Girls Day Out

So much of our lives are tied up with routine.  Housework, jobs, appointments, errands, all vying to eat up every spare and not so spare moment.  So every now and then, it is important to do something that's not routine, but special.  A special event that serves as an oasis from the desert of the routine.

One of those things, in my life, is a girl's day out.  It might not seem very exciting, I know.  Peaches has a very good friend she made in junior high school.  They are still the best of friends to this day.  As a matter of fact, her friend calls me mom, and Peaches, in turn, calls her friend's mom, mom.  Because of the girls friendship, I have gotten to be good friends with 'Mama #2' as Peaches calls her.  We have been in each other's corner through the trials of high school, the girls getting along, and not getting along, college, weddings, new houses, new jobs.  We don't even talk all that often, but she is one of those people that I mesh so easily with that we just seem to pick up right where we left off, even if it's weeks or months between visits.

Our girl's day out is usually lunch, then shopping, and sometimes a movie.  Nothing truly very exciting. Sometimes we're Christmas shopping.  It used to sometimes be back-to-school shopping.  Once it was wedding dress shopping, when she finally received the proposal from the man who has been part of her and Daughter #3's life since before we met.  But almost always, it's wandering around the stores as an excuse and backdrop for catching up on each other's lives.  The four of us laughing, eating, sharing, and caring...until we have 'shopped till we dropped'.

I know it might be weeks or months until we do this again, but I also know that the bonds will be there, the same as they always are, strong as ever.  And that it will be a joy for all four of us to share for years to come.