Livi Girl: 10 Year Reunion

livi girl what?

You may be wondering about the name "livi girl." When I first started with this whole online community stuff, I wanted to maintain some anonymity (and yet I put up pictures of my boys for all to see?). But when you choose an online user name for yourself, you are choosing an identity, one name to tell others who you are. So I had to ask myself - who am I? I wanted my user name to go beyond my job as a housewife or mother because I so often get caught up in those jobs that I forget there's more to me. So I didn't go for "mom of 2" or "domestic goddess." But I wanted my name to be meaningful and larger in scope. What is truly most important in my life? Well, the obvious answer is God. And the attributes of God most important to my life are love and peace. So I went to a baby names website and looked up names meaning peace. Livi was one of the names and it seemed lively and energetic, so that's how I came to have the user name "livi girl."

Saturday, October 23, 2010

10 Year Reunion

We had a great time hanging out with our college friends again! On Friday night we met up with our old roomies and their two kids. We were staying in the same hotel and went out to dinner together at Isaac’s, one of our local favorites from the college days. Both of their kids are a year younger, respectively, than our 2 older kids. They took a while to warm up, but by the end of dinner, they were running all over the restaurant and causing general mayhem like old buddies.

Saturday morning we went to the reunion. It was nice to walk around the campus. It still looks beautiful and they’ve added some nice new buildings, but there were also a lot of things that were still the same. We met up with another old roomie of mine, Anne, and her husband and adorable little girl. Casey and his roommate and Anne and I have all been friends since the first week of college and their spouses-to-be joined our group of friends the following year, so we all have a lot of fun memories together. There were a few friends that couldn’t make it to the reunion, but we’re hoping to get together next year for a girls’ weekend (and maybe the guys and kids can all get together for their own weekend?) It was a great time and I’m so glad that I had such great friends in college!