Come Together

Yesterday my Facebook status read...

There are some places you can go and totally be yourself ~ no expectations and no judgement. Last night was one of those nights so thank you Tracey for hosting our little girls reunion and thanks to Susan, Krista, KellieAnn, Tammy, Kim & Laurie for showing up ~ sharing stories and making us all laugh ~ what a wonderful group of friends. — feeling blessed.

I have talked about this group of friends before

they are the ones that you love to see ~ not just to play

"remember when"

but to invest in their lives ~ find out what is new

how are the folks, the kids, the pets

sharing stories

I always say thank goodness for FB for helping us keep in touch

and plan gatherings like this one and the lunch date I had last month

Kim, Sue, Kellieann, Krista, Tracey, Lori & Tammy out front

I got all sappy at one point of the evening and said

you know ~ I wasn't worried about having to have my nails done

or my hair coloured

I could come here in sweats and know that I would be welcomed

with open arms

we have seen each other at our best and our worst

in happy times and sad ones

we have wiped away tears and baby spit up

we talked about everything under the sun

who have you seen?  do you know where so and so is now?

music ~ what are you listening to?

tv shows ~ don't you just love Deacon on Nashville?

and of course we did a LOT of reminiscing as well

I have a hat box full of trinkets from my 17 years of working here

and leave it to Kellieann to dig into it and surprise us all out in the gazebo

with a little impromptu fashion show

this is Laurie ~ closest thing I had to a big sister for a whole lotta years

she was my manager ~ my mentor ~ my friend

she was the one that would give me an 11 am wakeup call on Sunday mornings

when I was a carefree single living on my own

good times ~ good times

I miss that we do not see each other that often anymore

but with 2 kids ~ involved in sports ~ well there you have it

she does have a new puppy so we talked about a dog park date soon!

we missed a few that were able to make it last time but not this one

and a few that were planning to come but couldn't

the only way to remedy that is to have another one sooner than later

looking at these pictures make me smile

I truly am blessed.

xo