Laurel

Today marks six years since Laurel has been gone and I still can't believe that she is gone. 

Laurel in GA taking photos

Laurel and I were the oddest roommate/friends ever. We were literally complete opposites!

 It still makes me laugh to remember about how we ended up as roommates...

Laurel was waiting for a room to open up, since she had not decided to come to Taylor until the last minute (oh Laurel!) and I had called Taylor for a roommate reassignment. While on the phone with the counselor from Taylor they were telling me all about the different girls I could be roommates with and they were all super sporty. Now I have nothing against sporty girls but I am soo not sporty. Then suddenly they starting telling me about this girl who lives in Chicago and is an art major. It was the first girl they talked about that did not include working out as her favorite hobby! I instantly said I'll take her! Who knew that I would end up with the most amazing roommate and friend all because of my dislike for sports and working out! 

Freshman Year 

Today I have been thinking about Laurel a lot. Remembering all of the fun times we had together for the three short years we were roommates. It makes me laugh to remember things like her talking on the phone every night  to Nate using her headset as she walked around the room and whipped out some amazing art project the night before it was due. Or the way that she would wait to cash her work checks until she had like five checks and then she would have a ridiculous amount of money in our dorm room! Or her binder of ideas, (she was a pinner before pinterest)! Or how neither one of us could go to sleep until the other one was at the very least in the suite if not in the room, Or how she was always reading magazine articles and trying out  all of the healthy and beauty ideas, (including an acid face peel that left her scabby for like a week)!  

After she finally cashed her checks

Today, in addition to all of the amazing memories, (of which they're too many to write about), I have also been consumed with lots of questions. (Not about why she is gone, the Lord and I have already been through those questions.)  But rather questions like...

What would Laurel be like today? 

Would she be married to Nate? Where would they be living? 

What kind of art would she be doing? Where would she have traveled to take pictures?

 Would she be a mom? What would her kids look like?

 Would we still be as close as we were in College? How would our friendship have changed and evolved as our lives changed?

What would she say about me living in CA? Or being married to Mark? 

Today I may have a lot of questions but One thing I know  today and always is that those questions will never be able to take away from all my amazing  memories of Laurel. I will forever be grateful to the Lord for allowing me to have the 3 years I had with her. And I look forward to the day that I will once again see her in Heaven.  

Roommate Love

We hid this puppy in our room!