so, we all have them..those people that become a friend for a lifetime. the one that can never be replaced. while i feel so blessed to have had several friends that have a forever spot in my heart like this, today happens to be one kindred spirit's birthday....so this is for you brooke!!!
but nevertheless, we were forced to associate when tennis rolled around. she was on the team too...geesh...honestly, by the end of our freshman year i'm pretty sure i totally annoyed her! but when we returned for our sophmore year, a friendship started to form - one that was most unexpected, but definitely the best!!
in so many ways we are total opposites, but i think that made things fun. as our friendship grew we were a perfect balance. she would tell me to study and i'd drag her to the mall for coffee and shopping. she'd wash her sheets every saturday - i'd wash twice a year! if i remembered to take them home at christmas! we were definitely good for each other!
we were travel partners - heading to some of the craziest places. well not really, just all the rainy places. we took off our junior year for florida we were in tampa along with a hurricane...so we headed to disney instead. then we flew to houston and spent an entire week watching brady bunch reruns while it rained outside! we flew to her home near st. louis several times and escaped to my hometown lots too!
but there was this one time, when her room mate suggested a quick trip to chicago for a chocolate trip pizza. you should know chicago was about 6 hours away from where we were having lunch on that sunday afternoon. brooke didn't want to go because she had a paper due on a book she hadn't read...but being the good sport she came along and we had a blast! and yes, she wrote the paper while we told her all about the book.
we cried when anne and gilbert didn't get together. we cried when they did. we failed HEL together and got 4.0's together. then there was the time we kidnapped her for her birthday. she had never had a surprise party so we pulled out all the stops and got her good!
but in with all the crazy fun times were those times of incredible conversation. times when the world seemed insane and reality was scarey. brooke liked to sleep (i guess she gave up midnight vacuuming!) so she would put a towel down in front of her door. i knew that meant she was sleeping and to leave her alone...but if i really needed to talk, she'd let me in anyways... i know many of those nights i drove her batty, but she'd listen anyways.
after college she headed to poland for a year and couldn't come home for my wedding. i was so bummed, but she called me the morning of the wedding. when she moved to california, she called to tell me she might, just may be falling in love. and then i was helping her plan a wedding! i've been blessed to visit her in LA and blessed that she usually makes the trek to a town near here once a year...
i pray that one day, we live a little closer. that we can get together more often, that we can have a weekend filled with anne, tea, coffee, and late night talks....
this was us just a few years ago...we've changed a little huh?? i miss you brooke...i'm thankful for your role in my life and believe that we will indeed be kindred spirits for years to come....
happy birthday friend....give your boys hugs from me and celebrate big time!! may God bless you with incredible passion for Him and life and all things this next year.....
us in 1995
like most of my lifetime, forever, best friends, i thought she was quite the snob fall quarter of my freshman year. she lived above me and would vacuum at 2 in the morning...drove me nuts! then she always had her hair done, make-up on, and wore suite coats to classes...can i just say weird!! she would also sit down front. i on the other hand - rolled out of bed and barely made it to class, sat near the back, and pretty much doodled my way through class. and vacumming? well, did we even have one of those?but nevertheless, we were forced to associate when tennis rolled around. she was on the team too...geesh...honestly, by the end of our freshman year i'm pretty sure i totally annoyed her! but when we returned for our sophmore year, a friendship started to form - one that was most unexpected, but definitely the best!!
in so many ways we are total opposites, but i think that made things fun. as our friendship grew we were a perfect balance. she would tell me to study and i'd drag her to the mall for coffee and shopping. she'd wash her sheets every saturday - i'd wash twice a year! if i remembered to take them home at christmas! we were definitely good for each other!
we were travel partners - heading to some of the craziest places. well not really, just all the rainy places. we took off our junior year for florida we were in tampa along with a hurricane...so we headed to disney instead. then we flew to houston and spent an entire week watching brady bunch reruns while it rained outside! we flew to her home near st. louis several times and escaped to my hometown lots too!
but there was this one time, when her room mate suggested a quick trip to chicago for a chocolate trip pizza. you should know chicago was about 6 hours away from where we were having lunch on that sunday afternoon. brooke didn't want to go because she had a paper due on a book she hadn't read...but being the good sport she came along and we had a blast! and yes, she wrote the paper while we told her all about the book.
we cried when anne and gilbert didn't get together. we cried when they did. we failed HEL together and got 4.0's together. then there was the time we kidnapped her for her birthday. she had never had a surprise party so we pulled out all the stops and got her good!
but in with all the crazy fun times were those times of incredible conversation. times when the world seemed insane and reality was scarey. brooke liked to sleep (i guess she gave up midnight vacuuming!) so she would put a towel down in front of her door. i knew that meant she was sleeping and to leave her alone...but if i really needed to talk, she'd let me in anyways... i know many of those nights i drove her batty, but she'd listen anyways.
after college she headed to poland for a year and couldn't come home for my wedding. i was so bummed, but she called me the morning of the wedding. when she moved to california, she called to tell me she might, just may be falling in love. and then i was helping her plan a wedding! i've been blessed to visit her in LA and blessed that she usually makes the trek to a town near here once a year...
i pray that one day, we live a little closer. that we can get together more often, that we can have a weekend filled with anne, tea, coffee, and late night talks....
this was us just a few years ago...we've changed a little huh?? i miss you brooke...i'm thankful for your role in my life and believe that we will indeed be kindred spirits for years to come....
happy birthday friend....give your boys hugs from me and celebrate big time!! may God bless you with incredible passion for Him and life and all things this next year.....
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