White Oleander

Today my best friend and I are finally watching " White Oleander". Lets back up a little to tell you the history of why I describe it as " finally.

My friend, Melissa, and I were co teachers together in the two year old class in our local daycare. Yes the terrible two's! We honestly just stayed for the kids. I don't know how I would get through each day without my bestie. Anyways.... during nap time I would usually read a book. I read so many books during that time! Melissa are a lot alike and very different at the same time. She suggested some things and sometimes it went well and sometimes I did agree but that would be a boring friendship if we were the same. Melissa took french in college, traveled to France and bought one of her favorite books in France, White Oleander. She must of trusted me because she gave it to me to read. It was a big bulky book and I was thinking it was going to take forever for me to finish this book. People say "don't judge a book by the cover" but come on .... a lot of us do. The cover was int interesting and the back was as well but, it was my friends favorite book and I wanted to know why. 

I was instantly hooked and love the story. Hard childhood, crazy mom kind of hooked. I don't want to give the story away at all but it was a book I have never read and enjoyed. It was a lot of "adult" things.

One day my dad saw my reading it and mentioned there is a movie named White Oleander. I told Melissa and she told me she had never seen it and we needed to ASAP. That was in 2010?!?!

The other day I was looking through my step moms movies and found...... White Oleander. So Melissa and I finally are watching it tonight! Only 4 years later.