Girlfriends

Every year I get the opportunity to spend a beautiful weekend with my girlfriends from college. We have not missed a year since we graduated. It always has always just been us girls and we make sure to leave the boys behind. This year it was Shannon's turn to pick the place and time. She decided to throw herself a big 25 + 5 birthday bash in Palm Springs. You would have to know her to appreciate the magnitude in which she does things. In true Shannon fashion she rented out an original 1960 mod house with shag carpet and all. She demanded we all dress in appropriate attire and play the part (of which none of actually did!). But it was blessed weekend. We cooked, laughed, stayed up till 3:00 in the morning talking and danced.
It is a heavenly gift to have girlfriends such as these. We are all weak in keeping in touch but we have pact that no matter how much time goes by we always pick up where we left off the previous year. We have been by each other sides when it mattered the most, falling in love, weddings, break-ups, job ups and downs and the 25 midlife crisis.
I am thankful for Shannon and Nicole and look forward the baby phase, the retirement phase, and even the dying phase...for surely we will share these moments together.