Today’s challenge is to post a picture of my longest friend.
So here it is. This is a picture of my longest friend, Sarah Elena Baby Girl Schneider. Otherwise known as shirt, sassy, supa sexy sistah #1 (who were we in middle school?). But commonly known as Sarah. She’s, without a doubt my longest and bestest friend.
According to me (Sarah claims I told her this when we were little), we actually knew each other before we were born because I told her that was used to call each other from inside our mom’s tummies. But the more believable story is that our mom’s introduced us when we were babies at Towamencin pool which is about ¼ mile in between each of our houses. I was born in November and she was born in May so we we met in the summer or 1987, we probably didn’t say much but it was definitely the beginnings of a beautiful friendship. In the picture above, we are about 3 years old and we are at a playgroup date to Merrymeade Farms with our older siblings.
As we grew, we did some ridiculous things: like try to climb a tree with ropes and get suspended in mid-air, got in a friendship-ending fight in 5th grade over the lip sync and Gary Cole, painted our friend’s entire hand with nail polish and many more things. One of my personal favorite stories is the time that Sarah said she would make me an alcoholic drink and, at the last second chickened out and made me a drink with like orange juice, tobasco sauce and other stuff so it tasted bad…but she still gave it to me, claimed it had alcohol in it and just told me alcohol tasted bad. So I sipped on it, convinced myself I was drunk and sent some messages on AIM that I’m not too proud of (ex: “oh em gee, I’m so drunk (enter guys name), this is crazy…..”. Not only was this embarrassing but I didn’t find out that I wasn’t really drunk till a few years later.
Sarah has been there for me through the ups and downs of life (she was even there for the first time I farted in front of a boyfriend….and after the fart I promptly left while everyone was laughing and drove home because I was so embarrassed hahaha) and I am so excited about all the things to come! We’ve been friends for over 20 years and now she is engaged!!! Woo hoo! Now Scott is stuck with me forever.
I could actually go on forever about how great my best friend is but I will stop at this. Sarah blew out the candles on my 3rd birthday cake and I hope she gets to blow out many many more to come!!! Love you best friend!!!
Jenny you are the most wonderful person in the whole world... well, it's an even split between you and my new fiance, Scott. How did I get such an awesome best friend? I can't wait until we're old ladies drinking tea on the front porch reminiscing about our years and years of memories! Think of all we've been through (first days of school, proms, ferret workshops, learning to drive/not kill a car full of friends) and all that is to come (engagements, weddings, children, senior citizen rates). No matter what, we have each other!
ReplyDeleteHi Alex!