Overmashed Potatoes, friends who become strangers and mosquitoes the size of texas

Wow, how time is flying! I just spent the past couple days at my grandparents'...again. Wed night, all my relatives had to go to the hospital for my aunt, so I ate at my aunt's house with three of my cousins. It was one of the most awkward dinners I've ever experienced. My two boy cousins are 16 and 18. Neither one said a word, typical of teenage boys I guess. For dinner we had meatloaf, mashed potatoes and green beans. The meatloaf was burnt on the outside and mushy on the inside and the mashed potatoes were overmashed. It was funny, cuz earlier I watched an episode of Gilmore Girls where rory was making dinner and her mom, Lorelai, wanted to help. Rory warned her not to mash the potatoes too much cuz then they would be overmashed and more like potato soup. So when I was eating dinner that was all I could think of, overmashed potatoes. But earlier today, I thought to myself, ya know, I really shouldn't complain about having to eat disgusting food cuz I'm sure starving ethopian children would have no problem eating it. My aunt came home from the hospital today! She has two lumps on her liver but they're both benign, meaning they're not cancerous. But the docs still want to keep an eye on them cuz they could become malignant. She needs a lot of rest but she's doing much better than she was. God is AMAZING!! Tonight, when I came home, one of our neighbors was here and she has a granddaughter the same age as my younger sister, Krystal, 18. Steph used to come to our house ALL the time when we were younger and I considered her one of my best friends. Tonight was the first time I had seen her in a super long time, like over a year. We have grown apart so much, we had almost nothing to talk about. Steph, earlier in the year, had been at a party and gotten drunk and then she was fighting with a police officer, that's how different we are. It's kind of sad but I was watching Joel Osteen last night and he was talking about how we let some people become crutches and then when it's time for them to leave our lives, we try to hold on to them, when in reality, we need to let them go so they don't continue hindering us from reaching our full potential. Maybe that's why we've grown apart, who knows? Anyway, I hate bugs, especially huge ones, like the ones that show up at night around our front porch. My dad just pointed out this huge mosquito, like the body was an inch long, and the wings half an inch long. Ugh! creepy! But even though I hate bugs, I just can never bring myself to kill them. I don't know why, I just can't. Oh!! Guess what guys??!! I've been reading my Bible again!! Actually, I've only read it for the past two days but I'm excited and when I start reading it, I have a hard time stopping. I'm halfway through Genesis and I read James. Idk why, I'm just super excited about reading the Bible!! Oh wait, it's cuz God is AWESOME :) I start my official summer job on June 7th and I'm kinda excited and kinda not. I'm not excited cuz almost all my summer will be devoted to camp. Hardly any free time at all. Oh well. So my mom was raised Roman Catholic and she sort of let it go throughout the years, but lately, it makes me happy to see her putting her faith in God again, she says her "rosary" every day, I think that's their way of keeping track of their prayers. I'm thinking about giving her The Shack and For Women Only to read. I've also been thinking about maybe finding a local Church and having just the two of us go one Sunday. I'm just really nervous about it, cuz I know she has a very opinionated view on Christians, but lately she's been trying really hard to understand it better. Which makes me happy, on the other hand, my dad wants nothing to do with it :( So I shall continue praying for them both. Enough rambling I guess, I know you guys probably get sick of it ;-) Adios amigos!