Friends are friends...WARTS and all!!

Today I am thankful for my BFF of OMGOODNESS "19" YEARS. Oh my...that's a long time. We will have a twenty year anniversary next Fall. Can you give, or better yet, GET presents for 20 year BFF anniveraries like you do marriages? There should be a list like there is a wedding anniversary list of appropriate gifts. I'm sure there should be something good on that list...tee hee hee. Anyhoo, her name is Dee Dee and she is amazing. We met the first day of our 6th grade year in Social Studies. It was BFF at first sight. We truly have been all this time. We met...buddied up...and here we are. We played the same band instruments (bells and xylephone). We even worked together in the same department at a bank while we were in college. I know we had to have had a spat here and there but we never called off our friendship that I can remember. We have been there for each other since day one. I love her because she is always there for me. Whether there is anything going on or not...she is content to talk a lot about something or a lot about nothing. We love a lot of the same things, especially shopping, although because of the distance we live between each other we don't get to spend a lot of time doing those things. It never really mattered what we did/do when we were/are together just as long as we were both there. We planned our weddings with each other...that was a wonderful time for both of us. (Scroll down to my BIG HAIR blog and you will find a pic of us at her wedding. WOW...a then and now!) There was nothing we would not do for each other. We were, and still are, inseperable even though there are miles between us. We talk on the phone almost daily. If not more than once daily if we get to talking about something serious. She homeschools her children...Lord I don't know how she does it. But I am very proud of her. I thought she was crazy and honestly did not have a whole lot of faith that she would be successful at that. Only because I could never try that myself. I would be crazy after the first day. She will tell you, I asked her, "are you sure?" more than a thousand times as she was setting up to be a homeschool mom. But in spite of me, (she has a greater BFF relationship with the man upstairs) she has done it and is succeeding greatly. Her children are wonderful and thriving and loving life. She prayed about it...got the go ahead...and did it. REMARKABLY!!! She has a heart for Jesus first, her husband second and then her children. It is evident. She declares it daily and that's what I love about her. She has no problem putting the stops on me and reminding me of a scripture or story in the Bible to keep me in line. God just knows who to fit together doesn't he? Go check her out...she's a hottie...www.praises2sing.blogspot.com. She will bless you with her blogs as she has me.

I love you Dee Dee and thank God he put us together. BFF
XOXOXO