On The Porch Swing With Rach...

Chillin' with my Buddy
Originally uploaded by peachicken.

This is one of my dearest friends, Rachel Holohan. Rach and I have grown up together; we've shared everything from barbie dolls to religion. She is like a sister to me. We can sit together and reminisce about "the good ole days" when life was simple and we lived two doors down from each other. We can even talk about the difficult times, like about evil stepfathers or tragic deaths. Through the thick and the thin, we've been there for each other, almost like a marriage of two souls! She is definitely, as Anne of Green Gables would say, my "kindred spirit."
Rachel is moving this September to South Africa, a whole continent away. She and her husband plan on being there for quite a while. This will be one of those hard times. But I can't wait till the day when we are old and sitting back on my porch swing, (she will live two doors down again) chatting about the "good ole days" when life was simple and when life was hard, and how our friendship lasted through all of it.