How We Met

Looking at our friendship from the perspective of an outsider, it would seem that it should've been inevitable. Unfortunately it took us a long time to realize it at first.

Our story doesn't really begin until September of 2005 but if we begin at the beginning like all good stories it would start in the year 2003. It was that year that Sondra joined the child development center (further known CDC) where we all eventually met. Sondra was all alone until September 2005 (not really, there are some other wonderful people at the CDC) when I joined her. We shared a suite and both closed our classrooms. Many laughs were shared and eventually I moved next door and joined Sondra's team, and our friendship grew deeper.

Fastforward until September 2006 and Nicole becomes employed at the CDC. Sadly Nicole was in a different area of the building and it took until September of 2007 when Sondra left our classroom and created a new team in a new classroom that we found out what a cool girl Nicole really was. Sondra and Nicole became fast friends, Sondra even being in Nicole's wedding. And because of my friendship with Sondra I was able to also cultivate a friendship with Nicole.

Now, the only person missing was Megan. Megan joined our company in June 2007 but didn't come to our CDC until 6 months later in December. Megan shared a suite with Nicole and Sondra and slowly their friendship developed as well. And once again, I became a friend by association.

And our friendships have been with strife and beat the odds. But the strife came from an outside source, who will remain nameless for the protection of the innocent :) Sadly enough, initially Sondra and I thought Nicole didn't like us and then, well I believe we thought the same thing about Megan. Sad but true. Eventually though, nature took its course and people that were destined to be friends, became friends.

It's to be anticipated that 4 women, beautiful inside and out (at least to me) who share many common interests would become friends. But like all great (love) stories, love at first sight is flighting while relationships that build slowly grow into something remarkable.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shock of adveristy before its entitled to the appelation.

-George Washington

Eventually Nicole left the CDC to become a librarian (one of our common interests is an insatiable passion for books and reading) and returned once a week or so to help out. And then the arrival of my son turned me into a stay-at-home-mom. Surprisingly, removing half of us from the CDC didn't deter our friendship. If anything, its made it stronger. Because now, rather than seeing each other daily (though Sondra and Megan are lucky enough to do that) we have to work to see one another, call each other on the phone or send emails. And the effort to do that, makes our friendship that much sweeter.

Now, our friendship will be documented here; depicting our exploits in learning to live a greener, more natural life and of course chronicling our ever changing lives and friendship.

A friend may be well reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson