Friends

I had dinner tonight with some of my very favorite women. In the front row of this picture are Lindsay's best friend since second grade, Eliza, who is also her roommate at OU, and my best friend since high school, Carla. In the back row is Lindsay, our friend April, moi, and Kelsey. We all had dinner tonight at The Old Bag of Nails Irish Pub. It was a great time filled with lots of laughs, memories, and catching up.
Some of you will recall my talking about April and asking for prayers for her. Last summer she successfully battled multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells. After weeks spent at the Cleveland Clinic, she has been in remission. This form of cancer is never considered "cured" and may come back at any time, but her oncologist doesn't feel that is likely to happen. April and I grew up on the same side of town, she's three years older than me, but one of her brothers was my age. She married and moved to California where she lived until 16 years ago when she came back to Delaware and came to work as an attorney in the law office where I work. She has two boys the same age as my girls and her oldest son is friends with Lindsay and Eliza and the group of friends that they hung out with in high school.
Do you have friends that you would simply be lost without? Friends that you wish you were able to spend more time with? My 76 year old mother still visits regularly with friends that she has had since grade school, whichI think is pretty incredible. I would be lost without any of the women in this picture. But I would also be lost without many of the friends I have "met" online. Some I have met in person, others I have not, but certainly would like to. It's interesting how the internet has made my simple little world a little bit bigger and made my heart a little bigger too, to hold all of my friends!
I feel very fortunate to have each and every one of you in my life!
Hugs,
Laurie