Recently a childhood friend moved back to Arizona after being gone for more years than I care to count. In the time that she was away, we lost touch, changed our life direction a time or two, got back in touch, married, had kids, got back in touch and moved. Our lasting friendship is something that I'm very thankful for. In my life I have had many friends and lost touch with a lot of them over the years.
There are a select few that when I see them again, it's like a day hadn't past without each other in our lives. Shelley and I became friends in high school and I truly adore her. We both were cheerleaders and went to the same church so that brought us together, I thought she was SO COOL! She helped me understand how to be a good friend because she was so kind to me. At our young age she was the first girl friend I had that wanted to "talk" to me when she knew I was upset. Most of all she was super silly and helped be feel like it was ok to be me, whatever that was...
If you haven't figured it out she is the lovely mother in the photo of the family above. It was a last minute session and we had very little day light but we got several photos that we were both happy with. I'm so happy that I got to spend some time with her recently and hope that her move back to Arizona is everything they'd like it to be!