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By Erin Fox
erinslittlecorner.com
Last Saturday, Hubby and I dropped our kids at his parents' house and headed to Kansas City for the day. After college two of my dearest friends decided to move up there to break away and try something different from Wichita.
Their trial was supposed to be for a short time.
But they each eventually met and married two wonderful men who, despite their other positive attributes, refuse to leave Kansas City. Which means I don't get to see my friends nearly enough.
When I'm with them I still feel like that impulsive and giggly teenager who took spring break with Sunshine and lived with Lily in college. When we're together it always surprises me that we're now GROWN-UPS. We're all married, two of us have kids, and we all have our own checking accounts. How did this happen? Sitting in Sunshine's big house and holding her new beautiful baby, touring Lily's brand-new gorgeous home, it seemed like the three of us were playing and that our moms should come by at any moment to make us go to bed on time.
On the way home Hubby said something about an avalanche: that in the middle of the avalanche it's fluid and changing, but at the sudden end it is like being in concrete. Which he pointed out is like our life. We've all been playing and enjoying life, and now we're all settled in our (likely) forever towns with our forever friends.
I like having plans, knowing where I'm going to be in five years or ten years. Hubby and I look around and know that our new friends we have made here in Augusta, our friends we have been lucky enough to hold onto from growing up, these are the friends we'll have for the next 20 years.
And I love my concrete surroundings.
By Erin Fox
erinslittlecorner.com
Last Saturday, Hubby and I dropped our kids at his parents' house and headed to Kansas City for the day. After college two of my dearest friends decided to move up there to break away and try something different from Wichita.
Their trial was supposed to be for a short time.
But they each eventually met and married two wonderful men who, despite their other positive attributes, refuse to leave Kansas City. Which means I don't get to see my friends nearly enough.
When I'm with them I still feel like that impulsive and giggly teenager who took spring break with Sunshine and lived with Lily in college. When we're together it always surprises me that we're now GROWN-UPS. We're all married, two of us have kids, and we all have our own checking accounts. How did this happen? Sitting in Sunshine's big house and holding her new beautiful baby, touring Lily's brand-new gorgeous home, it seemed like the three of us were playing and that our moms should come by at any moment to make us go to bed on time.
On the way home Hubby said something about an avalanche: that in the middle of the avalanche it's fluid and changing, but at the sudden end it is like being in concrete. Which he pointed out is like our life. We've all been playing and enjoying life, and now we're all settled in our (likely) forever towns with our forever friends.
I like having plans, knowing where I'm going to be in five years or ten years. Hubby and I look around and know that our new friends we have made here in Augusta, our friends we have been lucky enough to hold onto from growing up, these are the friends we'll have for the next 20 years.
And I love my concrete surroundings.
