Old Friends, New Friends, Good Friends.

Isn't great to catch up with old friends? I know I haven't experienced much in life yet, being the youngster that I am, but I have experienced the pain and excitement of moving away from a place, and leaving close friends behind. When I moved to Virginia from Ohio four years ago, I was best friends with two awesome girls. We used to hang out all the time and do all the crazy things 6th grade girls do together, it was the life!

I have so many memories of hanging out with these friends. So much of my life revolved around them, we spent a ton of time together. We used to have what we called "triple sleepovers" where all three of us would spend the night at one of the other's house. We used to make cookies, stay up late, try to swallow each other on the pull-out couch, and just be crazy. When one of the girl's sister had a baby, we were the honorary aunts. When I found out my parents were getting divorced, they made me laugh right away. We had so many inside jokes, and I have an entire box of notes that we wrote back in forth to each other in 6th grade.

Things change, people grow up, and new friendships are made. When I first moved we used to talk all the time, and I saw them a few times a year when I would visit my dad. Gradually we stopped talking as much, and my dad moved to Virginia so I haven't been to Ohio in a couple of years. They stopped being friends, but still hang out in groups sometimes. None of us have forgotten the friendship we had 4th through 6th grade though, I'm sure. It is really cool, because after I moved I actually became even better friends with one of my other friends that I wasn't as close with when I moved there.

A lot of things have changed, and if you were to look at the three of us now you might be surprised that we were such close friends, but we were. Thanks to things like Facebook, I am still able to maintain a relationship with these girls. We aren't best friends, but we share a past and I love getting to talk to them occasionally and catch up on everything. These friends also make me appreciate the friends I have now. Because, they are the bestest friends a girl could ask for. :)

I look forward to the next time I go to Ohio. I don't know when that will be, but I hope it is soon. I miss the snow. :) And maybe the next time I go we will have to break out the cookie dough and have another triple sleepover.