Just Between You and Me and 850 of Our Closest Friends

After she read the last post, Lauren said, "It's not that we're not creating memories to inspire the blog, it's just that they are spread out on the phone or they all happen at once when I'm home to visit. They just get postponed sometimes."

She was so right. And she forgot to mention Facebook. Case in point: *

LAUREN

I really DON'T understand how it's so difficult to follow simple instructions. Honestly, the military is the EASIEST job on the planet. You are told what to do, all you have to do is do it.

NICOLE

That's funny. Substitute "childhood" for military, and you have the exact thing I said about you to my friends.

KHRISTOPHER

Your mom's website is cool. I read everything on there last night. Funny shit.

LAUREN

Mother...just...shh!! I see this now. But these kids are ridiculous. They want to be treated like adults but they show no reason to.

NICOLE

"But these kids are..." Again, you quote me.

LAUREN

You don't even know, Mother!!!!

KHRISTOPHER

Christopher Meloni called, by the way.

LAUREN

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* Transcript contains minor editing.

And so it continues. Now I can sleep better.

Oh, and Lauren? Christopher Meloni left a message here, too.

Sunrise, Sunset

I have to search the young woman's face longer, now, to see my little girl. Legally, she's been an adult for almost a year, though I still question so many of her choices. But then, I'm sure my parents still question mine.

I stopped coming here, stopped posting, because it made me sad to think that Lauren and I are no longer creating the kinds of memories that inspired the title of this blog. And then I found this picture, from Christmas 2010.

This blog, like my life, is exactly what I choose to make of it.

Here's looking at you, Poots!