Welcome to the first blog post, Madeline and friends!  These posts will always go up on Wednesdays.  I’ll try to keep them fairly short since I know you all don’t have a lot of time to read.  For this starter post today I wanted to put up a poem I learned when I was in elementary school.  My best friend and I were Girl Scouts.  Her mom was the leader.  We learned this poem together in Scouts.  I think it’s appropriate for today:

Make new friends,
but keep the old.
One is silver,
the other is gold.

Somehow I always remembered it as saying, “Silver and gold,/ Silver and gold,/ Make new friends/ But keep the old.”  I actually made a quilt block on my friend’s 30th birthday that said this poem (as I remembered it) and included a photo of our Girl Scout troop from elementary school.  I miss her lots these days.  Old friends are the very best!
I had no idea (or if I did, I don’t remember it now) that this was part of a longer scout song.  I found the longer version at the Scout Songs website.  It goes like this:

So I wrote all this to say, don’t forget your old friends, Madeline!  We already miss you.  Hopefully next week some of the other friends will have a message or two for you.  I will post them here next Wednesday and once you get settled in in your new place you can come back here and read the messages.  If you want, you can even post a comment with messages back to us.
Your friend,
Lisa