Friends

Having a kid really makes you focus on the important things in life.  What I want for Jax is simple, to be healthy and happy.  A part of that wish is that I want Jax to have friends.  Not just acquaintances or passing friends, but life long friends:  friends that you do everything with when you are little, that you miss terribly when they move away, and friends that no matter where they are or how long it has been since you have seen them, you can reunite with and enjoy their company like no time has passed at all.  I had these friends, the Brandon girls.  Growing up my best friend was Katie and I was friends with her older sisters Keely and Emily as well.

Here at the four of us at a parade.  Katie is on the far left and I am the one the middle with the pink hair bow.

So many of my childhood memories involved Katie and her sisters.  When they moved to France in fourth grade we even went to visit them.   

Katie and I during our visit in France showing off our new dolls.

    Katie is hard to keep up with these days as she has lived all over the country and most recently Africa.  It was a real treat then when I went to my parents church two weeks ago and she was in town visiting as well.  It was so great catching up with her and getting to see her two little boys and introduce her to Jax as well. 

 

We have traded in those girl dolls for a handful of boys and I love it.  While we may not live close, I will always enjoy the time I do have catching up with her.  I can't wait to watch our little ones grow up and hopefully make great friends of their own.