rob left for germany for a week (work) and while he was away, laura, my good friend from years past (about 25 years!!), came up from suffolk, VA for a visit. i honestly could not remember the last time i saw her...yes, it was that long ago. our mutual friend, Hope, also came over to catch laura while she was in town. except for our respective wedding days, the last time we'd been together, the three of us, just for the hell of it was so long ago, i can't even remember the exact year. was it 1992? we three met up at great falls. this is the only picture i have left of that day. hope took the picture, so it's just me and laura in the picture.
anyway, it was a lovely visit...we caught up a bit on each other's lives and at the same time, just carried on as if no time had passed at all. this is what i love about our friendship...even when years pass, the moment we get together, we can just carry on like usual. it's a very comfortable feeling. i always appreciate that about my friends. i am one who values a sense of security, often times in the guise of sameness, a comforting sameness, and that's how our friendship has always been like over the many years since i first came to know them in my turbulent adolescent years. comfort, security. it's a feeling like having that cup of hot coffee on a cold day, basking in warm sunshine right after a swim, the moment just before sleep over takes you, soaking in a warm tub, eating french fries hot out of the fryer...you get the picture. they were w/me when things got crappy at home, getting thru middle school, piano lessons, painting my room pepto bismal pink, high school, college. anyway, this is a long winded way of saying that it was good to see them.
here's a more recent picture. this is Hope's son Justin, born about 5 months before ozzy. they are having a playdate of their own and are just hanging out and doing some Look Who's Talking Now chatting.
after laura and hope left, i was not alone for too long b/c my mom and dad showed up that evening. my mom plans to stay w/me for the week while rob is out of town. i took advantage of having mom around to get some one on one time with just mimi...something she has really missed. so today, we joined her classmates for a playdate at burke nursery's pumpkin playground.
this picture is crappy...didnt realize the camera wasn't focused in on the kids...the wagon ride was awfully bumpy so i was having a hard time seeing thru the viewfinder b/c every time we hit a bump (and that was pretty much the whole ride) the camera was bouncing around so much so that i couldnt keep it on my eye. i just bought a speedlight for my camera, so now my camera weighs like 10lbs and now is really hard to hold steady...but gives me a great workout to get those sexy Popeye forearms. i'm getting an anchor tatoo when they get big enough and a corn cob pipe to finish the look.
anyway, it was a lovely visit...we caught up a bit on each other's lives and at the same time, just carried on as if no time had passed at all. this is what i love about our friendship...even when years pass, the moment we get together, we can just carry on like usual. it's a very comfortable feeling. i always appreciate that about my friends. i am one who values a sense of security, often times in the guise of sameness, a comforting sameness, and that's how our friendship has always been like over the many years since i first came to know them in my turbulent adolescent years. comfort, security. it's a feeling like having that cup of hot coffee on a cold day, basking in warm sunshine right after a swim, the moment just before sleep over takes you, soaking in a warm tub, eating french fries hot out of the fryer...you get the picture. they were w/me when things got crappy at home, getting thru middle school, piano lessons, painting my room pepto bismal pink, high school, college. anyway, this is a long winded way of saying that it was good to see them.
here's a more recent picture. this is Hope's son Justin, born about 5 months before ozzy. they are having a playdate of their own and are just hanging out and doing some Look Who's Talking Now chatting.
after laura and hope left, i was not alone for too long b/c my mom and dad showed up that evening. my mom plans to stay w/me for the week while rob is out of town. i took advantage of having mom around to get some one on one time with just mimi...something she has really missed. so today, we joined her classmates for a playdate at burke nursery's pumpkin playground.
this picture is crappy...didnt realize the camera wasn't focused in on the kids...the wagon ride was awfully bumpy so i was having a hard time seeing thru the viewfinder b/c every time we hit a bump (and that was pretty much the whole ride) the camera was bouncing around so much so that i couldnt keep it on my eye. i just bought a speedlight for my camera, so now my camera weighs like 10lbs and now is really hard to hold steady...but gives me a great workout to get those sexy Popeye forearms. i'm getting an anchor tatoo when they get big enough and a corn cob pipe to finish the look.
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