Blessing

I have been so lucky to have so many amazing and unique friends. Why get caught up in the ugly? Today I focus on the great.

Even thou we don't talk often I have a best friend that I have been friends with since the 6th grade. I think of her often and we are on very different life track but she is an amazing. I will always love her and I know she will always love me and my family. We unfortunately don't talk as often as I like but I know if I call we will take off right where we ended.

I have friends from college I keep up with online mostly these day but one in particular I miss and only wish I could spend more time with. I know he would welcome me with open arms anytime I visit or call. Please add more hours to the day or days of the week so at one point I can get a vacation to Pittsburgh and spend a great weekend with a dear friend.

Then the friend I meet threw my husband Keith. Again time and lives have gone in different directions but I know they keep an eye on me as do I on them. A few have a really great band and even tho I don't get to see them, I feel like I get to support our friendship by staying home and watching the kids so Keith can get out and support them. We have had some really fun times together and many of them around music.

Next the friends we made when we moved to Western MD. When Hunter was 4 month I joined a local playgroup and many of us even 5 years later with tons of kids all going in different directions still keep in contact via facebook and occasionally catch up on special event playdates and birthday. I know we all send messages and text to support each other threw up and downs. One however has always been there for me and I hold her very dear to my heart. She is always on the other end ready to get kids together or help out in any way possible. I only hope I can be as good of a friend to her as she has been to me. Plus I have another girlfriend who helped me threw the years in western MD whom I don't get to see or talk to as much as I once did, sometimes I wonder if she knows where her phone is...lol. However when ever we get a chance to catch by phone or in person I feel so extremely happy and relaxed. When I was pregnant with the triplets and hospitalized over and over again. It didn't matter what time of day or night she took Hunter in and loved him and cared for him. There are no words to express how grateful we are to her for what she did for us all. I spent many days just hanging out with her and our children on her couch. I have to get bugging her again with summer around the corner to make a playdate for the kids. Its been to long.

Now I have friends for the multiples groups, frederick playgroup I never joined but I met one of my dearest friends, just moving and shaking threw town, RUNNING and Infants and Todders, a county program. I could write for hours because threw these experience I have meet so many amazing people. People that withouts help, love and support I would not be in one piece today.

Which is why when I asked myself today why I let the words of 4 people I met over the last 5 years carry any merit, I did not know. I started this blog entry to focus on what I had and once I got to this last group of friends I realized I had to many dear friends to mention. I would be here forever, there is not enough time to honor each one the way they deserve. I have so many friends that are absolutely great and by allowing the ugly to dictate how I feel is actually dishonoring what I have. I am so blessed. I wouldn't have as many wonderful people in my life if I wasn't doing something right. Now I have to focus on how to build and be grateful to the ones who love me for who I am now.

Thank you my friends for just being who you are. You are exactly who you and I love that.