Day 4: Sara Kehoe

Goose!! My best-good friend!! I tell you what, this chick has seen it ALL with me. I can’t even put our friendship into words, but I’ll try, haha. We met in the eighth grade, in Mrs. Grimes’s Spanish class. I talked to her to avoid talking to my first “boyfriend” after he “cheated” on me (gotta love teenage drama!), but we weren’t really friends then. Just Spanish-class acquaintances and fellow “I hate this class” students. In ninth grade, we both found ourselves in Home Ec with a room full of kids we didn’t know or like very well, so we were relieved to see a friendly face. Thus started a friendship that is one of the best things in my life to this day.

I tend to be a little dramatic at times (no surprise there, right?), and have had a big fight with pretty much every person I’ve ever known. Except Sara. We have disagreed on plenty of things over the years, of course. But we have never really FOUGHT about anything. When we know the other is upset about something, we know that if we give each other a little space that the upset person will come around and it will be discussed calmly. I have always found it strange that we do this, because it’s not something I do with any other person. This year marks 13 years of being friends, and God couldn’t have put a better person in my life for that role. Like I said…there are plenty of things we disagree on. And we very often roll our eyes at each other’s actions/words. But we love each other. Sara is family to me, now and forever. We have shared a love of *NSYNC that will never fully die, we have gone on a road trip just to see a concert, we have danced along with other friends in empty parking lots to music blaring from the car, we got hyper from smoothies at Smoothie Paradise in Richardson Square Mall, we convinced her mom to accept that it was perfectly fine that we were seeing that Madonna and Rupert Everett movie over the Elmo movie our 9th grade year, we have shared frustrations about our jobs and our families, we have kept Target and CiCi’s in business, we have pretended to shop blind at Target (don’t ask, haha), we have had so many inside jokes we can’t even REMEMBER half of them most of the time, we really only like going to The Olive Garden with each other, and she has dibs on my CD collection if I die before she does. She’s been with me through it all. She was the maid of honor at my wedding (a job that required helping me go to the bathroom in my dress at one point, HELLO!!).

Sara, my life certainly wouldn’t have been the same without you. I can be silly around you, we can talk about things like politics and religion and other heated topics without judging each other, and I know you put up with a lot. We made the transition from angsty teens to adults and still remained friends. We may not get to hang out as often as we once did, but I know we both know that doesn’t change anything. I LOVE THE CRAP OUT OF YOU!!!!! =)

I have to make a special mention of the other third of my close circle of friends: Robyn Randall. And her husband, Jordan. Robyn and I were friends through Sara in school, sadly never super close. When she came back after going to college in Oklahoma, though, we’ve become better friends. Robyn and Sara are my best girlfriends, we hang out at CiCi’s and The Melting Pot as often as we can. Robyn introduced me to Stephanie, my FABULOUS hair dresser who has changed my hair-life forever! Robyn was as helpful as anyone else on my wedding day, and her husband videotaped our ceremony and parts of our reception, as well as parts of our wedding shower, at no charge. Andrew and I BOTH are blessed to call them friends, we love them so much!! I’m so glad to have Robyn and Jordan as friends!! Love both so much!!