As most of you remember, I explained my crazy year of weddings. The first wedding "event" of the season was last weekend, the bachelorette party for one of my absolute best friends (you know, the one who I went to the porn shop for?!) The weekend was spent with 14 girls, lots of wine, serious dance parties, pole dancing lessons, and the realization that this party mom is out of drinking shape.
The weekend was a great time but the best part was probably the union of my favorite four. I am very forunate to have a lot of amazing ladies in my life. My sisters and cousins have grown from family to friends and I have made and kept a lot of important friendships throughout my 27 years thus far. Although all of these friendships are special and important, a college friendship is something different. I have a relationship with these girls that is more than friends...we are family. Not only did I spend the best years (body and booze wise) with these girls, but I lived, slept, ate, drank, shared, cried, and breathed with them day in and out. Take it even one step further for me, we played soccer together. Because of this, we traveled, sweat, showered (get your mind out of the gutters), and shared everything. This postion led to friendships that I never imagined possible. I am still extremely close with about 10 of the girls from my team. I keep in touch with many more and have a extra special bond with three ladies.
The four of us did everything together and have built relationships that truly should be seen by the likes of all on E! Three of us still love close and the fourth lives about 4 hours away (not too bad) but when we all get together, it's like we're back in college and nothing has changed. It doesn't matter that now we're all either engaged or married, I'm a mother, one's a doctor, or one's a lawyer. The bachelorette weekend brought us back together to celebrate one of our own and let me tell you...we celebrated.
The minute we get together, our typical banter begins. Within minutes of being around the four of us, one of the bride to be's friends from grad-school laughed saying we reminded her of the Golden Girls. Hmmm...this got me thinking. What a great comparison. Here are four girls who all have completey different personalities that compliment each other while feeding off each other. We have the relationships where it's ok to say "Don't eat that piece of pizza, you'll hate yourself in an hour," "Go fuck yourself," "How often do you and your husband have sex?" or "Change that shirt, it makes you look broad." These are honest, true, statements sometimes joking and sometimes serious and I absolutley love that they can be said in my circle without offense taken. I actually said "I never feel bad talking about any of you if you're not around because I've already said it to your face." And everyone agreed. We can talk about each other flaws, personalities, and accomplishments without judgement (ok maybe a little) or pause. This my friends, is friendship and I am truly blessed to have these lifelong friends. Who knows, in 40+ years we might be living the Golden Girl lifestyle...with a little more wine.
Love this!!!!!! xoxo
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