From Purple Rain to Pitch Perfect....the stuff memories are made of

So as I sit here tonight, sipping my delicious Spanish red wine, I can't help but smile at the memories being made in my house tonight! I often talk about my daughters and how alike they are, yet really, they are very different. Perhaps it is the living conditions around our home that is different. Unlike my oldest's teenaged/high school years, where we walked on eggshells and there was an uncomfortable heaviness/tension in our home, my youngest's is the exact opposite. We are like the revolving door of sleepovers, swimming friends, and all things kids in the summer months! I'm a sucker for a good sleepover. I do everything in my motherly power to make Erika's sleepovers like those I remember in my own teenaged years. 

Growing up in our sleepy little town, there were four of us who rotated the sleepover nights; Pam, Bim, Hx2, and myself, although sleeping over at Hx2's house was always the best!! I should mention that Hx2 and I have been friends since PreSchool, when we were like 4 years old!! It has honestly been a friendship that has withstood the tests of time, and although we haven't seen each other in a few years, she is still one of the first friends I turn to for advice or just to share some exciting news with!   She had the coolest house and it was always fun hanging around there (and I still think her house was haunted!!!)! Many of my preteen/early teenaged memories find their roots at Hx2's house!! I've watched many quirky movies while consuming gross amounts of pickles at her house!!! Some 30 years later, the words "Margaret, I warned you not to be here!" elude me as far as the name of the weird movie we watched!!!! But, the best movie watching adventure I remember having with Hx2 was being young teens and watching Purple Rain! At the time, we probably should NOT have watched that movie, but gosh darn it, whenever I hear Purple Rain I have an incredible urge to phone or text my oldest, dearest, bestest friend in the world and let her know....without fail!!!

Back to the present....as Erika and her friend are holed up in her air conditioned bedroom watching Pitch Perfect (a GREAT movie, by the way) after making some sort of strawberry dip thing (which was delicious might I add), I can't help but hope that these sleepover nights result in text messages when they are in their upper 30's/early 40's as a little gesture of, "I just heard this song, I'm thinking about you and I remember...."

Hx2 is truly my oldest, dearest, bestest friend!!!! I'm thankful for the memories.......