Childhood Best Friends - Themed Images

Well, not my best friend from childhood, but surely, this little girls:

Best Friends - an oil painting of a little girl and her dog:



--Donna Proctor

I am so very sorry for your loss. My brother was taken from me also when he was 21 and the only friend I really ever had as I was a loner. I dont have a painting of him but I do have a painting of my best friend for the last 7 years. He is my world. He was sleeping on the floor in the sunshine and so peaceful that I had to capture the moment.

Mary Ellen -
I didn't want to add my condolences to my image . . . hence my return. My sincerest condolences to you and yours over the loss of your brother.
A beautiful and loving tribute to your brother Bob - and his hunting companion, Rusty.

--Donna Proctor

Edit - @ Melissa - so sorry for your loss also. I can only imagine how difficult it is to lose someone so close ... so young.

The bear in this photo was given to me when I was born. He even went to college with me. His best quality is how well he can keep a secret.

This is Lucky. He was given to my son on his 7th birthday. Now my son is about to turn 13, and we just said goodbye to Lucky a few weeks ago. Lucky was the first furry friend my son ever lost. It sure is hard to see your child so sad.

My condolences to yourself and Melissa. Losing a brother hurts like .......

My condolences Mary Ellen. My oldest sister has been a real support to me and I was not surprised she bought this print as my first sale. She is a very spiritual person.

Thank you everyone, keep the memories coming. I miss Lucky too, Valerie. It is interesting how important our non-human family were to us. This is actually my younger brother (Bill) as a baby with the Field Cocker I grew up with (Sandy passed when I was 7). Sandy would 'watch' us kids for my mom (a nice herd of 5). Mom would put 3 diapers on the toddlers and if we crawled out-of-bounds, Sandy would pick us up by the pants and take back to safety. Can you imagine what SRS would do to my mom today - lol.
-- mary ellen anderson

Mary Ellen, that is a great story. Three in diapers! Your mother probably loved Sandy more than you kids did. lol

Valerie
Sandy was such a character. You can kind of tell in the painting that he always wore a harness type collar, which works quite well as a saddle for a toddler. So I would ride Sandy... until we got a new walnut dinning room table and he broke my nose going under it (abt. age 2) - lol. Still have the small bump and scar on my nose.

Damn kids, always getting their best friends in trouble. But Sandy obviously loved trouble.
-- mary ellen anderson

Very Sorry to hear about your loss Mary.


This was my best friend Max and I lost him to illness not to long ago.

Mary,

My sympathy to you and your family. May these wonderful stories of your childhood be an enormous comfort.

My oldest brother passed away November 2010.

My best friend in childhood was my cousin, Jerry. Five months apart, we were like two peas in a pod.

One of my fondest memories was I learned to ride a bike using his bicycle. Mom, being widowed at age 33 with three kids, didn't have the money for anything outside of necessities.

As a child, I spent a great deal of time with my doll, Betsy, a present my Dad had given to me the Christmas before he passed. I still have her. Bald now in the back of the head from excessive combing. I love her blinking blue eyes and light hair, something I never was. Years later, I would give birth to a daughter with light hair and blue eyes. Her youngest daughter resembles Betsy.

Here's Betsy. These days I dress her in my daughter's first dress.

My brother and I :) We fought rarely and he even let me hang out with him when he was a teenager ( he is 4 yrs older). We still talk on the phone frequently as he lives in another state. One year we were talking about an episode from about the time this photo was taken.... I had a candy necklace and he was showing off to a group of boys ..I dropped it and he smooshed it with his foot. He didn't remember it ..but I did because it was so rare for him to act like that. A few weeks later I got a package in the mail ..inside it was a long skinny necklace box and carefully strung from side to side was a candy necklace. There was also a very tiny note in tiny handwritten lettering it said "Please forgive me" After I quit laughing I ate it and saved the empty string..I inserted it in the same way he had..stringing it side to side..and on an equally tiny note I wrote "All is forgiven" and mailed it back to him. He called a few days later & we laughed together on the phone.

Mary Ellen, please accept my condolences....
May his memory forever be a blessing to you.

Mary Ellen.. praying for you & yours. I lost both my parents a few years ago in one weeks time. Its always hard when you love someone. ((((((hugs)))))))))