Gaga For Lulu

You want to hear something really cool?  I have known my best friend for as long as she has been alive, almost 32 years.  And her 2 older brothers were like my brothers.  We grew up together, their family and mine.  We did vacations together, sports, the pool, school, church and countless other activities.  Our parents were even in each other’s weddings.  Not many people can say that!

Here comes the really neat part, now our kids play together.  Uh huh, we all have children now and they all play and do the very same activities that we used to do.  We were even all at the beach  last week and had a damn good time laughing at our kids throwing light sticks around after dark and sitting on the lifegaurds chair.  They even got to ride the rides together.

And you know those embarrassing pictures?  The bathtub ones.  We have so many of those.  How the hell did 5 kids fit in a bathtub at the same time?  But there we were.  Bubbles, floating body parts and all smiles.   It is just so damn cool to see our kids together scrub a dub dubbing the same way!  I can’t way for them to laugh at the pictures when they have their own.

I guess I am pretty darn lucky in this way.  To know someone your whole life, it is so special.  No cattiness, no fakeness, no weirdness or tension.  We are who we are, and we have such a comfortableness.  It is really awesome!

5 top ways to realize that someone has children- in pictures…

1. The bed in the master bedroom at any given point of the day! Yes, that is one huge pile of clothes.  And no, I am  not embaressed.

2. The art work I own.  Uh huh, that is actually a pantry door!

3. That is a… bathtub!  Yes, it has evolved into a playroom.  Amazing.

4. An “organized” mud room.  Hah is all I have to say about that one. We still have no matching shoes in the morning.  Why are there even bins I ask?

And finally 5. It is party time at 7 AM.  I think they has already been seperated and in time out by this point.  Do y’all ever remember what it was like to sleep in and awake to a fresh pot of coffee and read the ol’ paper?  Now we are on our 2nd snack of the morning by 9Am.  They are great though, those little booger heads that they are!  And they are mine!