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Last week, my girlfriend Lady Day and I met with our other dear friend, Julianne of Providence Lodge to celebrate Julianne's birthday. We met in a little restaurant for tea and spent the better part of the afternoon talking and talking and talking.
Lady Day, Julianne and I have been friends for many years. Our children have grown up together. We have celebrated with each other, cried with each other and occasionally been irritated with each other.
Our collective children, when they were younger, were affectionately known as "The Locust" because they would eat us out of house and home whenever we spent the day together. While our husbands would talk over the problems of the world, we ladies would encourage one another. We would share our hearts, snuggle our children and drink cup after cup of tea.
As our children have grown older, our get togethers have become depressingly infrequent. We still make time for birthday celebrations and an occasional afternoon visit, however we rarely have an opportunity to get all of the families together. The children have grown, many of them have married and begun their own families.
The ones left at home are busy, all going their separate ways. Now, rather than tending small children, wiping noses and cuddling babies, we are talking about weddings and grand babies and our changing roles in life. Continue reading
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