AHHH...we meet again! This is my friend Cheri Petroski. I met her in New York as I was traveling to Denmark to be an exchange student in 1989. She was also going to Denmark on exchange with the same company I was going with (YFU - Youth For Understanding). We became fast friends and spend the next week at our language and traditions camp talking, hanging out, and struggling to learn what little Danish we could in a week.
Cheri's host family was on the same island as mine so we were happy to be close to each other. While in Denmark we stayed in touch and even went to each other's houses a time or two. Cheri was there for a year while my exchange was only for 6 months. When I left we stayed in touch and continued to do so for several years.
the last time I saw Cheri was 1992 when she was traveling across country to California where she was transferred for the Navy. We tried to stay in touch but, as these things go, eventually lost contact with each other.
Bring on the wonderful thing known as Facebook...it is there that Cheri found me again a few months ago. Turns out, she now lives near St. Louis with her husband Tom and 3 boys. Tom was going to be participating in the Mini-marathon in Indy so we decided it was only right to get together and catch up. It was so great to see her! We had Cheri and Tom over tonight to grill out. Nothing fancy just some burgers and hot dogs on the grill. I dug out my old photo albums from when I was in Denmark and we looked through them together. I don't think I've looked at those things for almost 20 years and was surprised at how much I'd forgotten. Cheri, on the other hand, has a mind like a steel trap and was able to refresh my memory on so many things.
Doug and the boys also got a kick out of looking at the pictures and hearing stories of Denmark. Kaleb was particularly intrigued by the fact that I'd been to LegoLand while I was there. He was even more interested in the fact that Legos were invented in Denmark.
It was so nice to catch up with Cheri. She hasn't changed a bit and is as fun and outgoing as I remember.
DAY 122 - May 2, 2009
Summer is coming...that can only mean it is time to pull out the boxes of clothes and do the dreaded "try-on day". The boys really HATE doing this but it is completely necessary. It's not fun in my book either because it means that there are several loads of laundry to follow!
Kaden always gets the short end of the stick because he has so much to try on. On top of that, whatever doesn't fit Kaleb then goes to Kaden's pile. We got everything finished and were they ever happy about that.
Kaden's got SO MANY clothes and, aside from a pair of shorts or two, is set for the summer. Kaleb on the other hand is the one that needs clothes. He does not have the benefit of having an older brother to pass things down to him...which means he gets all new things. Maybe he doesn't see this as such a bad thing!
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