Living next to someone for 14 years is no small thing. You get to know someone in a steady unplanned way that is second only to marriage, kids, and college dorm life. Molly and I share a love for pajamas as daywear and puttering around the garden-in those aforementioned pajamas. Like many of my forever friendships, this one started out with me introducing myself and then asking to borrow something totally inappropriate for said level of friendship. Hi, I’m Sue can I borrow your grill? Ours isn’t working and we have thirty college students heading our way in 20 minutes was what I led with, and the rest is history.
Molly, has been my cheerleader over these many years and a sounding board. She has an enormous heart in a tiny body. She’d give you the shirt off her back and, as it turns out a grill if you need to borrow it. I watched her meet her husband, marry him, and have twins! Those little babies are 9 now. She trusted me enough to let me do her wedding flowers and decorate her nursery. She lets me boss her around and push furniture in other rooms on a whim. She let me steal plants from her yard and haul my brush debris to her trash pick up pile. We go to the fabric store- I point and she pays. She subsidizes my hair brained ideas. She has denied me only a few things over the years: she wouldn’t paint her kitchen wall eggplant and she bought and kept an unfortunate blue chair for many years much to my chagrin. Nobody’s perfect.
In all honesty, Molly doesn’t really need me, she has an incredible style and a penchant for great taste all on her own. I’m just grateful she lets me collaborate with her and that’s she’s kind enough to still ask for my opinion. SM
THE LIVING ROOM
THE GUEST ROOM
WILL’S ROOM
LILA’S ROOM