"True friendship isn't about being inseparable, it's about being separated and nothing changes."
This quote truly explains the relationship between my best friend and myself. Although we don't get to talk daily and rarely get to see each other, we both know the other one is there if we need her. :)
(Jessica and I at the ADPi house on the Vandy
campus in Nashville, TN. yes, we know we're dorky!)
Jessica and I met in the spring of 2001 at the ADPi spring rush bar-b-que. We instantly finished each others sentences and had just about everything imaginable in common. It was almost as if God had created 1 person in 2 bodies. We we're inseparable from that first meeting through the rest of the semester. That summer found us talking on the phone, texting, and instant messaging all the time...since we were nine hours away. We then became roomates in the ADPi house for the fall semester....oh the stories we could tell you! :) We both left TAMU in the spring of 2003 for different reasons and ended up in different states doing our own thing. But we always kept in contact. Top my surprise she and her husband showed up at my wedding...just weeks after having their first child. I honestly don't know what made me more happy walking down the stairs...knowing that I was about to marry the man of my dreams or that Jessica was sitting in the audience! After that visit we went several years without seeing each other until I had just had enough. Jeff and I packed all the kids up last July (yes, the twins were only 2 months old for this trip) and headed to Alabama! With just a days notice I let her we were on our way. We had 3 of the best days in Alabama. One of the absolutely amazing things about our friendship is that we now have children close to the same age...instant playmates! Jessica has three beautiful children Emma, Sophie and Connor....all of whom will be partners in crime with my 4...watch out world! Our last visit was more of a miracle witnessing then an actual get together. Jessica's husband Jon received a much needed kidney transplant on April 16th, 2008. I can not even begin to describe what it is like to be in the presence of God performing a miracle! The surgery was a success and his recovery was amazing shorter then expected.
Hopefully one day we will be able to live closer together...or at least in the same state! I can only imagine us going through the raising teenagers phase together and then one day being grandmothers. (oh, lets hope that's a long way away....I need time to think up a cute name to be called, "grandmother" doesn't really suite me.)
(my favorite picture. this was about four hours after surgery....amazing!)
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