Welcome to "Randomly Tandemly"

Once upon a time, two little girls (one blonde and one redhead) lived down the street from each other...

The blonde was named Courtney and the redhead was named Keelie. When they were four, they met at a small preschool and became fast friends. Throughout their younger years, there were many days of Barbies, playing pretend, arguing over hair length, having tea parties, more Barbies, playing dress up, having sleepovers, lots more Barbies, and general silliness.

As they got older, they continued to spend their school days (and non-school days) together whenever possible. These more "mature" days often involved playing dress up for social occasions, still having sleepovers, girl drama, running amuck in other nearby towns, boys, weekend trips to the movies and local Subway, more girl drama, grown-up beverages, meaning-of-life discussions, arguing about girl drama, and Friday night football games.

Skip to today and it's a remarkably different picture. Keelie and Courtney no longer have a use for girl drama, they have a preference for Mexican food rather than Subway, and there's a lot less running amuck. Oh, and husbands and kids have entered the picture. Courtney is a SAHM 3 beautiful and very active kids (age 5, 4, and 2), a 9-5 hubby, and MOMS club duties. Keelie works outside the home, attends grad school, and has 1 attitudinal but sweet 4-year-old and a night shift hubby. Courtney lives hours away from her and her husband's family, so they're flying solo. Keelie lives 10 minutes away from her parental units and in-laws, and leans on them A LOT. Ironically, there's actually still girl drama (usually surrounding the girl children), they still love Barbies (because their daughters play with them), and they still occasionally run amuck to the movies (thank you Twilight series!). So perhaps some things change and some really do stay the same? Either way, Keelie and Courtney have been through a lot of ups and downs together (sometimes with each other), and have managed to stay best friends for HOLY CRAP almost 28 years. (Please don't do the math, they know how old they are.)

SO, now that you're privy to the whole backstory of a rather interesting friendship, I can stop talking in third person (although it is fun when Keelie is intending to be obnoxious) and get to the point. After a whole lot of years of friendship and now living so far apart, Courtney and I decided that we needed another way to connect/talk/vent/etc. besides Facebook, phone (trust me, unlimited talk and text would STILL not be enough), and email. I also had blog-envy because if you read my very first post, you'll know that I need a somewhat creative writing outlet. So, here we are.

Every week we're aiming to tackle a different topic that's relevant to us as mothers/wives/BFFs. Or it could be completely random. That's the joy of being your own blog boss. We're going to post on the same topic in tandem. Hence, our fabulous weekly blog post that will now be known as "Randomly Tandemly". Enjoy it if you will. If you don't - stop reading (and PS, we don't want to hear your complaints). I'll be linking to Courtney's blog from my page and vice versa. We're really excited to get started and in the near future you'll (hopefully) be reading our first Randomly Tandemly blog about "the Sickies". Yes, nothing says good writing like starting out with a touch of grossness. But please enjoy anyway. We're looking forward to posting more!