To add to the fullness of our summer, my friend Kaylyn and her family came to visit yesterday. Kaylyn and I became friends in high school and have kept in touch ever since. Her husband is in the Air Force so they move around a lot, and we randomly see each other when we are relatively geographically close. Super long term readers might remember that Kaylyn also twin girls (now 12!) and when the boys were 6 weeks old, she came to stay with us for a week to help out. I HIGHLY recommend all twin moms get another twin mom to stay with them for a week because it was The Best Thing Ever.
Right after she stayed with us, their family moved to Japan. And yesterday they visited en route to a flight that will take them to Germany for three years.
I think it is so important to have these long-term friendships. They turn more into family-like relationships than friends, and we can pick up easily where we left off. Even though we haven't seen each other in five years, these five years have been less of a separation since we have blogs, facebook, and email to keep us connected.
The boys were too small for us to want to travel to Japan but something tells me Nate and Alex are going to get to see Germany soon!
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I like the idea of switching from thinking my life is busy to thinking it's full. Great why to look at life. That's one of the reasons I love your blog so much, it's not just funny with great photos, it has depth.
Also, we need to figure out how to do a play date. Michael was asking about Nate and Alex again this morning.
I have three friends (two of whom are identical twins) that I've been good friends with since I was at least five. One of them I've known since I was four months old. Definitely makes life nice.
I value my newer friends, but these friends are more like they already know what I'm going to think or feel.
My husband is in the military so we have friends that we have kept in contact with all over. The one good benefit is we are inspired to travel all over the continent and world to visit :) My twins were born in the Netherlands while we lived in Germany. I would highly recommend that you take the opportunity to go and travel there while your friends are there!!
Thanks for both the main sentiments here. "Full" is so much nicer to think about than "busy," and it is so very much nicer than "empty." I also completely agree with your characterization of long-time friends as family. It's hard when distance keeps you from seeing each other, but it's refreshing to know that you really can reconnect so easily when there are chances to get together.
There is nothing better than someone that knows you when..(bad perms, icky boyfriends, a million chats about the all important at the time). So true that you just pick up where you left off and keep going.
Fullness, I like that wording.
Hey Laura,
I am still a silent reader... but IF YOU EVER COME TO GERMANY you gotta tell in advance so I can show you around the beautiful places in my town/country!! You're always welcome!
Greetings, Steffi :-)
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