Catching Up With Friends...Good Day

I had a really great day today. Riley "graduated" from her 3 year old preschool class and had her little program and party today. We had a really great time there because both Riley and Samuel were so well behaved and polite.....NO MELT DOWNS today!!!! I also got to catch up with two different friends on the phone today. I talked to both of them for like an hour each and it was really great!!!!!

I have made plans with Jessica to come to Noah's ball game this Saturday. I am going to let my two wild kids run around with her sweet Joseph, she and I are going to catch up even more while we watch Noah play. I am so excited!!!! I will help her shoot dirty looks at the wretched team mom and we will dish out all of the gossip that we didn't get to talk about today. We have been saying for months that we need to get together and we have finally made a plan...you get to discuss a lot when you talk for an hour while riding around aimlessly letting the kids nap behind you in the car...that is what I was doing while we talked anyway...that is about the only way I can talk on the phone...if my kids are confined in their car seats or in their beds asleep for the night. :-)

The other phone call was from a former coworker who I was really close to and still am really...even though I don't get to see and talk to her every day. I know I have said this over and over but I really miss my former work family. They seemed so much more than friends and I try not to think about how much I miss them because it is one of the only things that makes me sad about the whole situation with losing my job. I am so lucky that I have been able to keep in touch with most of the people I used to work with. They reach out to me often and do not treat me like I have fallen off the face of the Earth....which is what I feared would have happened.

I have also made plans via text messaging to visit another friend for a play date next Tuesday. Her daughter is Riley's age and they get along really well. We are invited to her house to swim. Having my kids around water kind of makes me nervouse because I cannot swim a stroke....AT ALL. I have always been afraid of water (probably coming from my two near drownings) but do not want my kids to be. Amanda is a great swimmer so I know she would play life guard to us if she needed to. I am looking forward to catchin up with her since she eloped to Vegas and moved into her new husband's house. Maybe I will get to meet him while I am there. She seems extremely happy now after a very bad first marriage so I am really looking forward to hearing all about her new life and love.

I am blessed with great friends (even though I don't get to see them as often as I should) and a wonderful family. I think it would do a lot of people a lot of good to remind themselves of that sometimes. Life is what you make it and why not make it as good as you can when you can? Smile, Laugh and Love every day! It is so very easy to get caught up in the bad and not see the good going on right under your nose. I really appreciate it when things cross my path to wake me up a little regarding how fortunate I truly am. Several things have done that to me this week and it is only Tuesday night. Have a great evening everyone!