growing up...kinda..

I found out yesterday morning that my best friend is pregnant. This is her 1st kid and its super exciting. But weird at the same time. We've been friends for 15 years. All through junior high, high school, college and marriages. We've been through it all it seems like. And now she is pregnant. It's weird. I can't help but feel like she is joining this different world by being pregnant. And in a way, I guess it is a different world, she is going to be a mom. Not a mom to a dog or a cat, not a mom to some kind of animal, but a mom to a human being. A human being who will be there for the rest of her & her husbands life. How weird is that? I don't know, when I think of my 2 best friends in the entire universe, I still think of all the times we stayed out way to late, all the times we threw parties at our parents house while they were out of town, all the times we had sleepovers, all the times we were so incredibly bored on a Saturday night that we would drive around aimlessly until our curfew, all the conversations we've had about life, all the times we got in trouble, everything I know about them and everything they know about me....just everything. But now we're all married and one of us is pregnant. How awesome - I mean I'm going to be an auntie - but seriously, I didn't think we were old enough yet to be having kids. I mean I know we are, but I know we aren't also. I don't see us as being 25 or 26, I just see us as being....us, the nerdy little 7th grade girls who thought we were way cooler than we actually were. 

On a side note, since I don't plan on having any kids of my own - I can't wait to meet the little squirt and spoil him/her rotten and then hand them back over to moms & pops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!