jim and emily

we spent our weekend with jim and emily.  it's one of our absolute favorite things to do, be with them.  oh my goodness the laughter between the four of us.  and  i love watching josh and jim.  they crack me up.  their bff'ness makes my heart happy.  my husband had been a lot of years without a best friend.

jim makes up for all those years josh didn't have someone to hang out with.

emily used to blog too.  i read her blog for a few months before ever commenting but knew by what she wrote that our families could definitely be friends.  it was fun to find out they only lived a few hours from us.  one day i commented on a post of hers and through doing that she started to read my blog too.  it wasn't long before we decided to meet up and it wasn't long after meeting that we made plans for a camping trip.  a camping trip where i laughed too loud and talked too much and was pretty sure that was the end of our friendship.  apparently not.  there's a bond between our families that i will forever be thankful to God for.  there's a closeness, an understanding, a love, an appreciation - i'm getting emotional just thinking about them and us and the last five and a half years of friendship.  it's just good.  it's really really good.

these are friends that we are doing life with.  we get together just to get together.  and then we get together when it's time to roll up our sleeves and do dirty work.  many projects in my house is evidence of this.  jim has been by josh's side through so many of the projects in our house.  many that couldn't have been done without him.  and emily has kept me sane through said projects.  she has made me laugh when i wanted to just burn this place to the ground. she has given up hours of time with her husband so he could be with mine.

there are friends you hang out with just to have fun.  and there are friends you hang out with where you make whatever you are doing together fun.

we know the little quirks about each other and we don't love each other in spite of them, we love each other for them.  we can be our raw, ugly, messy selves and it is okay.  it is good.  there's a safety net in our friendship.

they are the people that no matter the day or time we know we could call if we needed them and they would be there to help us because they have been there to help us.

i know friendship like this is rare.  so i will hold them close and be forever thankful.