Saturday, October 4, 2008

you cannot relive the past....

This weekend I celebrated my 20th Highschool Reunion. I know, 20 YEARS! YIKES! I do not feel that old! ha! The tickets to this event were QUITE expensive, $125.00 a person. For a family of 7 & 4 of the 7 being just babies it was tough justifying the expense. This is a once in a lifetime thing & I really wanted to go. SO we scraped up the money for 2 tickets. I had intended on dragging Michael to this. Especially since he had graduated from the same school 4 years before me. However his brother Bucky's wedding was this weekend & in the end he lucked out by attending the rehearsal dinner as I went by my lonesome. )= I so wished he could have been there but it was not to be. I still keep in contact with a few of my friends from highschool. In fact my friend Debbie, aka Debs, helps watch the babies when I go in to work. She is such an AMAZING friend! I arranged to meet up with her & her hubby Jim at the 1st nights event, "Happy Hour" by the pool. They held this at a local hotel in downtown Ft Lauderdale. Mind you this was not an ordinary "Happy Hour", a normal margarita on the rocks was $13.00! Can you believe a drink would cost that much!? You can tell I do not get out that much! LOL! I begrudgingly paid for it. The things you pay when attending a reunion! NEVER again! I did not know how I would feel about seeing these friends from over 20 years ago. It was funny how the names & faces just come to you as if it was yesterday. That was strange! Quite a few people came to this reunion compared to the 10 year. What I find SO interesting is how people have changed especially the men & their hair!! There were a lot of receding hairlines! God has not been good when it comes to men & their hair. LOL! However, there were a few that did not change one bit! Funny how that works! I actually had a great time seeing everyone. People came from all over the country. Hopefully I can stay in contact with a few. I must say that the babies were the talk of the night. People could not believe that I had quadruplets or how I manage taking care of 4 when they cannot handle their 1 or 2, yadda yadda yadda.. It was the same dropped jaws & blank expressions we get from most people. I guess God knew that I could handle them. I shared some photos I brought of Dustyn & the babies. Poor Michael, I did not have a picture of him. However, I shared many a story about him to make up for it! I am really glad that I went since we would were not able to attend the dinner on Sat. In an ideal world I would have liked to be able to be able to do it all. Rehearsal dinner, Happy Hour, Reunion dinner, Wedding.. In the end I was able to experience part of my reunion & attend Bucky's wedding. We had fun all around. I was bummed but I made the most of it! Thinking back over these past 20 years I am SO happy to be where I am right now, to be a wife, a "bonus" mom and a mommy to my 4 little miracles. It was great seeing everyone but ...



you cannot relive the past....



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