Today a memory from time's past was sent to me. A memory that made me smile and puddle up at the same time. A memory that seems like yesterday yet was almost 6 years ago. A memory that was once just "cute" but today was dear, more meaningful and full of sentimental value. A memory that shows how quickly time if flying by and a memory that clearly shows how, in the blink of an eye 6 years has zoomed by. Today, I was simply sent a picture and my mind hasn't stopped thinking about it since.
While the exact day of this picture or reason for this picture is fuzzy, the moment in time when these three little loves were together is very vivid!
To best understand this post, I must travel back to the beginning. (Because sooner or later, there will come a day when I will be old and shriveled and my children will be reading these blog books and need to understand why Lucy and I are sharing a nursing home room together!)
Way back in the days of yore, two girls were hired to teach 3rd grade. They cleverly positioned their desk so they could see each other and have conversations without actually having to walk across the hall. They told white lies to young school children and convinced them that they were sisters. They had mornings of tears, mornings of venting and mornings of therapy together in a school building that was quiet and empty! Over a simple employment decision, an immediate and treasured friendship began.
The friendship was one filled with giggles, inside jokes and moments of silliness. But sadly, there were often moments where the friendship had tears, ugly tears, tears that only someone who can handle seeing your ugly cry gets to see. There were long phone calls made from bathtubs to be toughened up and get life back together, there were cards secretly delivered to serve as pick me ups and there were "personal days" taken to spend a day watching television on mattresses in the floor of a den.
Highs and Lows, Ups and Downs, Goods and Bads... it all equaled the same thing...True.
One of my biggest cheerleaders was anxiously awaiting as I welcomed my two precious blessings into this world! And quickly made her way to the NICU to love on my babies!
(Yikes I was a bit "puffy" wasn't I!!)
Even though it was way before this that our friendship started, this moment is where a new branch of our friendship grew. Now, by the grace of God, our fun moments and laughs were going to be shared not only on a friend level but a mommy level too.
And in no time... that happened.
Automatically, it was special to see our babies together. It was precious and considering the cards both of our lives had been dealt, it was dear to our hearts to see our little ones loving life and happy.
And just when we thought all the fun of a newborn was over... the Good Lord decided our friendship needed a wee tiny bit more pregnancy in it!!
These days, we are just two ol' mommas who happen to think being hired in an elementary school together 6 years ago was clearly divine intervention!
These days we still talk all day except with the current advances in technology, it isn't through classroom doorways but through texts and silly pictures. We still gab on the phone, except now we aren't relaxing in tubs, we are carting kids to soccer, art or ballet. These days we still have therapy sessions, venting sessions and cry it out sessions.
Yes, these days we have all this and much more!
Now,we have the loves of our lives as besties too! We have Friday family nights with kids running everywhere and on occasion driving us nuts. We have fire pits to sit around and let the jokes roll! We have the loves of our lives on group texts making fun of us. We have little kids that adore big kids and SOON we will have a joint family golf cart! Clearly a sign of family friendship!!
(To all who read this... let it be known, these two are 100 times worse than us girls are!! They will deny this, it is not true...we have plenty to prove this statement with!)
Thanks to a simple computer issue today, I was sent 2 precious pictures that reminded me of just how much 2 friends can go through in only a short amount of years.
To my person, Here's to all the deep thoughts on life, the moments of pure insanity you coax me through, the airhead moments and moments where we misread restaurant signs! Here's to the boys that make us smile and their "not as bad as we are" friendship. Here's to the woes of motherhood we have endured and those many more yet to come! Here's to a friendship true and pure and dear. May we never forget what Meredith and Christina have taught us...
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