So Heather's dream for a dance party got me thinking. There was a time when one of us said something like this: "We should get together every Christmas and go away together so we can go to Indian Lake (which is love!) where there are flowers and music and dance parties and ponies! We will be together forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever..."
Flash forward to reality. TWO Christmases have gone by and this has not happened. Our annual trip has happened exactly one time, making it annual nonetheless, but also biannual, triannual, and a number of other "ual's," like never actUALly happening again, and intellectUALly puzzling since we're all such good friends.
I'm not sure what our excuse was in 2009, but after the 2010 Christmas of insanity for me and traveling for Hannah and limited time for Heather and being-the-only-stable-one for Kate, I think we can pretty much push meeting every Christmas as a foursome out of the picture.
Don't let this grim outlook get you down, though. The backdrop of this sisterhood is much more vibrant than the puce-y Cleveland skies. Especially since I just so happen to be a inferno for blazing ideas right now.
Here's my thought. Since Christmas gets crazy with two married beadies trying to appease families and all the other hullabaloo, and since it's kind of rude to Jesus, not to mention tacky, for us to schedule our own separate party on HIS birthday, I'm thinking we need to invent another holiday. Yep. Beady Beady day, or Beady Beaday for short.
I'm thinking that this new national (and by national I mean secret to essentially everyone but us) holiday could be used annually for us to actUALly get together. AnnUALly.
Beady Beaday doesn't have to stay the same date every year, it could float around like Easter (even though frankly I still don't understand why the most important day in the Christian year has yet to find a home). But whatever qualities we choose to attribute to this day, I think it would be wise of us to somehow squeeze into our lives a special time each year to spend a weekend together. Maybe I've just heard too many fantastical stories of best friends meeting up every year for the rest of their lives, but regardless, I say we go for it. Otherwise, who knows where the wiles of life will pull us? I know we can't know that no matter what, but I'd like to at least be able to be certain of our enduring friendship.
So for now, I don't really have a suggested date, place, or anything else detail-y about this. (Let's be honest, Kite is the details lady.) But my thoughts and my longings for dance parties and sisters had a baby, and this is what came out. Wow. I need to not write any more.
Thoughts?
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YES YES YES.
I don't care how up in the air my life is. I think this needs to happen in the next 6 months. Period.
What if we made it intersect with Hannah's Spring Break...? Just a thought.
Ugh. I would so much love this I can't even describe to you. Yea yea! Somewhere around my spring break seems very reasonable, and not so far away! : )
Dang it! I was about to comment with a very enthusiastic RSVP, but I see that someone has very mercifully taken me off the Beady roster.
YES. I approve. Hannah, when is your spring break? My job is pretty flexible so I can plan a long weekend if I know enough ahead of time.
Umm I'm not 100% on when my spring break is at the moment. I'll find out when I get home in a couple days and let you all know. : )
My job is pretty flexible, too. Of course, that's because I don't have one... I agree that we should plan around Hannah Grace. :) Your Spring Break is March 13-20 by the way. I just looked it up on the interweb. Come on, sister. Get with the times.
Well, in relation to my post (above) I will say that I am still waiting to know what my work situation will be like. I don't know if taking a LONG weekend will be an option, but taking a weekend should be.
So, I was toying with the idea of either finding a cabin or lodge or someplace along lake michigan, OR we could actually hit up Chi-town. Or, if anyone else has any thoughts.... I'm just trying to think of places semi close to all of us. We could just storm Grand Rapids, but I think it's a bit far for Heather.
Elisa, one...I of course knew I could look it up. Maybe I didn't want to think about even glancing at my school's website yet. Huh? Huh? I still have till monday! Let me have my Saturday and Sunday! lol. Annnd youuu are the one who just called it the "interweb". That sounds veryyy much behind the times. ; )
As far as a place we could meet goes, is Chi-town actually closer for you Heathie? I mean, I suppose you could megabus there. But I feel like if we go there, Kite, we're going to be hard pressed to find reasonably priced housing. Matt said we could use our apartment and he'll get lost, so that's a thought. ;) But I like the Lake Michigan idea. What's a good halfway point between Cleveland and MN?
Oh, yep. It does look like Chicago is about halfway. Still, I think we'd have to meet at least slightly outside of it.
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