summer FUN and friendship

Hands down, summer is my favorite season.

Summer is a time for outdoor play, sunshine, water fun, camping, road trips, and hanging out with friends.

When Fourth of July comes and goes, I always feel a bit of sadness that summer is once again flying by...........soon Target will have their shelves packed with 'back to school" items.

I am certainly NOT ready to go back to school and will boycott Target once they start the Back to School marketing.  

We recently took a day trip to Chisago City to visit my friend Susan and her husband Tom's family who has a cabin on a Lake.  Every 4th of July they come to visit from Colorodo.  Susan and I met in 6th grade and were best friends thru high school.  Susan is one of my closest friends and yet sometimes it is just this one visit per year that reconnects us.  During our visit, Susan and I had the chance to talk, laugh, visit while the kids played.  Susan has two boys, Zach and Cole who are Trev and Lexi's ages.  

Every year, this visit reminds me of how special these connections are, how valuable our relationships with friends from our childhood, high school and college are to the person we are today.   It reminds me that every person has such an impact and reason for being in our lives.

I want to reach out and thank everyone who I haven't called or visited in many years........

"True friends are never apart, maybe in distance, but not in heart" 

"A friend's hand is always there...you just have to reach out for it."