It's been three years since we saw Patti and Tom, our long lost but now found friends from Ohio.
We met Patti and Tom when we first moved to Elkhorn.
We lived in the same apartment building and Patti was the one person in that apartment full of teen moms that I could relate with.
Our friendship was fast and furious and our husbands became fast friends, too.
We spent two great years together making memories before we moved back home to Watertown and they moved back home to ElyrIa, Ohio.
We both went on to have two daughters and we really did keep in touch until the girls were in high school.
We would either go to Ohio or they would come to Watertown or we would meet in the middle.
These get togethers were always fun. Our kids got along famously, too.
But somewhere around 1990 we lost touch with each other.
No one was to blame.
Life just happened and we got busy and we forgot to write or call.
Fast forward to 2011 when Patti found me right here on this blog!
We contacted one another and fell right back into our friendship as if no time had passed.
We made arrangements to meet in Indiana. We had a wonderful time and caught up on all the life we had missed.
Our friendship and love for one another was greater than ever.
We met again in 2012 and vowed to never let years go by again.
In 2014, we each brought our two oldest granddaughters with us to Indiana and they had a great time, too.
Then, three years passed and we did not see one another
.Thanks to Facebook we stayed in touch though and this last Thursday Patti and Tom came up to visit us in Wisconsin.
I planned and cleaned and waited for their arrival and all of a sudden, it was over.
The time was short but the friendship is so big!
We has so much fun making some new memories on this last visit.
We ate Wisconsin brats and cheese curds, we took a boat ride on the Milwaukee River, we ate Mexican, we played cards, we talked for hours on end, we had breakfast together and then is was time to say good bye.
I loved having them here at our house.
I miss them.
I cannot wait to see them again and it will not be three years from now!
Here are some photos from the weekend visit:
Here are a few photos from some of our other meetings over the years.
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As soon as Patti and Tom left, Alissa, Courtney, and Soliana arrived.
Tizita and Paul were camping in the wilderness of door county.
Alissa, Mallory, and Courtney had just had a cousin night in Oshkosh and now they were coming out to spend time with us.
We had a wonderful few days.
On Saturday night John, Lissa, Courtney, and I went out for a few beers.
Gigi stayed with Soliana. When we got home, Soli was watching TV and Gigi was asleep on the couch, too funny!
On Sunday, Alissa left and we just played with Soli all day long.
We played Day care, drove the escalade, and played games.
It was perfect.
Today, Monday, Courtney, Tiz and I headed to Oconomowoc to explore and have some fun.
We started out at Imagination Station.
Then on to Fowler park for a picnic.
We walked around Fowler Lake and ended up at the Children's Play Gallery.
We had so much fun.
We then had ice cream and shopped at St. Vinny's.
A perfect, perfect day.
Here are a few photos:
Oh, so fun.
Oh, so many happy memories.
