This weekend was my 15th year reunion. Planning for the event fell very last minute, so we were not able to reach all of our classmates. Turnout, given the circumstances, was not bad, and actually made for a more comfy gathering. The neat part of these gatherings is to see how much we have all changed and shifted priorities. The majority of those that attended had children, and it was amazing to see how much those little tiny faces resembled their parents. It was like staring at our junior high year book. All of the kids gelled so well together and parents really just provided peripheral supervision while we chatted about memories from school, careers, and raising children. The one thing I took away was that 15 years after high school, every last remnant of the divisions between us had disappeared, and for our children, those division have yet to exist for many more years...On that playground, there was no cool group, no jocks, no nerds, only old and new friends. And we wonder why high school seemed so tough! I'm still never sure I still know what group I belonged to. That is a strange phrase! "belonged too". A great evening with great people though.
I snapped a few great candids of the kids tonight. I just fell in love with this picture of Jack and Caleb. They are best buds, and almost every day care story retold on the car ride home unravels around Jack. Caleb has missed him terribly this summer while he wasn't at daycare. Sydney played hard tonight. She is such an independent little spirit. I counted about 23 continuous loops from the ground, stairs, platform, and slide before she finally took a rest on the ledge.
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