You Can't Grow An Old Friend - Thinkway Toys Buzz And Woody!

You Can’t Grow An Old Friend – Thinkway Toys Buzz And Woody!

That’s the saying isn’t it although I kind of think I’d like to disagree… I have been thinking about friendships ever since we agreed to review some new Toy Story toys (the new talking Buzz and Woody from Thinkway Toys at Smyths – which are excellent by the way and all in aid of celebration ahead of the new Toy Story film coming in 2019 AND you can win a £50 Smyths voucher further on in the post) and I have decided this summer that you can indeed grow an old friend – even better still, you can grow one for someone else. Let me explain myself better, I do realise that I’m probably not making any sense!

I have lots of friends and feel incredibly lucky that I do. I lean on my mates ALL the time and often feel that I have just as much of a giggle with them now as I did when I was fancy free and single. It’s different of course because we all have children now but that’s one of the best bits don’t you think? The kids get together when we do and that’s a built in friendship right there – friends for life from the get go! And this is where my post today is going…

It doesn’t matter how long time has passed with my mates, we pick up where we left off and what I’ve noticed most is that so do the babes. My friends are spread out, near and far, old and new and while we keep in contact on social media (never has it been easier to stay touch with someone thanks to Facebook and Snap Chat and Instagram and the rest – say what you like about social media platforms but I blooming love them and know that it keeps me close with the people I love who live far away) the kids don’t and yet it’s like they’ve never been apart when they see each other… That bond is there, not getting broken in the slightest for a lack of contact and when my little ones fly into the arms of my friend’s children, even if it’s been a year or more, and as they chatter away as if it was yesterday, it fills my heart! Now that, my friends, is what I am calling hand me down friendships. Passing the friendship on… Growing an old friend if you will. My pals and I grew our babies and they were pals from day one because of us. Aren’t they lucky! They are SO lucky! And I feel lucky too!

This summer has been largely spent with good friends. Beach days, holidays, camping trips and simply just meeting in the park. And we’ve caught up with some of our very best besties. The children have loved it but not half as much as I have.

My friend Eve and her family came to stay! I met her on holiday when I was 14 and everyone said it wouldn’t last! They said we wouldn’t write, wouldn’t stay in touch, that it would fizzle out! It never has you know and this is her family and mine a couple of weeks ago. Kids of all ages but all getting on as fiercely as Eve and I do and always have done. Those kids have this whole network of beautiful friendships built on the friendships of their parents… This is just one of them! And as Eve and I collapsed into fits of giggles over something and nothing and our husbands (who are also mates by the way) looked on witheringly, our girls were in one corner doing dance routines, our boys plotting and planning lots of fun and our babies on our boobs waiting for the day they can buddy up too! This is what friendship is all about!

This is my three with my friend Emily’s gang. Again their ages are all different but again they get on like a house on fire! I met Em when we went to gymnastics together aged 11 and look at what our friendship has grown for the next generation – all those smiles!

Florence had a sleep-over recently with the daughter of my oldest friend. My friend is very ill at the moment. Life has changed for this little girl and it’s not my story to tell so I won’t but from my friendship with her mummy, one grown in a play scheme at the age of six, has come a beautiful friendship for our daughters. Sunshine on a rainy day this one is but all from handed down love!

Handed down love, friendships passed on… You absolutely can grow an old friend, or have one grown for you at least! There are lots of not just good friendships in my life but lots of really great ones and that is the best news for all of our babies because you can never have enough friends, enough back up, enough love! Bring on more I say!

Don’t forget that next year will see the release of Toy Story 4, perhaps one of the loveliest tales of friendship… I know mine are looking forward to it as they love 1, 2 and 3! The Toy Story franchise is as wholesome and as plump as you could ever possibly want and I adore that it’s a film I can share with my babes – this new one looks set to be awesome! My children (and their friends, the old kind and the new) have been playing with the new Toy Story Buzz and Woody talking action figures from Thinkway Toys.

You can pick up these gorgeous 12″ pals, which are the most lifelike ones you will find, from Smyths Toys and if you care to enter my competition then you can bag yourself a £50 voucher to spend in store meaning you could buy yourself these pals for keeps too… Remember to tell all your friends of the old and the new kind and just with as with the love, pay it forward, hand it down and get them to enter too – gotta be in it to win it after all!

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