1. 2 or 3 years ago my jake played tball on a team with a boy named jacob. it was an age 4-7 division so jacob was a bit younger. i knew his mom jenn by face only...and knew that she was a photographer who took incredible pictures of the boys during the games. one of which is framed and hanging in j's room. and the other is on the fridge.
2. fast forward to 2009 meet the teacher night. a super nervous mom is bringing her first born to kindergarten. she recognizes me on the spot and starts crying because she feels so much relief that i'm not a total stranger.
3. we become friends pretty quick after realizing that we may have been separated at birth. we have the same since of humor and totally click. ***sidenote - also weird...her daughter's pediatric ophthalmologist was MY pediatric ophthalmologist 32 years ago. for reals.***
4. drops the bombshell a few weeks ago that they are moving to plano and jacob's last day would be april 1. booooo!!!
5. go to a "i'm moving 20 minutes away but i want an all about me night/going away party" happy hour where the only people i know are jenn, amber, and my neighbor monica. at said happy hour i meet trish, jenn's sister. within 5 minutes we are declaring each other to be our new bff and a love affair begins. i seriously adore them both.
6. decide that new bff trish needs to move to dfw. she lives in abilene so i hammer away all night with "dude, what's in abilene? seriously. move here. who do know in abilene? blah blah blah..." finally at one point i say "abilene, really? i know one person in abilene. gail. c'mon." trish freezes and says "GAIL WHO?" i say "gail c. married to terry c. mother to seth and parker c. parker was the ring bearer in our wedding. i'm freaking named after her...she's my cousin." insert annoying girl screaming and a lot of "NO WAY...SHUT UP...OMG" etc. because MY COUSIN GAIL is her flippin' best friend in the entire world.
trish calls her up, shoves the phone in my face and i say "gail, it's lisa rogers." silence for like 2 eternal minutes and the she joins us in our freak out. i'm crying, she's crying, trish is crying...jenn's crying. un-freakin'-believable.
i'm whipped. but here's a little old school shout out to my cuz. and trish, as soon as sissy sends me copies of the crazy night i'll post a pic of my new bff. :)
4 comments:
Freakin' goosebumps. All over again. LOVE that we made the blog! Though I'm totally jealous that Trish gets the BFF title. Seriously jealz. Pics soon. ~ Sissy
Oh, and GREAT pic. Abby is the spitting image of you.
You forgot to mention that you were a junior bridesmaid in Gail and Terry's wedding. Small world it is!
And Gail was the flower girl in your parents' wedding. :)
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