thanksgiving was last week. matt and i always go to kentucky for this holiday to spend it with his family. so we loaded up wednesday morning and headed for lexington! matt and his brother were going to see the uk basketball game wednesday night which meant that i planned to spend the whole evening and night with my best friends! first stop was the moore's house, none of them had met evan yet. debbie had made us (allison, lauren, and me) some yummy soup to eat and of course, there is always good bread and dessert at the moore's (because they're all super skinny and can eat it!). it was so nice to be back in their home- it had been a year! but they couldn't keep evan all for themselves so we moved on to the wemyss' home. here we all 4 were reunited- it was so great. we just sat on the wemyss couch and tried to pick a name for lauren's baby-on-the-way. we definitely had a lot of fun with that. it was WAY too short of time, but great none the less.
my best friends since 1999! (ha, that sounds ridiculously long ago...)
so the third, and final, stop for the night was of course the shaw's. sue had made some yummy cookies we all partook of and then evan and i spent the night there. it really was just like old times, hanging out on the shaw's couch, eating cookies, and just being together.
all three of the homes of these beautiful girls and like my home away from home. i didn't grow up near cousins or aunts and uncles but to me, these girls and their families are my extended family. i feel completely comfortable when i'm in their homes and/or with their families, because i feel like, at least in spirit, these homes and families are mine too. i remember when i was in middle school (which is when i met all of them), i said to my family that we would be best friends forever (of course, middle school girls created the phrase "bffs"). i also remember my uncle and my mom and telling my how hard it is to really stay close to friends from your childhood (why were the trying to squander my 11 year old dreams!), but i knew then we would prove them wrong and look at us now, all grown up and on our 13th year of friendship. i could never replace these girls because we have something that's can't be replaced, deep rooted, true love for each other. it has certainly been tried and tested over the years, we've endured fights, boys, band, middle school, high school, hundreds of miles of distance, college, jobs, marriages, a baby (and soon to be another), tears, laughs, and everything in between but through it all, and some may say against all odds, we have remained the bbhc. i really hope that we can make this picture possible more than just twice a year. i love you all!
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