Connection

This blog is called, Lor's Connection. This is also my 200th post. I can't believe it. I started this blog as a way to record happenings at home so my son, who was deployed at the time, and my daughter, who was working on the opposite coast line from home, could see what was going on at home. A way for me, the mommy birdie, if you will, to feel connected to my kids who were away from the nest and for the little birdies who were leaving the nest to feel connected. Maybe, it was a way for the mommy birdie's wings to feel longer...hmm. Yeah, maybe that's it. I needed to feel "connected" to my growing children.

Now, its 200 posts and 2 years later and those little birdies are now "home". They don't live in our little 1,000 sq ft home, but both the older 2 children live only 15 minutes away. In fact, they even live together. My daughter is now married, and to make it even better, is expecting a sweet baby next month. To protect her privacy, I have not posted about the wedding or pregnancy. And my son is renting a room from his sister and her husband. It is a relationship that happens to work. I love having my babes close again. For me, its I feel I have connection again to my family.

About the picture posted here. This is my best friend from high school. We were inseperable for several years. From high school and a few years later, we did everything together. I even lived with her and her parents for a time. Her parents were like my second set of parents. They fed me, gave me a room, and were there for me when I needed support.

Over the years, weddings, children, jobs, moves, and basically life, life has pulled us in different directions. We managed to maintaine a distant level of contact through it all and we never really... totally... lost connection. Now, I am so happy to report, decades later, we have re-connected! I feel like I have made contact with my sister, my blood relative.

How can that happen? That we lose touch with a beloved family member? I don't know. But it does happen. My life feels more complete now that my bestest friend in the whole world is back in my life!!

My friend and I are different in many ways. In fact, as different as night and day but we have that connection that brings us together. So, I will close this post saying that this post is confirming what this blog is all about, CONNECTION.