Flashback Friday:Make new friends, but keep the old

Over the Christmas holiday, an old friend of mine came into town. Well, she's not old (unless of course I consider myself old.....naah, not yet), but our friendship is! We have known each other since kindergarten which is amazing to even say and even more so to think about! Granted we haven't kept in touch as well as we could have all these years, but we were able to rekindle some of what has escaped us over the past 10 years when we saw each other recently. So, here are some before pictures-

June 1983, our first Girl Scout troop camping experience. Can you guess which one is me?

That's right...I'm there bottom left, and my friend Sanna is the one

who I've got my arm draped around!

And here we are in 1984 after yet another Girl Scouting event, hammin' it up for the camera. Oh, I should mention that's my mom on the right and her mom behind us (since both our moms just might check this blog) !And guess what we're doing in this one? Yep, Girl Scout stuff...I know it's hard to tell with the costumes we have on, so I wanted to be sure you knew. Ha.Ha. I'm on the far right, Sanna is 2nd from the left. Circa 1985 And here we are lovin' on old Woodsy the Owl at...none other than...a Girl Scouting event in 1987! Seriously, we did have lives outside of girl scouts, I just don't have any documentation of it!! We had sleep overs and bday parties and walking down to the corner store and buying candy....candy cigarettes of all things!I can't find one we took from her wedding, but here she is at my baby shower when I was pregnant with set of twins #1. I think this was near the end of March 1999.

The boys were born 6 weeks later. Kristin is the other girl in the picture. The three of us had this tortured yet oh-so-close, you-have-to-play with ME friendship from the first grade on. We ended up in the councilor's office and principal's office more times than I care to remember because we either LOVED each other and got along nicely, or HATED each other and made life living hell for each other. Oh my word it was awful!! We spent a lot of recesses inside writing paragraphs on how we would try to get along together........girls, they're tough!

And so here we are just a week or so ago. She had a baby almost a year ago-he's a cutie. So, we've come full circle and have once again found some common ground and the memories have returned. I'm glad to have her back in my life since we share so much history. Other than parents and siblings, she's known me the longest!

And I'm glad to say we have learned HOW TO PLAY NICE!!!