Girlfriends Weekend

This past weekend I got to go to my friend's house along with five other friends (for a total of seven ladies), and we just spent time together talking, and talking. There was always talking. I think there were about 3 minutes or so at dinner on Saturday night when we were all stuffing our faces with fajitas that we weren't talking, but other than that, and the movie, we were talking non-stop. We saw "The Help." It's a very good movie. It was hard for us to watch, as a bunch of mommies. There are some extreme examples of bad parenting in that movie, and it made us all sad to see.

After the movie, we went to dinner and ate fajitas. After the dinner, on the way back to K's house, somehow we erupted in a food fight with Nerds and Reese's Pieces being thrown around the car. I laughed so hard I cried. That's one of those moments all seven of us will remember for the rest of our lives.

I had a great time lounging by the pool at K's house. Her husband and she have worked all summer putting it in, with the help of some contractors. They did much of the work themselves. It's a saltwater pool, rather than a chlorine pool. I really liked it. You could swim in it with your eyes open without it hurting your eyes. Very cool.

It amazes me every time we get together (this was probably the 3rd or 4th time) that the seven of us all get along. We're very different from each other, but we have a mutual love and respect for one another. We are bonded by common experience, having each been pregnant at the same time as at least one of the others in the group, and having shared some profound life changes together. And we share a common faith in God.

It was worth the sleep deprivation to have spent the weekend with my girlfriends. I am blessed to have them in my life.