Smiling Mom

Isn’t it funny how time just seems to slip by without you even noti­cing? Today after taking my mom back to the air­port (so sad to see her go!) I spent a good por­tion of the day in San Fran­cisco with my friend and her family. Shawnna and I have been friends since the fifth grade. That’s twenty years now!! I could of never ima­gi­ned that I’d have a friendship las­ting this long.

I vir­tually lived at Shawnna’s house for many, many years of my life. I lear­ned how to play Clue, Truth or Dare, did years and years of cheer­lea­ding with her, and had end­less slee­po­vers on her trundle bed. And many other expe­rien­ces etched in my memory from our for­ma­tive years. Some of which I don’t quite want to publish on this blog. None too bad though, Mom and Dad, I promise!

Today, both of us are married, her to her high-school sweetheart, and me to my college sweetheart, with chil­dren and have moved away from our home town. She now lives in another state. So I was thri­lled to get this rare oppor­tu­nity to go out to lunch with her today as she visi­ted San Francisco.

Her son, AP, and my son BC are just about three months apart in age. They were ins­tant friends. It’s so fun seeing our kids hit it off just as quickly as we did. BC and AP have simi­lar per­so­na­li­ties. They are both out­going, asser­tive (sounds bet­ter than aggres­sive ), very agile, ver­bal, happy, etc. On top of all that, they are both the most ado­ra­ble boys you’ll ever see! Just look at the pic­tu­res below, I’m sure you’ll agree. I know that if cir­cums­tan­ces were dif­fe­rent and we lived in the same town, they would be life-long friends. It was pretty cool!

Any­ways, Shawnna, her hus­band, her mom and I had a great time catching up. She’s one of those friends that I can be away from for exten­ded periods of time, yet start right back up as if we saw each other just yes­ter­day. Since I’m terri­ble at kee­ping in touch, that’s the kind of friendship that I truly che­rish! I feel so lucky to have her and others like her in my life.

Now for the pic­tu­res of this won­der­ful day, and my one from my birth­day din­ner last night:

Din­ner with friends & family

Heart­brea­kers!! BC &AP run­ning @ Pier 39

Watching the sea lions

20 years of friendship, 3.8 kids, 2 dogs and lots of laughs!

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