Day {Four}

{Day 4 Your favorite photograph of your best friend.}

My very best friend & I have been very best friends since second grade. My family had just moved to Clever and we were in the same class and went to the same church. Years later, our dads are best friends and our moms are shopping buddies so it has helped to maintain our relationships as we are finding our separate ways.

My favorite picture is under my glass desk plate at home. I keep all of my most treasured pictures there so I can see them as I am walking out the door and first thing when I come home. Katie’s parents were letting her get professional senior pictures taken and she invited me along for a picture. I remember the photographer at the time saying it was ok for me to jump into a picture but that he didn’t like to take more than one because in 20 years we may not even be talking to each other. (It’s only been 8 but we’re still doing okay).

Anyway, we wore the shirts we had bought just for that picture, blue jeans, and bare feet. The picture matched our down-to-earth personalities and we both looked like the happiest girls in the world: we were best friends, we were graduating, and we had a big future in front of us.

Much has changed since that picture was taken. Katie graduated and I am a college drop out. We both got married to someone named Sean/Shawn. We have both bought our first houses - I stayed very near my family after vowing to move away and she moved away after vowing to live in Clever. Now she is searching for a new house and we are constantly remodeling ours. She is excited about trying to have a baby and I am anxiously trying to get my husband through school. Eight years ago we were the same people. You couldn’t tell where one of us ended and the other began. Today we are nearly as different as night and day, but that doesn’t mean we don’t still talk on the phone for 2 hours each week. Or that we don’t still pray over our meal no matter how busy the restaurant we meet up at. She’s still my bestie.



She's my right hand lady...



... And I am hers :)