if only for a little while

How can I begin to express what a joy it is

for us to spend time again with so many of the friends we left behind?

Ah, how good it feels!  

The hand of an old friend.  

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 There's something unspeakably precious about seeing your faces,

and hearing your familiar voices;

even though the children who were small with our children

have grown and changed, 

the friendship remains.

“But people themselves alter so much, 

that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
  Jane Austen

 

 “It is more fun to talk with someone 

who doesn't use long, difficult words 

but rather short, easy words like 

"What about lunch?”
  A.A. Milne 

It encourages us to be with you,

to share meals

and play games...

 ...and quiet moments.

“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 

'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
― A.A. Milne

  

 “You meet people who forget you. 

You forget people you meet.

 But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. 

Those are your 'friends”
Mark Twain

Our friends are unforgettable.

How we've missed you all!

And how good it is to be back...

if only for a little while...