Friends

Gotta have them.  Really the last few days I have realized how important it is for women to have friends outside of their family.  Sometimes we need help that family can't give.  Sometimes we need help understanding our families.  Sometimes we just need to vent about our lives without having our family members judging us.  I love having friends,  this past week I have helped a friend move, took some friends away to the cabin for a getaway, and went to a friends party from a playgroup we started 9 years and 3 kids ago.  Even though the playgroup people have mostly moved on to other cities we still try to get together once or twice a year, and we are still the best of friends.  We got each other through the rough not sleeping, little baby, pregnant years.  Now we are old, we are spending more time in the car than at the changing table,  but we are still bound together from those years of helping each other just get through the day.

Life has been crazy, last week we super deep cleaned the house for 2 days including closets and the toy room.  We had a bbq for a friend with 70 people.  I did a young women combined craft project at my house, went to work, helped a friend move for 3 days, went to ward temple night, went to a playgroup party, church, and an overnighter with two other families at the cabin.  To say the least I am a little tired.  Ready for the lazy days of summer.  But I have seen so many blessings over the past week, I have had people show up to help me, my kids were wonderfully helpful through it all, Patrick as always has been my rock always there right when I need him, I have had deep meaningful conversations with friends, I have felt my testimony grow and been touched very deeply by the spirit. Through it all though crazy and busy I have come out the end a better person, a stronger person, with better relationships with the people around me.