...you don't always see them but you know they are there. I know it's cheesy but it's true. Four years ago my girlfriend Justine started at BDO, then she was just an acquaintance from the accounting program at GVSU. Now I can't imagine my life without her. In some ways, we're a lot alike - both from small towns, married to our high school sweethearts, crazy enough to work in public accounting (only one of us brave enough to stay), and both raising kiddos (and doodles) in this ever changing world. We're also extremely different - she's sensitive (a hugger and a crier), loves manatees, likes fruity adult beverages, and thinks I'm strict. I like my personal space, am not a fan of swimming in the ocean, love my vodka, and think she's way more patient than I ever could be. When she and her husband sold their home in Kentwood and moved less than two miles from us, we were thrilled. On the day I went back to work from maternity leave, she gave birth to her youngest son Alex. He and Lily will start kindergarten together next fall - eek!
You'd think we'd see so much more of them now that they're close but life has it's way of making time speed by unaccounted for. When I was at BDO, three whole desks separated the two of us. If I needed to vent about work, the weather, or life, it wasn't much effort to stomp over to her cube and get her undivided attention. She was with me the night I got a phone call from DU and fully supported my decision to leave BDO...even though it meant losing a co-worker. She
may have dropped the F bomb a couple of times.
So I didn't think twice about taking her boys for a couple of hours this week so she and her husband could get out of the house. I know what's it like not to have your family (a source of free babysitting) around the corner. I also know what it's like to have dinner alone without a four year old along for the ride. And watching Lily have a blast with her friends will never get old.
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