Prompt C

Recipe For My Best Friend

3 cups of understanding
2 cups of similarities
½ cup of humor
One eight oz tub of fun
4 cups of laughter
6 cups of love
2 tablespoons of work

Start with understanding. It is the most important ingredient. Without it, the recipe doesn’t work. Mix in the similarities to create a better base. The similarities will help the friendship grow. Wisk in the humor and fun. They help make special memories with my best friend and build unbreakable connections. There is a pretty good mixture at this point of friendship. It is a basic friendship, but gets better once the laughter is added in. Add in the laughter. Pour into a large bowl and slowly add in the love. Love is very delicate and needs to be added slowly. Only add as much love as you want in your friendship. I added all 6 cups and married my best friend. Once the love is added, put into a friendship pan. Cover with the work. The friendship is fine without the work, but it may break apart after cooking. Bake for 2 hours at 350. It is a long time, but it is worth it when it comes out perfectly.
My best friend is my husband, Scott. He is the most important person in my life. Our friendship started when I was 18 and working at Subway. Scott worked next door to me at a golf store. He would come in on a regular basis to get drinks and slowly we became friends. When I opened Subway on Saturday mornings, I would count down the minutes until he would come in and open the golf shop. We would usually chat on those mornings for quite a while everything was slow. We told each other about what we did the night before and would tease each other about the people we were dating. We had a good time together, but it was nothing more than a good friendship.
I left for school at BYU-Idaho after we had know each other for a couple of years. When I came home for a visit over Christmas break, a friend of mine told me Scott wanted to hang out. I was a little surprised but we decided to plan it. While we were bowling that night, I realized I had more feelings than mere friendship feelings for Scott. I didn’t even realize it while I was gone. That is where it all started. We had a long distance relationship on and off for the next 2 ½ years. Just before I finished my associates degree and moved home, we got engaged. After a 19 month engagement we were married.
I was so blessed to marry my best friend. There is nothing better than having a husband who is so similar to me in so many ways. We can sometimes finish each other’s sentences and know what the other is thinking in social situations with merely a look. I have more fun with him than anyone else. He keeps me laughing and laughs at my stupid jokes. The love we have started out the love of a friendship and has grown to the love of a marriage. Yet our friendship grows just as much as our marriage relationship does. The last ingredient is one of the most important pieces. Work. Work is what keeps any relationship going. Without the work it falls apart and can’t come back together.