So, I was in Toronto and St. Catharines since Tuesday and I just arrived home.  I’m still thinking about my visit.  I have so much to tell and I will do this in two stages.  Tonight I’m going to talk about my friends!  Recently, five friends from the St. Catharines area visited me in warm Salchi Bay, Mexico.  What a feat to get five women to commit to a trip, book a ticket and get on a plane, especially when they are all really busy with families and work.  But they did it.  What you need to know is that I went to elementary school with four of those women, and three of us started kindergarten together.  I will use maiden names because that is how we remember each other. Maxine Giffin and J’neene Morris and myself started at Grapeview Public School forty-six years ago.   Michelle Romak and Karen Vine were two years behind us and I played a lot of sports with those two lovely ladies.  Our trip to Mexico was fantastic and I am so thankful for such good friends that have been in my life for such a long time.  Our bond is incredible.  Following our trip I ended up in St. Catharines to visit my mother (I will talk about her tomorrow in part two of this blog), and we women got together to reminisce about what fun we had in Mexico but we also talked about aging parents, our children, menopause and, of course, other friends from our elementary school and high school.  You know: Where did he/she end up?  And did you know that so and so was doing this?  That night of our dinner we were joined by another “Grapeview” girl, Brenda Patterson, who couldn’t join us in Mexico because she needed to stay home to help her parents out.  I feel so blessed to have these amazing friendships.   How many people have the chance to stay friends with kids they went to kindergarten with?

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