cool down.

On the hottest day, the day it was 95 degrees and we felt sticky in the shade, our friends came to visit. We threw out our ideas of heading to the lake because the very idea of getting into a car and actually driving somewhere sounded exhausting in the heat. And because there were 5 hot kids in tow. So we stuck around the house and filled up virtually everything we could find with water - 2 pools, a tub for toys, the water table and the slip and slide and let 'em go. We ventured inside for a cold smoothie dinner after awhile. I love these three visiting kids. When I see them I think back to my days of teaching together with Britt and looking down the long hallway at each other from our classroom doorways 7 times a day. I walked into that middle school 9 years ago and met one of my best friends. It took maybe two weeks before we were getting coffee together, having couples games nights at each other's houses and going on vacations. I took my pregnancy test for Parker in the school bathroom with Brittney standing outside the stall door. We went through pregnancies gained and pregnancies lost together. We went on epic vacations and had epic talks together. This girl knows me inside and out. We spent the first 6 months of Parker and Addie's life basically living together, holed up at my parent's cabin while our husbands were either far, far away or busy with work and going to school. I love her, her family and her children deeply. And now, with the chaos that life in general with children brings and living far apart, we see not nearly enough of each other. So I cherish these moments. The times when we do get to see each other and it easily slips back into a version of normal that we've always known. Where I know exactly what Britt is thinking and we know what to do to help each other and we can skip from conversation to interrupted conversation and make it back around again without missing a beat. I love this.