Lyssie
I had the best day yesterday.
So in 4th grade, I met a girl named Elyssa. She was the coolest girl ever! We were best friends from just about the minute we met. We went to school and church together and spent just about every waking moment together that we could. I remember spending a TON of time at her house from 4th through 6th grade. I moved away after 6th grade, but we still kept in touch pretty well, and even went to camp together one summer in 1998 or 1999. But I haven't spent any real amount of time with her since then. She did come to my wedding with her husband, even though I had to miss hers for another one I was in on the same day. But seeing each other about 10 minutes in the last 10 years? Crazy!
But yesterday, I got to spend the whole day with her. And it was awesome. Everything that made me love being her friend when we were 9 was still there. She's hilarious, nerdy, random, kind, goofy, and super fun. We like a lot of the same things, but still have enough differing interests to teach each other new things. Our husbands would be best friends (we're sure, they haven't actually met but once at our wedding). And I love her parents too. As soon as I walked into their house here (they moved here from Houston, where we first met, a year before we moved to Denver) I felt completely at home. Even though it was a different house, it was still their house. I felt like we were going to have a sleepover and eat uncooked ramen and watch The Nightmare Before Christmas. Or Mrs. Doubtfire. and make friendship bracelets.
I love thinking about all the things that made us friends as kids, but I also love dreaming about what would make us friends now if we were in the same place. Well, and what does make us friends even though she's in Oklahoma. We just have a connection that somehow makes friendship easy. This doesn't happen with everyone, and I've been fortunate to have this connection with several other people through the years. There's just something about that first true "best friend" that you have. I feel so lucky to still be in contact with Elyssa, and I hope and pray that we will get to spend more time together (it helps that her parents live here now!). I'm really terrible at keeping up with friends, so hopefully I can hold myself to keeping in contact with her. And convincing her and her husband to move here. That shouldn't be too difficult, right?
So in 4th grade, I met a girl named Elyssa. She was the coolest girl ever! We were best friends from just about the minute we met. We went to school and church together and spent just about every waking moment together that we could. I remember spending a TON of time at her house from 4th through 6th grade. I moved away after 6th grade, but we still kept in touch pretty well, and even went to camp together one summer in 1998 or 1999. But I haven't spent any real amount of time with her since then. She did come to my wedding with her husband, even though I had to miss hers for another one I was in on the same day. But seeing each other about 10 minutes in the last 10 years? Crazy!
But yesterday, I got to spend the whole day with her. And it was awesome. Everything that made me love being her friend when we were 9 was still there. She's hilarious, nerdy, random, kind, goofy, and super fun. We like a lot of the same things, but still have enough differing interests to teach each other new things. Our husbands would be best friends (we're sure, they haven't actually met but once at our wedding). And I love her parents too. As soon as I walked into their house here (they moved here from Houston, where we first met, a year before we moved to Denver) I felt completely at home. Even though it was a different house, it was still their house. I felt like we were going to have a sleepover and eat uncooked ramen and watch The Nightmare Before Christmas. Or Mrs. Doubtfire. and make friendship bracelets.
I love thinking about all the things that made us friends as kids, but I also love dreaming about what would make us friends now if we were in the same place. Well, and what does make us friends even though she's in Oklahoma. We just have a connection that somehow makes friendship easy. This doesn't happen with everyone, and I've been fortunate to have this connection with several other people through the years. There's just something about that first true "best friend" that you have. I feel so lucky to still be in contact with Elyssa, and I hope and pray that we will get to spend more time together (it helps that her parents live here now!). I'm really terrible at keeping up with friends, so hopefully I can hold myself to keeping in contact with her. And convincing her and her husband to move here. That shouldn't be too difficult, right?
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