What a treat!
Today I got to visit with one of my best friends from high school – Kerry. Her husband had to travel to Vermont for a business conference, so we made plans to meet in Bennington, VT which was on their way to Albany to catch a flight back to California.
Kerry and I met our freshman year of high school, were cheerleaders together, had classes together, hundreds of sleepovers and hours in the gym working on our tumbling skills. Kerry made much better grades than I, but I think I had the edge in gymnastics. (Hee Hee, only kidding – that one’s for Pat, our coach, who pitted us against each other for the sake of bettering our individual performances!) Kerry was and is one of the friendliest, most positive and encouraging people I’ve ever known. Her sweet notes from the 1980’s until today have been a continual source of blessing to me. She was voted homecoming queen and “Best All-Around” our senior year – 1988 – so I definitely was not the only recipient of this kindness. She was loved by all.
Today I got to visit with one of my best friends from high school – Kerry. Her husband had to travel to Vermont for a business conference, so we made plans to meet in Bennington, VT which was on their way to Albany to catch a flight back to California.
Kerry and I met our freshman year of high school, were cheerleaders together, had classes together, hundreds of sleepovers and hours in the gym working on our tumbling skills. Kerry made much better grades than I, but I think I had the edge in gymnastics. (Hee Hee, only kidding – that one’s for Pat, our coach, who pitted us against each other for the sake of bettering our individual performances!) Kerry was and is one of the friendliest, most positive and encouraging people I’ve ever known. Her sweet notes from the 1980’s until today have been a continual source of blessing to me. She was voted homecoming queen and “Best All-Around” our senior year – 1988 – so I definitely was not the only recipient of this kindness. She was loved by all.
And here we are on an outing to a quaint Texas town – Fredericksburg. I don’t remember the exact year. I’m guessing ’87 or ’88?Kerry and her family were a huge blessing to me during my high school years. Her mother would bring us iced Crystal Light lemonade in covered Tupperware cups when she picked us up from gymnastics. And once she bought a half gallon of Blue Bell coffee ice cream and delivered it to me after school wrapped in two paper sacks. She did this simply to bless me after I had dinner with her family and raved about the dessert – Blue Bell coffee ice cream! I learned a great deal about family by watching theirs – a great deal about motherhood by watching hers.
Now, Kerry is a busy Mom of three adorable boys, and will run her first half marathon in a couple of weeks!
Best wishes! Love you and miss you lots! 1 and a half hours was not enough!
(*Sat. Oct. 6 – edit – upon further investigation of hairstyles 🙂 , I now believe the above pic was from 1986 – we were both 16!)
Wow you two are gorgeous! And I mean the more recent photo, not the high school one! Although the hair is quite fetching… So glad you got to see Kerry. She is so sweet and I remember wishing that I could be a part of the O’neill fam!
Fetching???? Fetching men? Fetching what exactly?
When the kids saw this picture and the others that came out while traveling memory lane they said, “Mom, what happened to your bangs here??? They’re huge!” OK – so the hairstyles were bad, but the music was good!
From the Dictionary:
fetch·ing [fech-ing] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA
–adjective
charming; captivating.
It’s a compliment!
Oh!!!! I like that!!! A bit of an exaggeration, maybe, but I’ll take it!