Hanging Out With "If It Takes A Whole Life"

There's a certain delight in finally meeting a long time blog friend in real life. It makes you want to party and dance.

Dew Drop and Clementine had just one day together, yet they managed to cram in as much best friend type stuff as they could- which included spontaneously deciding to take a bath together...

Supposedly taking a nap together (though there were giggles the whole time)...

and burying themselves in a leaf pile.

I sometimes feel sorry for husbands (and sons) of bloggers. It must seem so crazy and so pointless. I don't think guys have the need to communicate with each other the way most women do. I didn't feel sorry for these guys, though- it was too much fun and I sort of think they knew it.



Can we just pretend for one moment that my eyes are open? I'm posting this as proof of this epic meeting in real life. It needs to be documented.

Seriously, these girls have a strong friendship already. It was unbelievable to see. I kept asking myself why we hadn't gotten together sooner?

I'll congratulate myself for only now, this far into this post, finally uttering the only word that can describe these girls: *cuteness*

Chillin' in the pyramid.

I'd read Rachel's blog, "If It Takes A Whole Life, " since, well, forever basically. There's something so unbelievable about meeting a blog friend in real life. I can't really describe it. I think it's my favorite thing. I love it because it eliminates so much of the background talk that you have to do in order to make a new friend. We don't have to waste our time with all of that- I already know they were in Greece for 3 months (I was there too via their blog!), so we can jump directly from there into conversations all over the place that are meaningful and deep.
And with meeting a blog friend in real life, you already know that you are going to dig this person. And then your families dig each other and it starts feeling like you're going to know these wonderful
people
for a long time.

The morning after our epic day, I awoke with such a huge amount of gratitude to the universe for having new friends. Then, as I'm prone to do, I began to lament. I worried about how much time we've already missed. Why didn't we meet sooner? How could we have let this time lapse?
Think of all of the fun things our families could do together!
I'm just so thankful that we met when we did.
And I'm thankful that it didn't take a whole life.