My dear friend lost her nephew. I do not personally know the parents that well, but I do know other family members along with my sweetest friend. Please keep the family in your prayers... Our head Pastor wrote a blog post about it and I will simply link to it. I have no other words. When Words Have No Meaning And hug your kids again today.....

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As we are planning our annual Girl's Night Out Christmas Shindig, one of the girls will not be able to make it. She lives a couple hours away and it is obviously not always easy to run up here. Plus, she has a baby. Anyway, through our e-mail correspondents yesterday, figuring out what to do and what to bring and all of that, Katie mentioned she would have an editorial in the paper she works for about turning 30 and having girlfriends. Back in August, Denise and I took Katie out for dinner. While at dinner, both Denise (who turns 30 in January. The 15 to be exact.) and I lamented about how awful it was to have that looming in our very near future. Katie, who had just turned 29 in July, was not on board. What was the big deal about turning 30, she wondered. Ah, my friend who has JUST turned 29 had not been hit yet. Sure, in lots of ways, we are still young. I know that. We can still get up off the floor. We can still have a couple drinks with the girls. Some of us, it seems, can st...

I met with my girlfriends last Friday night. These are the girls that I have known for years. And by years, I mean pretty much since the sixth grade. If you are counting, that makes it about eighteen years. These are my GIRLS. We did a wine and snack night. We brought wine and snacks and sat down around Denise's table with our yummy snacks and delicious wine to do what else? Shoot the shit as I like to say. GNO ~ Girl's Night Out~ usually consists of a few things. One, food. Two, drinks baby. Three, gossip. Yes we know it is wrong but we can not help ourselves okay. Four, confessions and actual deep conversation. And last week was no exception. My posse consists of Denise, my bestest friend of eighteen years. Denise is the true love of my life. She is awesome and there are not enough words to describe her. Honestly. Denise is the kind of friend who there is not an adequate way to describe her. Shannon, whom I have also known for eighteen years. She worked on the yearbook with...

This One's For The Girl's (Martina McBride) It all started about a year ago, at our Ten Year High School Reunion. While most of us had been in contact off and on over the year's, the Girl's Night out plan was born only a year ago. These are women I have known for a minimum of 12 years. Women who when I met them were young girl's. I have since wondered on more than one occasion what it is that ties us together. We have seen each other through more than most of our husband's have seen us through. We have been together for over half of our lives. We watched each other grow up and change. And accepted it all. These are women who have watched me cry over my first boyfriend and visited me when I had my first baby. These are women who got Taco Bell with me at midnight and who have joined me for brunch at Andre's. These are women who have drank so much with me that we held each other's hair out of the toilet and who have sipped a nice glass of wine with me in re...