Amy, this one's for you!

Excuse the beer, jean dress, and weird expresssion (although they probably all have to do with each other).

I've read a lot of posts lately about best friends, people that inspire you, long lasting friendships...

We'll, I've got a friend that fits all the above. My friend Amy.

I'm not a great writer (Amy is), but I'll try to do this story justice.

I met Amy the first week of college in Wisconsin. She lived across the hall from me in an all girls dorm. Having come from an all girls high school, I wasn't worried about living there cuz from my high school experience, I figured I'd meet a ton of "bad girls who knew how to party." (Yes, all-girls catholic school is as much the cliche that you'd expect, at least mine was.) Well, Amy was difinitely not bad, and DEFINITELY didn't know how to party. I taught her how to smoke her first cigarette and she clouded up the back of her glasses with the smoke...hillarious!

She was smart, serious, listened to british bands (before they were trendy, which made her strange) and mature beyond her years... I was the weird, blond girl from California that wanted to skip western civ, party and make out with boys. I don't know why, but for me it was love at first sight! I tried to corrupt her, she tried to keep me on the straight and narrow.

We stayed super tight all 4 years of school.

We're still BFFs 17 (yikes) years later.

We've definitely both cleaned up our act (me moreso...).

We both married our college boyfriends.

We both love big families - although she has me beat with 5 babies!

We're both catholic - she's better than me now (although I have more years in catholic school).

And, we're both bloggers!

And although I live in California and she's in Indiana, I still feel like she's across the hall.

Stop by her blog...she blogs about living with Juvenile Diabetes. Her 3 yr old was recently diagnosed and she's learning how to incorporate Diabetes into her everyday life with 5 kids.