Bittersweet Day

(Sorry, I wrote this post yesterday and forgot to publish it!)

     Happy Monday! Today was definitely bittersweet, the sweet part being that my brother turned 16 today, and the bitter part being that today is the anniversary of my best friend's father's death.

     I'll start off with the sweet bit. My mom decided to go with "April Fool's pranks" as the theme for Thad's birthday. He woke up to a very loud alarm and had crepe paper all across his doorway. He went to the bathroom, where the floor was covered in balloons which contained money in them, and when he lifted the toilet lid, a screamer went off (it made the scariest noise and almost put me under cardiac arrest), and she filled his locker with candy. Also, when he tried to blow out the candles on his birthday cupcakes, he found that the candles refused to blow out! It was so funny! We went to Oklahoma Joe's (famous KC barbeque) and then had the most delicious cupcakes ever.

     Next, the bitter part was a bit worse than I thought it would be. The day started off fine, but I found that once I was actually in class, my thoughts were very much distracted by the memories of this day three years ago. I won't go into details, but I saw horrible things that day, which I've never been able to get out of my head and I still think about it quite a lot. It put me in a rather bad mood, but when I got home I felt much better. I still miss you, Reed.

Carpe Diem,
Brooke