Caroline and Madelyn~ these two have been holding hands literally from the first day they met, three years ago this summer, when Caroline's family was new in Shanghai and our two families walked to dinner together after church. Today we said good-bye to Caroline. One of the down sides of this expat life, having dear, dear friends leave every year. Seems somehow the hardest on pre-teen girls. The blessing is that Caroline's family is moving to a place where we will easily be able to see her again, and the girls have already made plans for this summer.
The flip side of this difficulty of having friends leave is that we have friends in so many places now! :-) I had this discussion with some good friends yesterday morning over coffee, ladies I have shared Bible study with over the past several years. We all agree it is so hard to say good-bye, but we definitely feel thankful for the time we've had together, and are richer for knowing one another.
So much fun to photograph these two earlier in the week!
They chose their poses...
The jumping ones were so much fun!
The Liptaks love you, Caroline... especially Madelyn.
Caroline and Madelyn~ these two have been holding hands literally from the first day they met, three years ago this summer, when Caroline's family was new in Shanghai and our two families walked to dinner together after church. Today we said good-bye to Caroline. One of the down sides of this expat life, having dear, dear friends leave every year. Seems somehow the hardest on pre-teen girls. The blessing is that Caroline's family is moving to a place where we will easily be able to see her again, and the girls have already made plans for this summer.
The flip side of this difficulty of having friends leave is that we have friends in so many places now! :-) I had this discussion with some good friends yesterday morning over coffee, ladies I have shared Bible study with over the past several years. We all agree it is so hard to say good-bye, but we definitely feel thankful for the time we've had together, and are richer for knowing one another.
So much fun to photograph these two earlier in the week!
They chose their poses...
The jumping ones were so much fun!
The Liptaks love you, Caroline... especially Madelyn.
2 comments:
Darling girls! So happy for Madelyn to have such a friend-- and so hard for her to move away. Emma's best friend is moving away this summer, too.
But you can still be the best of friends with a person--even if she lives on the other side of the world, can't you? :)
Madelyn looks so much older... how time passes. How blessed is she to have had this friendship!
awesome pics too!!!
-V
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