My favourite movie is Love Actually, it’s soft and warm and it makes my husband roll his eyes.
One of the main charcters is a mum managing a few things (I was going to say juggling but I’ve banned that word from my vocabulary), her favourite artist is Joni Mitchell. I love a good singalong with Joni and one of the best is the circle…
and the seasons they go round and round
and the painted ponies go up and down
we’re captive on the carousel of time
we can’t return we can only look behind from where we came
and go round and round and round in the circle again
I was in the middle of my gorgeous girl’s 6th birthday party tonight…lots of squealing, a conga line, musical statues and just general girlyness (with a bit of pizza and sugar mixed it for good measure)…I popped inside to get some more snacks and noticed a text. It was from my oldest friend in the world she knew me before and then before that again. She told me she had been reminded of the power of old friends today and that, in that space, she remembered me and her and that she was grateful for us.
When I was 5 I managed to yank my bestest friend off of the trampoline breaking her arm and providing material for both our families conversations. A couple of weeks back my 5 year old daughters friend was over playing on the trampoline and in the midst of a jump-a-thon she broke her arm too. My daughter and I have both bonded over the sadness of having a friend hurt themselves on our watch…I’ve chosen not to point out that I actually caused the break rather than, with her, being just in the vicinity…its Joni Mitchell and that circle all over again.
Watching my daughter make friends during her first year at school has been a gigantic flashback to my school days. My buddy and I were passionate friends, we wrote each other fabulous letters, we fought like crazy loons and we have meandered in and out of each others lives for what feels like centuries.
Maybe thats the constant thread through my life bad films, old friends, stories to tell and a few broken arms for good measure – that’s my circle.
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Happy birthday to your girl! Our daughters are much the same age.
I often feel like I’m going around and around in circles, but my circles aren’t Hal as ineresting a yours!
Your friend is a darling, isn’t she? She’s inspired me to go and send a random love-you text to an old friend. x
it was the best thing ever…in the midst of the random craziness of the party it was like it all stopped and all I saw were her words – we forget to do that to people when we think of them….
oh old friends are so special, I’ve been hanging out with one this week. I love Joni too!
I love Joni…just need to convince my kids otherwise
I love ‘Love Actually’! And old friends, memories, bonding and the circle of life as it continues. Love this post x
Thanks Jodi…I feel like I know you as I read your FB posts so often! Thanks for popping over and confirming that Love Actually is a high class film x
Wow what a gorgeous piece Sar
Suffice to say i think of you often. Having our girls at the same time cemented what was already a lifelong friendship. We’ve always loved (and at times fought!) like sisters so we’re clearly stuck with each other 
Yesterday was a tough day – going to a 31 year old’s funeral who died in such tragic and violent circumstances would be. To hear her oldest girlfiriend speak of their time together from the day they met in kindergarten led me straight to memories of us – sleepovers, watching Grease for the thousandth time, fights, making up, letters to each other, picnic, horseriding and sure some broken bones. I can only hope we get the chance to have matching walking frames and blue rinses as katie and her friend thought they would. Love u xx
How do you manage to put what I am thinking into words every time!!! I have bestest friends the other side of the world, but they still mange to be my rock in times of unsteadiness. Love love live the blog Xxxx
thank you lovely Jane…I think the older we get we relish some more of what we had x
Oh, Sarah, I just saw this piece (I’ll have to check the rest of your blog to see what else I’ve missed!). A beautiful piece that I’m going to print out and put in a special spot; a reminder of broken arms, of old friendships, of new friendships forming. It also reminds me of the friendships my mother made with my school friends, of women that became like second mothers or aunties, some that I haven’t seen for years, but I know I could always turn to. And I agree, Love Actually is a wonderful film! x
Oops, meant to say the friendships my mother made with the mothers of my school friends…..