Words With Friends



Kelli & I 

               

So a couple of nights ago there was a get together at my friend Kelli's house. A night we so rarely get to have anymore. A night without work, or men, or even rarer...a night without kids. We all got together to help my friend Amanda (http://www.mandapandapuddinpie.com/) put together her candy bar for her upcoming Wedding Reception! Well I forgot the candy & EVERYONE remembered the wine...So I suppose you all can guess how that turned out? Unproductive to say the least. Or was it? Maybe it was one of the most productive things we've done in months. We needed to put down the laptops & ipad's, get sitters, kiss our husbands & boyfriends goodnight-to just talk about some not so serious girl things for awhile. Sure we broke a couple of rules, we called to check on our kids, checked a couple of texts and I may have been guilty of checking that words with friends game that I was playing earlier (and that is breaking a personal rule of mine one should not play words with friends, while having words with friends). But we got to get together at least without the interruption being poop in someones pants...



The Girls Circa 2004



Not so long ago that was not so hard to do. We all had similar paths, college, trade-schools, part time jobs, full-time social lives. Now we all have careers, babies, husbands, and homes. We all have etched out our own paths & a lot of the times they don't necessarily jive together. And as adulthood encroaches let's face it it's hard to make new friends. Every conversation seems to turn into a big game of  "one-up". Whose baby walked first, who's going on vacation where, who got a new car, whose ring is bigger, are you working or are you staying home, and whose salary is bigger...and you leave the run ins feeling exhausted instead of fulfilled. But it's refreshing when you realize some things don't change. Some friendships are this easy. That when you get together the laughter is so loud, it's down right obnoxious and instead of "one-up" we played the game "remember-when" and we all decided that life's hard, so pass the wine!