Good Friends

Another glorious day and we met our good friends Martha and Wendell and spent the whole day on the King Arthur Flour Store patio!  I met Martha 26 years ago while living in Vermont (a 3 month stay).  We each had one child and I joined a "play group" in order to get to know the other young moms in the area.  Sumner was her son Andrew's first love.  He was 18 months, she was 9 months.  Newly talking he would declare his love for her on a regular basis.  Living in Vermont and looking for jobs was hard, so we left to seek better opportunities but have remained friends over all this time.  We live about 3 hours away and try to get together at least once a year, usually in the middle.  They are the kind of friends that you feel you've known a lifetime and we can always pick up where we left off.  

The cafe was just inside for lunch and coffee and dessert later and the kitchen store is always fun to poke around in, but mostly it was just 8 hours of chatting and catching up on a beautiful summer day.