Old friends, still friends

A few weeks ago we were eating at Texas Roadhouse after church. I looked across the room and saw Tammie who is a friend from Peru that I've lost touch with as I forgot her newly married last name. It pleased my heart to see her & I hurried over to give her my email & phone number. We have since caught up on each others lives and I hope we will stay in touch from this point forward. We have a long history together with a lot of similarities and again at this point in our lives, we have both changed a lot but still have a lot in common.
Then on Friday night, I received a phone call that said Private caller...the lady on the other end played Guess Who with me. It took me a minute but after hearing her voice say a couple sentences I knew it was Kristi. Once again, my heart was so pleased. I have missed Kristi so much. She has been through a lot and I only had an email address but haven't used it. I regret that. She called me as she has lost a couple people recently and she is thinking of old friends too. We talked for almost 4 hours!!! I think we are pretty much caught up and now we can stay in touch and get together and live our lives in the present. I am so happy for her, to hear how she has recovered from some issues in her past. I have and always will consider her a dear friend.
The only sad part of re-connecting with these 2 gals is that it appears that my bestest friend from these days, whom both Tammie & Kristi remember as us being inseperable, has cut me out of her life and I don't even know why. Krisit got my number from Hope and she gave her the last number she had for me and just said that she hasn't talked to me in years. Like it was no big deal. I have sent her several cards over the last few years. I don't have an accurate email or phone number for her. Sometimes I think about just showing up at her door. I can't figure it out. I know that we live different lives now, I'm a mom of a 6 yr old and her son is in the military now. But I thought we had a friendship that would last a lifetime. It really breaks my heart. So, this re-connection is kinda bittersweet as it re-surfaces this open wound between us that I don't know how it got there. I just pray that through all this, possibly I will be able to reconnect with Hope also.

Selfish? Nah!

Well,some may say it is selfish to do what you want, when you want...And I just have to say that it feels good to do that sometimes! I have spent the last 2 weekends and a 1 weeknight ( at a Stampin Up party) scrapbooking and stamping & I loved it!!
I feel pretty good about my progress. Someday I'll try to post some page layouts or cards. Both of the crops I've went to have been totally awesome, the best I've ever been to. We made paper bag books & tag books out of a file folder & some other stuff at the first crop I went to. It was in Greentown, to benefit the Childrens Library. This last crop was a 24 hr crop. I went home and slept from 2:30 am to 7am. It was sponsored by a Stampin Up rep, Tiffany. I didn't know it till I got there, but she brought ALL her current stamps for us to use, in addition to her inks & punches. This may not seem like much to someone not in the Craft, but WOW! I was in heaven. She also gave us tons of product for our sign up fee, provided 3 great meals, and had doorprizes. I met all new people at both crops, as my regular batch of croppers did not choose to go to either of these.

This morning at breakfast, I commented on how we had been apart this weekend but all did something that we enjoyed. I was at the crop from 6pm on Friday till 6pm on Saturday. Rusty went to another Martial arts seminar, this time in Indy & free. Josh spent Friday night w/Gramma Karyn and went to a Civil War re-enactment on Saturday in Hartford City. He highly admires Abe Lincoln and he got to shake hands with "him"!! It was a great weekend all around. And today we were able to relax together and get ready for the week ahead.

In the end, I don't think it was selfish at all, as time away from each other allows us to treasure our times together better.