old time friends

Pin It Now! there is just something about friends that you've known for a long time.
friends who you can interrupt and go off on a tangent with and talk about a million things and nothing all at once.
i am so lucky to have so many great good "gold" friends in my life.
friends who've known me since i was a girl and vice versa.
sometimes i find this whole adult world a bit lonely - don't get me wrong...i'm happily married and love the kids, loved my job when i was there....but there is just something i miss about being younger.  i think it's the constant socialization. my girlfriends were my total lifeline.  we were just always together.  skipping classes, going shopping, talking on the phone the entire evening, watching shows together while talking on the phone.  today's world is so "connected" and for that i'm thankful (i love that i can stay up to date with so many of my girlfriends that live abroade becuase of social media but there really is something to be said for a good old fashioned visit)
i am lucky enough to be one of those people that loved high school.  every single minute.  looking back i think we were exactly the crowd that you'd want your own kids to be in...."good girls" who got into a little bit of trouble but just the right amount, not the girls that were too popular that they did things that left them stuck because of bad decisions but just popular enough to be able to enjoy every minute.
i already worry about peer groups for my own kids...that cruel maze of social ranks that ends up making so many kids just hate their high school experience.  i hope my kids have the same type of experience i had growing up - and i think really all i can do is work with them to be kind and then when the time comes let them find their own way with some gentle help from the sidelines.
i had a visit with one  of my oldest and truest friends today.  she really is a keeper - such a sweet soul and goodness knows we've been through it all together....i just love her for it.
i still cannot believe we have kiddos of our own (and multiple at that), was so great to see meag and hazel today.....i mean look at these two?  melts my heart how adorbs they are.  seeing meag is a reminder of those "good old days" when life was really so much simpler.  we had no responsibilities so could spend the whole day together just being young and silly.

The cutest little couple! 

so thankful for a great visit today
xoxo