Friendship

Last Friday we spent the evening with our former next-door neighbors.

Even though Jordan is four years younger than her, Margaret and Jordan has a great time spending their weekends playing chase or trucks and Legos and whatever Jordan wanted. Those two were very close.

I'd go outside on the weekends only to hear a little voice coming from the porch next door, "Hey! Can Mar play? Hey Mar! Hey, can you play?"

I'd say, "Hi Jordan."

"Oh hi Robin, can Mar play?"

Now, Mar is 11 and wears mascara and has crushes on boys and giggles with her girl friends and wants to wear high-heeled shoes. Jordan is 7 and he still wants to play with Mar.

And Mar still loves to play with Jordan and his little brother, too. They played all evening last Friday.

When it was time to go, Jordan had just broke out his new Star Wars Lego set. The two of them were blind to the world. Building Legos was their only interest.

Mar has never shown much interest in Legos before. At all.

So I was surprised when she made me promise that after skiing on Saturday that I'd take her to the store so she could spent the rest of her Christmas money on a giant Star Wars Lego set with 815 pieces.

She spent hours Saturday and Sunday putting that set together.

Now two Star Wars Episode 1 Lego pod racers sit on a shelf upstairs.

She loved the challenge and fun of building that complicated set. She never would have known she liked Legos if it weren't for her dear pal Jordan.