Today's post is dedicated to my friend. I have posted a picture today with actual people in it but since it is over 20 years old and taken by an old Kodak 110 camera and in lousy light, you really can't tell much. This young lady and I were on the weekend trip of our young life. Its the kind of trip you would never in a million years allow your 17 year old to do in today's world. We were 8 hours from home at a FBLA conference with one other younger girl (I think she was 15) with no chaperone. Our teacher sponsor could not go so she put the three of us with another teacher at a nearby school. However, that teacher had her hands full with a pretty good sized group and since our school had registered late, we go put in a different hotel from the one the conference was located about a mile away. It is really hard to chaperone 3 young ladies when you are in another hotel. We were on our own for the entire weekend. No one to tell us when to go to bed or to even make sure we showed up to the conference. We had a blast. The reason I bring this up this morning is that I have kind of lost touch with this friend over the last few years. She moved "away", this is silly since it is only about 25 mins but it seemed like a world away when I was single and she was married with two kids. We have recently reconnected and it has been wonderful, "chatting" with her via email. We are still in different stages of our journey with our kids but it is almost like those 20 years have never past. She was my best friend in highschool and we did almost everything together. We entered adulthood together and did the "party/club" scene together too. She got married and started a new journey with a great guy and I was still single so there came a fork in the road but this week, that road reconnected and it has been fun catching up. I have some wonderful "peeps" now too but there is just something about those connections made when you were a teenager and young adult that really are dear to your heart. So this post is dedicated to my friend "Legs", LYLAS GIRL!!! (that's 80's slang kids, see there, we started IM's back in the day but it was called "passing notes" back then. Anyway it means Love Ya Like a Sis)
Friday, December 14, 2007
Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold
Today's post is dedicated to my friend. I have posted a picture today with actual people in it but since it is over 20 years old and taken by an old Kodak 110 camera and in lousy light, you really can't tell much. This young lady and I were on the weekend trip of our young life. Its the kind of trip you would never in a million years allow your 17 year old to do in today's world. We were 8 hours from home at a FBLA conference with one other younger girl (I think she was 15) with no chaperone. Our teacher sponsor could not go so she put the three of us with another teacher at a nearby school. However, that teacher had her hands full with a pretty good sized group and since our school had registered late, we go put in a different hotel from the one the conference was located about a mile away. It is really hard to chaperone 3 young ladies when you are in another hotel. We were on our own for the entire weekend. No one to tell us when to go to bed or to even make sure we showed up to the conference. We had a blast. The reason I bring this up this morning is that I have kind of lost touch with this friend over the last few years. She moved "away", this is silly since it is only about 25 mins but it seemed like a world away when I was single and she was married with two kids. We have recently reconnected and it has been wonderful, "chatting" with her via email. We are still in different stages of our journey with our kids but it is almost like those 20 years have never past. She was my best friend in highschool and we did almost everything together. We entered adulthood together and did the "party/club" scene together too. She got married and started a new journey with a great guy and I was still single so there came a fork in the road but this week, that road reconnected and it has been fun catching up. I have some wonderful "peeps" now too but there is just something about those connections made when you were a teenager and young adult that really are dear to your heart. So this post is dedicated to my friend "Legs", LYLAS GIRL!!! (that's 80's slang kids, see there, we started IM's back in the day but it was called "passing notes" back then. Anyway it means Love Ya Like a Sis)
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3 comments:
who is that?
You made me cry! I have that picture somewhere too! You are truly dear to my heart and always have been. So glad we're catching up!!
LEGS
Who is that brunette in the blue dress??
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