Mama needed a break, and this weekend I had the opportunity to get away...
I took a trip to Indianapolis and visited my best friend of twenty-five years! I was nine years old and in fourth grade when I met her, and to this day she is my true life-partner. There is no one who knows me better, and there is nothing I cannot tell her....she is my rock!
Although we have not lived in the same state for the last nineteen years, we always have made a point to see each other at least once a year....and sometimes we are lucky to see each other more than that. We have traveled together, we have cried together, and we have laughed together! She was the only one I had stand up with me on my wedding day, and she was the first to know I was pregnant with my daughter (even before my husband!). In fact, the night my husband proposed...I accepted and immediately asked if I could call my best friend to share the news.
We once raised a duck together when we were in sixth grade, we both got our first periods within days of each other, we have driven cross-country together, and we went to Mardi Gras in 1997 and ruined any chance of a political future for both ourselves and our family!
However, we also can sit for hours just playing RumiKub, California Speed, or Chinese Checkers. We love to go to the casino and play the slot machines (we never win!)...but the best part is that we can just sit side by side watching TV while both surfing the internet on our laptops. Not a word spoken between us...just silent comfort.
Do you have a friend like this?
