Tribute to Friends

I had a GREAT weekend last weekend as I got to see one of my long time best Friends-dare we let people know for almost 12 years!!!! OH MY YIKES!!! )This is a phrase I have been using-lately something I think fits many circumstances and I don't care if my 3.5 year old were to repeat it.

Anyway, we met the fall of 1999 in on our floor, but the friendship began in Gwinn Commons (SPUs fancy cafeteria)-and where we each had a plate of of acid fruit...both of us couldn't get over how awful and funny it was (since Gwinn was new and all the rage). From that point we quickly became friends-turning her triple into a quad (since she lived with to great gals and I lived with psychos). I am not kidding here people-1 of my roommates had a paper route that rang our phone EVERY morning at 3 am-in college-freshman year mind you...now I was not out doing illegal or inappropriate things, but I certainly was not going to bed at a decent hour in my first year of figuring out life on my own. And if that wasn't enough it turned out that my 2nd roommate (thank you ridiculous guys/ratio at SPU for the TRIPLE) had a stealing problem....and stole tons of stuff from me and the other crazy roommate.

But anyway that is not the point....back to my best pal Jenny. It was sooo very good to see her. She has been and will forever be someone I can just pick up with wherever we leave off. We can talk for hours but don't feel like we have to. She is where Claire gets her beautiful middle name, Rachel, and will forever be my kiddos "aunt."

Which brings me to my tribute...We have another amazing friend Kate, who grew up with "fake" cousins, and when we all found this out we thought it was soo funny that people she called cousins, she wasn't really related to. As I have kids, and as I have been blessed with some amazing friends from college, and throughout my life, I have realized this is not crazy at all...these women are the sister's I would choose. So I find comfort in knowing that someday Blake and Claire will refer to Paige (and Rubie, Oliver, Caedmon, and Kasen...as well as others and those that are still to come) as their cousins, and their friends will find out they are not really related...who cares. It is like someone once said "Friends are the Family we choose."

Krista, Me and Kate-celebrating Krista's 30th