Every third Tuesday of the month is Girl's Night Out. It's like a religious holiday with my group of girlfriends. Since we have known each other for over 50 years, that Tuesday night takes priority over everything. Our group of best buds have been meeting for many years and we've gone through a lot of important milestones. We've had our babies together. We've watched each others kids get married. We've sat through family funerals. We've weathered the good and the not so good. Some of us have been through divorce and some of us are Grammas.
It's like we're sisters, but by choice and not genetics.
This group of women are some of the smartest and strongest women I know.
Every third Tuesday night, the stories and the alcohol flow freely. We fill each other in about what is new, who's kid did what, which boyfriend said what, "Oh no, he didn't" blah blah blah. Tonight we had a lot to celebrate. One of us had her last radiation treatment for a brain tumor. Another one of us had a daughter graduate, becoming a medical doctor and practicing at Harvard. Both are wonderful accomplishments. Both make me proud to know them. I know we will all be friends forever. We even have plans to live at the same retirement/nursing home when we need it. It's that or the pact to push each other off a bridge. And I have a feeling, we will stick to that promise. Life gets busy and life goes on. All I know is I'm really lucky to have six best friends!
words for the day....
Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can't pick us up, they lie down by us and listen for a while.
I just shed a tear....no really....I did!!! Love you too!!
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