Blast From the Past.1

I was thinking about my good friend from school yesterday morning..  We'd recently re-connected through another classmate who put up a facebook page for graduates of our class last year.  Connie and I have been talking, emailing, face-booking, and visiting each other for the last year and it has been so much fun to have her back in my life.

But, I was thinking about our past and what brought us together in the first place, somewhat amazed that this friendship ever even got started.  By my family's standards, her family was rich. Our parents did not know each other.  She lived in the city; I lived in the country.  She was popular, I was not.  We had very few classes together.  I was in orchestra, she was not.  I don't remember how it all got started, but it did.

We had sleep-overs, or I would stay in town instead of taking the bus home and get a ride home with mom after work.  We'd babysit together on her jobs and my jobs.  We'd take the bus uptown and shop together, stopping at the White Drug Cafe, in the basement of the White Drug...for Tab's and french fries with catsup.  (There was no Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi at the time, just Tab or Fresca!)  At that time, the White Drug was located on the Penny's block in Fargo, ND.

As I reminiced, I realized our main connection was that we were both boy-crazy!  Still, so was just about every girl out age.  Then something else sunk in....she was a city girl who loved the country and I was a country girl who loved the city!  Her Dad had a ranch with horses close to our farmstead and she loved horses.  I liked them, too, but I had a motorcycle instead of a horse.  We were from different worls and that appealed to each of us.

We drifted apart the last couple years of high schoool, but I would reccomend looking up your old friends...we picked up right where we left off and if there was any kind of old baggage...it vaporized with the years!  At the time of our 40 year reunion, we hadn't seen each other for 30 years.  I am so glad she is back in my life!

Christmas in Fargo, ND

Christmas in Fargo was such fun this year! I really wanted a white Christmas, since we don't get many in Georgia and I have been here nearly 5 years, but it was not to be. They did get snow shortly after we left, but that doesn't really count, does it? At least, not to me.

We spent Christmas Eve at my sister, Kat's, place and had 18 adults and 7 children. Those missing were Gayle and her guy and Robin's family, which would have brought us up to 22 adults and 10 children. We did our annual pass-around and the hot items people were 'stealing' were a sort of dust-buster and a canister set. Erin shared big news that she is expecting and her dad, Dave, was able to join us this year. He had to shovel out of a snowstorm in Colorado to get here.

We spent the evening on Christmas Day with Jeremy and Tracy, exchanging gifts and eating her yummy supper. It was great fun to be able to spend so much time with them. I think we got to see them every day!

It was great to see Mom and Ken, too. They are both looking so good and much easier to understand! We went to a matinee of "A Night At the Museum" and had lots of laughs. On another night we went out to Red Lobster, Mom's favorite restaurant.

Driving back to the Minneapolis airport, we stopped off for a short visit with Rod and Nashell in Woodbury. I am sorry we couldn't see more of you, but when we come for such a short time, family is really our main purpose in Fargo. I will be back for a longer time in May, when Tracy has her baby, and can maybe see more of you all then.

I pray your Christmas'es were as wonderful as mine! Love and blessings!