My Friends !!!!

I have never really tought about how wonderful my friends are.  I remember back when I was in High School my mom told me that the friends that I had then would probably not be in my life when I got older.  I never really thought about it.  I just thought she was crazy and these people would be there forever and I wasn't going anywhere so why wouldn't they be. 

A year later I found out my dad was being transferred in his job from Joplin to Springfield to run the main company.  This was the end of my Junior year of high school.  I had just made the Cheerleading squad and had became captain.  I was devastated that I would be spending my Senior year with people I didn't even know.  Well my mom made some huge sacrifices.  See my Popo aka. grandpa was very ill and she couldn't leave him because she was the closest child he had living near. 

So my parents sat me down and we came to an agreement that after selling there home in Joplin that they would rent a place and my mom would stay with me through the week and travel to Springfield on the weekends with my father.   So helping out my parents I decided to graduate school at the end of the semester and start college early.   It actually made since because I was very close to the class that graduated before me. 

So off to Springfield I went in December.  I enrolled in school at Southwest Missouri State University.  I took my general education class and I was going to Psychology.  I wasn't even 18 yet but sat down next to this guy named Ryan Climer.  He was a very nice looking guy.  Later we ended up having a project and we decided to be partners.  He came over to my house and asked me if I had a boyfriend.  I said no and he replied so I have a chance.   I never will forget that and neither will he.  We have been friends since than he is now married to one of my best friends Angela and have two wonderful boys and a little girl on the way.  My mom was right I do keep in contact with some of my old friends from back home but it is crazy how one life changing decision will bring you someone that will be in my life forever.