Road Trip!

Whew! Nola and I had an extremely fun big girls' day today. Nola's "first friend" Ella and my friend Heidi were visiting the grandparents in Connecticut and we decided to take a road trip up to see them. It was a busy day - left PA at 9 am and were back home at 10:30 pm. Good thing Nola's a GREAT traveling companion!

Here's why we made the effort....
Heidi is a dear friend of mine from my graduate school days. We both got our MSEd at the same time, AND Heidi hooked me up with a very lucrative waitressing job that paid the bills while I attended school full time. We ended up interning in the same school district, then were roommates for a brief time before we BOTH decided to move out to San Francisco. Can you tell we have a lot in common??

When it came time to reproduce, both Heidi and I had our first baby girls within 2 months of each other. As a result, the girls were quite regularly thrown together on playdates so Heidi and I could enjoy a visit together. Sadly, Nola doesn't remember any of this (we moved away just after she turned 2), but she definitely knows that Ella was her "first friend" and was looking forward to seeing her again on this trip.

Baby Friends - just a few days after Nola was born

Toddler Friends - shortly after Nola turned 2 and right before we moved away from CA

Kindergarten Friends - Yay! We meet again!