Friends

I have the most amazing friends. 

They are caring, trustworthy and are accepting of me for being me. They are loyal and honest (even if it means telling me something that i may not wish to hear.) They are genuine and thoughtful and their friendship means a lot to me.

Truth be told i don't have a lot close friends. which just makes the ones i am closet to all the more special. 

It is weird to me that all 4 of my bestest friends are so completely different. And serve different roles in my life. To be honest with you never have all 4 of them been in the same room at the same time. But they have all seen me smile, shared with me a private joke in the company of others, Seen me sick and sad, Gotten rotten drunk with me, and stood by me through my mistakes, and been happy for me successes.

So one of the 4 is of course going to be my husband Andrew. He is amazing and i share everything with him, my life, my secrets, my thoughts, my hopes and dreams, and of course my future. I am sure that it may sound very cliched but i know this to be true.

And next of course is my BFF Ky. She is so amazing. Crazy and quite often in her own world. But the best thing is i love to visit that world with her. It is bordering on my world. Maybe because I have spent so much time there and i am so comfortable there. Or maybe because it is very similar to my world. I have known Ky the longest out of all my closet friends. I consider her to be more than just a friend. She is my little big sister. She knows me better than i am sure she cares to. We have been friends for many a years. (around 15 years) She has known me at my most foolish, and been my friend as i have grown. She understands my thought process and as she has shared my past she best understands how my past experiences affect my decisions. She knows what i stand for and has been the truest of friends.

Then there is Madonna. She and i didn't start out as friends. She was the sister of a past boyfriend. But truth be told we had a connection that her brother and i never shared. She was a mother at a young age. And an amazing mother at that.  (i became a mother at 21) She understood more than just the stage of life i was in. She is supportive and giving. Yet still understand the importance of having /making time to be more than just a mum. To connect with friends and to have enjoyment away from our kids. O am blessed to have her as a friend.

And the newest edition to the list is Julie. I have known Julie for 3 years. She is older than me and far more mature than any of the others on this list. She is extremely determined and sure of herself. Her influence on me is interesting to say the least, She is wiser than me and has had more experiences. She has a different perspective on everything. This means that we quite often disagree. Or should that be agree to disagree. I guess it would seem to most that we are unlikely friends, and i guess we kind of are. But the thing that make our friendship work is that despite our differences we respect each other. And value each other for the honesty and truth of character. We both are who we are. I never realized until now that we don't make sense. Because the truth of the matter is somehow we just do.

I am grateful to have such amazing people in my life. And hope that i have not offended anyone by not including them on my list, but these are my dearest friends. I do treasure all my friends and the individual relationships we have. It just feels nice to acknowledge those who mean so much and i have realized i do not tell them how much they mean to me, nearly often enough.

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