Some of my Favorite

"A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself" -Jim Morrison

I agree.

A friend should want you to be yourself. I used to think that if I liked and agreed with my friends, they would like me. But one day, I stop and found out that people like it when you are truly yourself. Everyone is special in there own way. My friends and I just happen to be more on the insane side of things.

In this blog post I am going to talk about 3 of my favorite friends that I got to see recently. Gloria, Emma and Sariah. Pleas read on, they are some of my favorites for a reason.

This is Gloria. She is 11 years old. She homeschools with us. She is in the 5th grade. She is my sister. My favorite thing about Gloria is her laugh. It's a full body laugh, she literately quakes when she laughs, which is quite a bit. I love her.

NO!

This a great picture of Gloria because it captures the personality of Gloria. Happy.

One of my favorite memories of Gloria happened just recently. We had just finish taking pictures in our backyard and she turns to me and says "Nancy, Can I pick this flower?" She was pointing at this great big purple flower in my garden. After some consideration, I agreed. She promptly plucked it, smelt it, and then started pick off the petals. Immediately, I was disgusted, that was a flower I had worked hard in planting, watering and growing, how dare she destroy it! Then, I realized that it was no big deal and she looked so happy, I couldn't stop her. She looked up from flower and saw my face, "What!?" she asked defensively. I had forgotten to wipe my face of disgust and smile. "Nothing, I was just thinking." I reply swinging her in to a hug.

This is Emma. She isn't homeschooled. She is a sophomore. She is my sister. My favorite thing about Emma is that she completely and totally accepts me for who I am. I love her.

Emma and I acting cool several years ago

One of my favorite memories of Emma happened ages ago. It was when she still lived in Edwardsville. We went over to her house after church, this is when I still didn't know her very well and thought she was weird. We ended up watching Fairytopia. For those of you who don't what Fairytopia is Google it, then you'll understand how little we were. Afterward, we somehow convinced her dad to make us fairy wings. So we spent the rest of the day flying around her house, giggling and placing magic potions of her family.

This is Sariah. She isn't homeschooled. She is a freshman. She is my sister. My favorite thing about Sariah is how crazy she is, because I can let out all my crazy and not feel bad. I love her.

One of my favorite memories of Sariah happened a bit ago. It was at Emma and Sariah bowling birthday. For some reason, we decided we could no longer have normal hair-dos, we had to have crazy hair-dos. We just went a little crazy, which happens quite a lot. We are cray-cray. Not only are Sariah a wee bit crazy, she is also so thoughtful. She really listens and loves through what your going through. I can't go more then a few days without seeing her.

I got to see these Emma and Sariah today, I guess now yesterday. We met up at Forest Park and had a picnic. We talked, listened to music, put our feet in the streams, and loved on each other. I am so close to these girls it didn't matter if we talked or not. We belted out songs, talked to strangers (just like our parents told us not to), and ate chocolate chip cookies. It was an overall fun day. I love you girls!