Best Friends Forever...

   Do you remember being little and having a different best friend every other day?  Oh how I wish I could go back to those days!  Running the streets with my little gang of 3rd graders...running from one park to another...stopping at the corner store to buy a pop and some candy before going home and getting grounded for a day or 2 for being 5 minutes late.  Those were the days!

   Dakota is 9 years old and going to the fourth grade!  He has a few friends in school but nothing outside of school since we live in the country.  There aren't many kids around where we live so it makes it hard.  He had 1 friend that came to stay at our house a few times but that friendship didn't work out.  He didn't want to do anything but play video games the whole time he was here and they just didn't mesh well.

   Baseball has been such a blessing!  Not only is Dakota doing so well in baseball this year but he is making new friends also!  The regular baseball season ended and we went in to tournament.  The tournament ended early for us because there was a fight between coaches.  Dakota went on to All-stars and there are a few kids on the team that were also on the regular season team.  Dakota and him are a little over a year apart but they get along great!

   One day after the game Dakota asked to go to his house for the first time and he had a great time!  He spent the night there two nights in a row!  I was very surprised because he has never stayed anywhere before!  He came home yesterday and went with them today for the night to go to a fish fry and then to see go-kart races tomorrow!  They have really become great friends!  I couldn't be happier!

   I remember getting my first best-friend when I was in first grade!  Her name was Elizabeth and she lived about 2 houses away from me!  I would wake up every morning before my parents woke and run down to her house!  I would stay there all day and come home at like 7 that night!  And repeat the next day!

   Good friends are hard to come by!  I have 1 true friend that I have had since the 6th grade! I am now 30 years old and me and her have never had even 1 fight!  We haven't seen each other years now but we talk on the phone regularly and we are still just as close as we were when we were together 24/7 back in the day!  I really hope that is they kind of friendship this one turns in to for Dakota!  He is a great kid and deserves it!