world you could talk to someone about so many times a day.

Before long I called Jenna on the way to or from taking the kids to school, at lunch time, on the way to or from picking up the kids, while trying to figure out what to fix for dinner, and any time anything funny or of interest came to mind and she did the same. She would call me to tell me that the video I'd been wanting to see was now on CMT or to tell me something funny the kids had done or just to share her day.

We were shopping together when I got the call from my sister that my Dad was probably not going to make it through the night. I had driven us there in my van and she just immediately took care of me, she drove us to get the kids something to eat and back to my house and tried to comfort me and listened to me cry.

Well I'm crying again and this time the tears are for Jenna. She has left for a better place with her sweet baby Will and I'm wondering what I'll do without her. I know that I'm hugging my kids tighter and all who are close to me. You really never do know when the day will be your last and I'm trying to do like she did and live life to the fullest.

Prayers to all of us who knew and loved her.

Thank you Jenna for the time we shared. It was almost 5 years but it was a lifetime.

I love you girl!

Barbara