Charlie and his best friend Jaeger, February, 2017 – Mars, PA
Being a Best Friend: A Charlie Dog Guest Post.
Here are some things I have learned about being a best friend. I hope you find these helpful:
Always act like it has been a hundred trillion years since you’ve last seen each other (even if it’s only been a day)! Run around like maniacs and chase each other and jump all over each other. It shows how much you’ve missed them and love them.
Share your “stuff” (including your donuts and bones and balls) – even if it is difficult – and its even okay to play tug with them for a while, but always take turns giving in.
Share your food and drink – more will always be provided.
Invite them into your home – and visit their home too (even if you have to sneak!)
Love each other’s families – they are the ones who helped make them the way they are.
Tell each other secrets (use secret signals and languages if necessary), and make sure you keep them secrets.
Take walks together – its good exercise and company.
These are just a few things I have learned along the way since I met my new best friend about a year ago when he moved into my neighborhood. Jaeger (that’s my best friend’s name) is a year younger than me even though he is bigger. Isn’t he handsome? I love Jaeger, and he loves me. We are best friends.
Mom tells me that to have a best friend you have to be one, so I try really hard.
Everyone needs at least one best friend. I’m glad I have Jaeger.
Woofs & Wags,
Charlie
Charlie is an adopted dog with brown eyes and a white-tipped tail who brings joy and laughter to his family and friends. Charlie is a gifted writer, raving food critic, cat, chipmunk, and donut lover, and exceptionally photogenic model. Some of his best friends are Mike the UPS Man, Cliff the Mailman, Jaeger the neighbor dog, and ANYONE who delivers pizza to the house. If you would like to read more guest posts by Charlie, simply type “Charlie” into the Search box at the top right hand corner of this link: thecreativelifeinbetween.com. If you would enjoy a companion like Charlie, please consider pet adoption.
When you are in about the sixth hour of and on the twelfth pound of powdered sugar making a couple thousand homemade butter mints for a friend’s wedding, and you have sugar sticking to awkward parts of your body and every square inch of your kitchen…
a true “Bestie” (who you haven’t seen for three months) shows up, washes her hands, washes the dishes in the sink, cleans your Kitchen Aid Mixer cleaner than it has been in years, and then starts rolling butter and sugar with you…
even when you insist she just sits and keeps you company……
That, my friends, is what you call a “Bestie!”
Jodi & Janet – Sanibel Island, FL – February, 2015
I am blessed with a few of the best besties ever, including my sweet Janet, who has put up with me since we were 12 years old. Her parents have adopted me as their daughter, her sisters have made me their sister. My hubby and boys love her as much as I do.
What more could I ask for?!
Yep – Buttermints and Besties – that sums up my Saturday – doesn’t get any better…
As I was contemplating what I would share on my blog today, I was emailing with a dear friend.
Always the multi-tasker, I was doing three or four things at once, but got stuck on a thought she put in my head.
Friends Found
Do you ever think about all the ways people come into your life?
How you decide who will be your “friend?”
Is it a conscious decision?
Does it take consideration?
For some, it takes time…
it takes proof,
it takes evidence,
But for me…… (and as niave as it may sound)
You are my friend…
right away…
unless or until you prove otherwise.
I fall in love quickly.
(and not in an inappropriate way)
But I simply love people.
I love their differences, their uniqueness, their similiarities…
their stories, their history, their traditions…
I love it all –
and consider you my friend
unless you prove otherwise.
No “proving” of friendship with me.
Only proving you’re not… my friend – if that is to be.
Otherwise I’ll love ya.
Because what is life about if not for that?
Call me naïve
Call me gullible
Call me a dreamer…
Whatever
I’d rather love and lose
than never love at all.
and that reminds me…
like just about everything 🙂 …
of a song…
(and here is my favorite version of Carole King’s “You’ve Got A Friend” from Divas Live – which I had on CD years ago – and now must search for! – but practically wore out listening to – and shamefully sang out VERY loud to from my car many, many a times…)
You’ve Got a Friend:
You know…
I had a bit of a vagabond lifestyle growing up
with lots of change and many different homes and schools and situations…
but I don’t regret a minute of it – because it shaped me into what and who I am today.
And I think I am ok.
Life throws us a lot of curve balls,
but the fun part is figuring out how to hit them!
And though I started out with a bit of a rocky road,
I have found so many friends along the way that have more than made up for it!
Yep –
I’ve got a friend – in fact quite a few friends – and I am so grateful…
for
Friends Found
at Life in Between.
the creative life in between 