Ode to a Wonderful Friendship!!!

Today my really good friend Lins went to the hospital to have her little baby boy, Daniel. I'm too excited for words and decided to do a little post about how much I love my little Lins and how it was that we met.  People always ask how it was you met your spouse or your current love interest but very seldom ask about how you came to be friends with someone who would seemingly be kind of a mismatch as a friend. You know, it's obvious when you see to chicks about the same age at about the same stage in life, like they're newly married or seriously involved... maybe one is having a baby and the other is contemplating it... well you may just assume they were college roommates or whatever. Or there may be the kids who grew up on the same street, went to the same schools and have remained close ever since.

Lins and I are eleven years apart in age, she is young, pretty and very much a loving, giving person. I on the other hand am older, chubby to the max (I hate to say fat but I am) and come across as reserved and snarky. This has in no way ever affected our friendship. She told me on the day we met that she had an older friend about my age, it was like she was telling me it was OK to be my friend and that she wasn't ashamed to be seen with me. LOL. We met at the Bank where I went to work when we first moved to Thomasville so I can honestly say she is one of the people I have known for the longest in this town. She is loyal, trustworthy and completely on my page... be it a rather crumpled, wierd and whacky page, she totally gets me!!! One of Lins' qualities that sticks in my head is her enthusiam to share, she was training me to take over her position because she was moving to another branch and she held nothing back. If I asked a question she'd light up and say "OK, here's how you do this" and "this is what happens, you can do this, or that, or whatever", never once did she roll her eyes, tsk, or make me feel like I was burdening her.. and that's how it still is to this very day. She's no longer at the Bank and doesn't have to train me but she is very much my go to person in times of need!!! And I hope I am the same for her.... good luck today Lins, I am here for you on this journey into Motherhood and can't wait to meet Daniel whom I know will be totally gorgeous!!!!

OK... update... before I even got this post edited and out for your enjoyment, little Daniel sprang into the world and I've only seen a little pic on my phone but he looks adorable!!!! Hip Hip Hooray... I love happy days like this!!!!!! I can't wait to spoil this little boy, and let my kids mold him into the perfect little monster just like them!!