[so I leave for Orange County tomorrow and then DC on Monday, and while a blog is in the works about what I am feeling pre-leaving my bed for 11 months, I wanted to share first with you all about someone REALLY important to me]
Picture this: two blond little girls in preschool together. playing, ordering boys around. [well A boy around]
And for the most part those two little girls probably wouldn't stay friends.
But in mine and Jess's case?
We did.
Those two blond preschool girls are now friends. 23 years strong. We've gone through a lot together. We were one grade apart throughout school. Didn't run in the same crowds at all. But on the weekends, through the summer, at ballet class, it was us together all the way. Laying on trampolines with the sprinkler running underneath it, planning our ornate mickey mouse shaped pools with secret tunnels, freaking ourselves out up in her space ship treehouse because of the tall grass below.
We traveled by train together by ourselves. I took trips to Pismo with her fam, to the snow as well.
We DIDN'T dial 911 on purpose. IT WAS THE DOG. [I stand by that]
And of course we did what any friends did- checked to see what either family was having for dinner before we decided where we were going to eat.
As we grew up and graduated high school and I moved away; we didn't grow apart. We grew closer. We walked through dark seasons together, we laughed at the hilarity of the drama in our little town.
She got married to her longtime sweetheart- and I was her Maid of Honor.
Then she had two perfect twin girls and she tearfully asked me to be their Nina. [and remember that one boy we picked on in preschool? yah he's the Nino]
And the last two months God granted us with a super special time to get to hang out constantly. She's been out of work and goes back this weekend. Just as I am leaving.
So this is for you Jessica Rae.
I am so blessed by you. By your joy, by the way you are so eloquently a mom.
By how stinkin grown-up you are!
I am blessed by being able to be gone for months and come back and know that even
though everything around us has changed?
Our friendship won't.
I'm thankful that I can tell you anything.
That you've supported me in all my galabanting ways. [and that you've spurred on my starbucks addiction while I've been home]
I really can't put into words how much you mean to me.
I'm been so blessed for this time we've had and will be so excited to come back in December, curl up with a starbucks and share stories with each other.
I love you so utterly much sister.
<3
Megs
