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18 Years Later…

I always knew I did a good job of choosing friends! 🙂

Seriously, though, do you want to know what I think is absolutely heart-warming?

Absolutely heart-warming is seeing a friend after 18 years and not missing a beat. It’s watching my friend parent her 3 little boys being boys, knowing that she’s acting just as she would if I weren’t there. It’s listening to the story of her last 18 years and loving the authenticity, the this-is-perfectly-her-life depth of it. It’s appreciating that even though we’ve grown and matured, and sure, we’ve aged, we can still be ourselves. No jewelry, no fancy cars, no bragging rights necessary. Just us.

That, my friends, is more than heart-warming. It’s life-affirming, friendship-perpetuating, and downright awesome.

Happy Friday. Now get on out there and have some fun with your friends!

Driving East

Today:

  • Up at 5AM
  • Kids up at 5:40
  • 2 kids in car at 5:45
  • Bathroom break for the other
  • 6:00 on the road
  • 6:04 – accidently went north; exit, turn around, go south
  • 7:00 kids’ bathroom break
  • 8:20 seriously! another bathroom break, so McDonald’s too
  • 5 more bathroom breaks; 1 diet pepsi stop; 1 Starbucks stop
  • 13 hours later: sit down to dinner with my mom

Tomorrow will be easier!