I Just Love Good Memories!

Anyone who knows me remotely, knows that I'm probably at the top of most of their lists when it comes to who is the most sentimental! Especially Jeremy....poor thing had never known the likes until he married me! It took some getting used to, but we're getting there!! LOL!!

Anyway, usually around PFYC time, I feel a little bit of my sentimental side grab ahold of me and jolt me to my core. It's especially easy to allow that to happen when someone bangs on your hotel door at the most in-opportune time...just to open it up to old friends and the kid you knew as a silly wide-eyed 2 year old standing before you all grown up and is, all of a sudden, one of the beautiful teenagers you ever did see. It's all a bit overwhelming. ...

Then you run into kids you used to babysit and now he and his little family are posing to take pictures with your own kid.........WOW~ am I really that old?!?! I guess so.....seems a bit impossible.

Then you run into your own childhood friends and your kids hit it off playing together as tho they were the ones who had been friends......you just have to love great memories.

Speaking of memories, I have some that I'm going to post shortly that will definitely bring back the memories. But, that'll be a couple days. I'm still putting that one together in my head. When it all comes together, I'll put it down permanently. I'm still "dwelling" on it.

Anyway, yesterday I spoke with a old friend (she's not old, by the way....just go WAY back!).....That was a great experience! There's nothing like touching base with not just acquaintances, but old friends! The memories for me are endless.... One thing I discovered and can appreciate in someone like her, boils down to the word that puts me up on my soapbox....Consistency! I cannot begin to express to you how wonderful it is to lose touch with someone for a period of a few years to relocate them and realize they were the same as when you had known them before. There's just too many that chase after the wind these days.....it's completely refreshing to see someone who's been steady as a rock. So, Missy, thank you for that! I'm sure we all have someone in our lives that fall into that consistent category that we are grateful we don't have to wonder what they're going to be like the next conversation!

A quote my dad used to say goes like this...."make a friend with a child, and you have a friend for life!" I'm proof....this is true!! I just love a good memory!!