so many years but still the same

Isn't it funny that your parents can be friends with people or grow up with certain people and automatically their kids become your friends. With no questions asked you're connected to them from then on out.

My mom knows just about everyone in Nashville. Through the years she has maintained a lot of friendships and one that is very dear to her is an old Harpeth Hall classmate. Who would have thought that 20 years later their daughters would reconnect at a summer camp and realize all the younger years they had spent together.

Sally Anne and I wouldn't have recognized one another from anyone else standing around. It had been at least seven years since the last time we had seen one another. Last summer as fate would have it we both worked at Camp Ozark in Mt. Ida, Arkansas. There were far too many coincidences for us not to know one another and then it clicked. Since then it has been just as our mothers were and still are... uniquely and forever attached. She shares the same quirky passion for life and our faith as I do. Every time we see one another it's like we pick up right where we left off. For instance today, we sat in the Green Hills Starbucks just smirking at the characters that ran through to get their daily fix. It was like we had just left camp last summer where we spent every waking and strenuous moment together. There aren't many people who know every in and out of you and your family and still can just accept you for what you are. Sally Anne has always been that and I know she genuinely will never be any different. What if our moms hadn't attended their all girls school together back in the day? There would be no Sally Anne and I.

It may seem like just another friendship. We all have them, but to me Sally Anne is different. Yes our mothers are close and so on, but we don't have to be. I can sit here today and know that she will be there for every monumental event in my life and she will still be the beautiful person inside and out that she is today. There's no one like her and for that I'm so blessed that she's in my life. From birth to Amy Grant concerts then Mt. Ida for camp adventures and now just doing life together, Sally Anne is a piece of my heart I will never forget.