Reach out and touch someone?

So, I am not sure if I missed some kind of memo or something about this being like 'National reach out and contact long lost friends week', but it was really wierd that two of my very good friends that I have unfortunately not kept in contact with got in contact with me.

Monday morning, after a week of vacation from work, I was reading through the 150 emails that I had missed at work. One of those emails was from Melanie, my sister-in-law saying that she had updated her facebook and it gave me the link to go see her profile. So I clicked on the link and logged in and I had like 3 new friend requests and a bunch of other stuff. I don't keep up my facebook stuff very often because, truth be known, I don't understand all of it so I just stick with blogger. So I am looking at the new friend requests and lo and behold, my good friend from High School found me. It was Annette. I haven't seen her since my wedding, 16 long years ago. Annette was one of the first people that befriended me at school when my life was totally uprooted. I had my friends at church, but at school it was just Jeremy and I (people actually thought we were dating becuase we were always together :-) ). I was glad to have a friend. I was so glad to hear from her. I am sad that I didn't think to look for her sooner, as we were just there in St. Louis in July and it would have been great to see her.

Then, Monday afternoon, I was checking my blog, (I know, I am way slackin') and I noticed that there was one more comment on the latest post than there was the last time I looked, and when I opened it the new comment was from another very good friend from St. Louis, Laura. She found my blog through Ben's blog, which she found through Kellie Fortner's blog, which she found through Cali Pope's blog. (I don't know Cali, but I know Kellie and she, too, is a good friend that I hope to get back in touch with). It hasn't been quite so long since I have seen Laura, but still, a long time. Laura was in our stake in St. Louis and again, it seemed like no time at all until we were friends. Every now and then I will see something, or hear something that brings back memories, but I never know how to get in touch with people.

I couldn't believe that in one day, I now have the opportunity to re-connect with people who mean a lot to me and who I will never forget.

I hope that maybe through these contacts, more might be found.

Love to all
Darci and Family