Bartlett Family Blog: Half our lives...

Part of the reason that we traveled back to Kansas City last weekend was because my best friend from high school (also my matron of honor all those years ago!) was in town from Arkansas to celebrate two of her kiddos' birthdays with family and friends. We have been blessed by this friendship since our freshman year when we were just two 14-year olds with lockers next to each other. It was an instant connection and we haven't looked back since.
We went to dances together (not together together...but with our dates), dated the same guy (don't ask!), had MANY sleepovers, hung out at football games and pizza dances and did the typical high school girl stuff! Even when we went to different colleges, she attended all the "best friend weekends" my sorority put on, we made Sunday nights our catch up night on the phone, and even took an amazing spring break trip together to Hawaii our junior year!!! Eventually we were each others maids of honor, threw baby showers for one another and now get to share the joys of being stay-at-home moms together.
I am so amazed and blessed to have her in my life and cannot believe we have been friends for over half of our lives. We continue to talk at least once a week on the phone, even if it is usually interupted several times by one of my two boys or one of her three kids! I hate that we live so far away. It would be so much easier if we lived in the same town but for now, we'll just have to keep our cell phones charged!