a weekend of remeniscing

Ive had so much fun this weekend, my friends Sarah and Kylie have both recently moved back nearby and miff, our friend that moved away around 9 years ago came to visit.

it was so great to get together, all three of these girls are like sisters to me. we had lots of giggly conversations of all the fun and funny times we have had over the years back when our home was a second home to them all.

reminiscing of mud sliding at a bike track down the road from mum and dads, movies that we used to watch together over and over, miffs various injuries, sneaky things that we thought our parents never knew about. we had a sleep over at mum and dads like old times and mum made everyones favourite spaghetti.
it was so much fun looking back on all the fun of our childhoods, reminding each other of little things that some of us had forgotten. we were so so sad that anneke (aka all of our big sister!!) couldn't make it but hope to do it again soon when she can!

we went for a walk around pt. Wakefield to show miff around


Kylie and Sarah relaxing on my couch



the wonderful miff, my walking to school buddy, eating way-too-much milo after school buddy.

i just remember school being all about 'fitting in' and being 'cool' but wed get together and do our own thing. none of that pretending to be a grown up junk, just getting outdoors, going on day long bike ride adventures to the beach, building cubby houses, climbing trees. I'm so glad that together we grew up slowly, made the most of everything, joked around plenty.

she always made me feel good about being myself, shes such a genuine honest person. we were both nervous to catch up after so many years (we've only recently started chatting on face book) but honestly, as soon as she got here we just all reconnected as though she had never left, she is still part of the family like back in the day.

we are now planing to organise a gathering of Joneses, miff, lindsay, kaia, callum (we met Lindsay years ago through miff) and i am ecstatic and hope it happens relay soon, these people lift me so high of the ground, all so soulful and real


Kylie laughing at Sarah.

ah my Kylie, we met in year 9 and had lots of school classes together. and we sure did make those classes fun. the classes we didn't have together were all about writing notes to swap and i always drew and painted her pictures. she was a big appreciator of my artwork (i loved art and was quite good at it) and I'm proud to say that even now, years after she moved out of her parents house my pictures are still proudly displayed all over her wardrobe.

most weekends we spent having sleepovers, getting together with friends, conning unsuspecting boys into letting us give them makeovers (which I'm pretty sure they secretly loved) and getting chips n gravy and orange and mango juice to share

we regularly snuck me onto her school bus (she lived the next town over) and hung out listening to music, bein silly, making goo messes.


bub/bubbles (sarah), mine and annekes little sister who's actually older than me but a little shorty (her and anneke look so alike that i think often people thought they were sisters)

id completely forgotten about the times when her mum would go away for the week and she would be adopted as one of us, it was so fun getting ready and going to school together, shed always get me to braid her hair.

we'd drag a mattress outside and do home work together (ok so gossip, giggle, make up code words to talk about our crushes so no one would know what we were on about, draw pretty pictures in each others page margins ((yes the teachers loved that)) and then wed fall asleep under the stars


adventuring

brekkie this morning, pancakes with berry apple and syrup.

oh and i brought home more apples. because theres nothing like apple crumble to end the great weekend well