friends

i am so rich. . .friend rich that is. today was just a day full of friends. old friends, new friends, comfortable friends and complex friends. but friends nonetheless!

today, in the midst of all the phone calls and e-mails that a normal day now consists of, i found myself remembering eric and i's first few years of marriage. i guess you could say friends then, were few and far between. i remember celebrating our 2nd new years as young marrieds and all we wanted the next year to bring us was friends. to walk beside us, to have fun with us and even to challenge us. all that and more did the third year bring.

now i am overflowing with friendships! from old friends like mandy to new ones like rhonda, this girl cannot be more blessed with close friends of all kinds!

i once heard it said that friendship is when someone knows everything about you and loves you anyway. that is definately true in my case. these girls have so much dirt on me, you can't even imagine!!! but they continue to love me . . . no matter what . . . the beauty of their friendship will never cease to amaze me.