Old Friends

Yesterday in the mail I received a Priority Mail envelope stuffed to the gills with buttons. My dear friend Marie had sent them to me. We have been friends since 1986ish and were roommates in the Army. When she entered my 'world' I had my own room in the barracks and I wasn't too happy that someone was going to be encroaching on my space. =) Another friend had told me, 'Cheer up kiddo, she will probably become your best friend." Well, 20 years later we laugh at how I didn't want her to be my room mate.

(Is it kind of ironic that as I type this post the song 'Old Friends' is playing on my computer from the Gaither Homecoming CD.)

Old Friends, after all of these years, just old friends,,,
Through laughter and tears, Old friends
What a find! What a priceless treasure....
Old friends, like a rare piece of gold,
My old friends, makes it great to grow old, Old Friends
Through it all I will hold to old friends.

As time passes we know why God sends some people into our life to strengthen, inspire, and to enrich our lives!

Thank You Marie!

Buttons from a dear friend!

Nancy Bartholomew Fink said,

"You can have the shirt off my back- but you can't have the buttons. "

On the contrary...
A few years ago I was visiting with a dear friend and I commented about the buttons on her jacket. I also mentioned that when she decided to get rid of the jacket I would love to have those buttons! They were Caesar's Cameo on a red background.

Fast Forward to last month when we were in the States and she told me she had something for me...

Aren't they cool? =)