EVERLASTING FRIENDSHIP

When I taught school in Aiken,I taught for almost twenty five years.During those years,one of the teachers that taught with me,was Beth Lynn.She taught second grade,and had my daughter for a student,......."way back when." Another friend,Phyllis Ingram lived in New Holland,which was about twenty minutes away,and she drove her boys into school everyday. Our boys ranged in order of the oldest to the youngest........ Gordon;Chad;David;Steven;Chase;George;Kelly,Clay...Phyllis had Chad;Chase,and Clay....Beth had Gordon & Steven.I had David;George & Kelly....We became fast friends and started going to lunch together when she got out of school.It soon developed into suppers,and Christmas exchanges, and then we did weeekends on special occasions.We would go to the Outing Club and swim with our children and eat boiled peanuts....Yum! Was that ever fun!!!The year after my David died,Beth lost her son Gordon, so another bond was sealed between all of us.Some thirty years later we decided to celebrate this Christmas in a special way.These are very dear friends,and even though I'm not keen on driving all that way,I would do it for them.The nicest thing is,that we get to celebrate birthdays in Heaven together too!(If we have birthdays there!)
Becky