Reminiscing

Sit down, grab your coffee...or a lovely caramel latte. I had one of these at Panera Bread earlier tonight. I was there with Tosh and it was just a delightful night. Every time with my dear friend is a treasured time. Boy, we can cover a lot of topics.

Speaking of topics, just a little over a week ago, we were celebrating 300 posts and I asked for suggestions for posts, things you want to hear about...you had some really great suggestions and I will try to tackle them over the next little while...

I wanted to mention~ we had prizes and I know that the ones of you who won the Shane and Shane CD have not received them because I still have not received mine. Rest assured, they are on their way (I hope!). If I don't hear about one of us receiving our CD soon, I'll hunt them down and make sure we get our sweet music.

Now...back to Tosh and topics...I am going somewhere with this, I promise...one of your suggestions was to write about games I played as a child. When Tosh & I are together, it will often come up somewhere in there about things we enjoyed when we were kids...

We went to school together. She was the first one I met at SBCA (South Bay Christian Academy) when I moved to California from Tennessee at 10 years old (she was 9). We were fast friends.

Can I just insert here that it is impressive that any of us that went to that school can write a coherent sentence or that we know any math facts or history? I'm not saying we (I'm speaking for myself here now) actually do know any history OR math facts...or can write a coherent sentence now that I look back over these paragraphs above, but...moving right along...

We had nice teachers who loved us and who did their best. But we also had some who we could easily distract. There was one teacher in particular...if we could get her to talking, we could avoid an entire lesson. Or better yet, she'd forget about class and we'd just have gym instead. Yeah, it was fun like that.

There was an open field to the side of the school (church) that we spent HOURS playing in...our recesses seemed to last for very long amounts of time. You know that's saying something as a child...for a recess to seem long. But maybe they just couldn't find all of us out in that field and just kept letting us continue to play. Whatever the reason, we loved it. We weren't complaining! Tosh and I climbed trees, ran with our hair streaming behind us in our little checked uniforms...wild little ragamuffins we were out in that "prairie."

There was one tree that you could step wayyyy out onto the branch and bounce up and down. It would dip far down and pop right back up. So fun.

We'd laugh until one of us would wet our pants. I'm not naming names.

One of our favorite things to play was Little House on the Prairie. I was always Laura...because, well, my name is Lori...naturally! Tosh was Mary. Another favorite was Charlie's Angels. I was always the Jaclyn Smith character...Tosh was Farrah Fawcett or Cheryl Ladd.

We didn't own a television, but we still knew all about these shows. I believe we played Love Boat a few times too...

When we were at my house, one of my favorite things to do was to lean over her upside down...and then talk...have you ever tried that? Your mouth looks HYSTERICAL upside down and your chin looks like a funky nose. Try it sometime. Guaranteed laughs. I remember doing this with my friend, Deanna, too, and my mama...I can still picture how my mama looks upside down. :)

Ahhh, such good times. Don't you love how it feels to play? I miss loving to play like that. I don't get the urge to climb trees nearly so much as I did back then. I haven't played Laura in a long time. I did do a Jaclyn Smith impression recently when she was on that hair show, but that's the extent of my Jaclyn reenactment...

I'm so blessed that I still have my childhood friend in my day to day life. I don't take it for granted for a second. She is an extension of me and always will be. And even though I haven't seen her play Farrah Fawcett in a really LONG time, she's still every bit as fun.