Girlies

Dear friends,
I've been thinking about all the friends that I've had through the years. Some have been around since diapers and others have just been in my life only a few weeks. I remember a certain time in school when it was a silent understanding that the more friends you had, the more important that you seemed. The reason I'm blogging about this is because It brings a new light to friendship when you watch your children form thier friendships. I pray that in a pile of coins they will find the value of a handful of the older, more worn coins to be worth so much more than a bucket of shiny new ones.
I can remember back in Grade school forming a couple friendships that I believe now to be the root of who I became. My girlies were with me through the green hair phase(swimming pools). The sneaking out to smoke pot. Getting caught after being dropped off by some losers from a party (in hind sight that was stupid). Then climbing through the jungle of her backyard. We laughed our booties off in the back yard for 1/2 hour before making it to the front door only to stop laughing when the light turned on and an angry step Mom pulled the door open faster than I ever thought possible..Ok I was still a little high so everything should've been slower to me. lol. We were in big trouble but it was O.K because we were in it Together. My Adventures with Jeni were worth it!! If my daughter ever asks, I will deny this!
Friendships that started when I was young seemed to have no strings attatched. Noone expected you to be anything different than who you were. This doesn't mean that I didnt argue over which Madonna song was the best or whose hair was higher...but I never felt like i had to mold into what anyone else wanted me to be.
I remember the summer Fair that I couldnt miss a single day of. We would wear our Black concert T's and walk around the Fairgrounds over and over and over again. Teasing our hair as high as it would go and leavng the house in a cloud of  Aqua Net hairspray, we were so Cool! Drinking Boones wine in a barn listening to Metallica  and Guns n Roses. Even a phone call that changed my middle school life. A friend had passed away in a car accident and my girly didnt want me to be alone when I heard the news. A few  years later I would be the one comforting her at her fathers funeral. We spent almost every summer together. Some awesome times. If she called today and needed me, I'd drop everything and Go!
Friendships didnt need to be thought about back then, they just happened. The girl who was most popular seemed so cool to me because I thought she would never feel alone. In reality though, she might have always had friends around her but how many of them knew when she was crying on the inside? I admit I was afraid of being alone. Afraid my true friends would find someone better than me, but in the end it was a waste of time being afraid. My girlies never went anywhere. Did we meet boys that would take up more of our time? Yes, but when they broke our hearts we still had each other. We just grew strength from each other to go out and Break their Hearts. :)
Friendships change through the years according to where u are in your life and growing a family. Mothers know that its a lot harder to find time to go out with the single ladies and tend to spend more time with other moms that understand that Cocktails and Babysitters are like Heaven. Ive been lucky in my Life. I can say that I have surrounded myself with great friends and if I have to vent about my insensitive hubby or cranky kids or even about these horrible cramps I have someone to call and I know they will answer the phone and tell me thier life sucks too...lol
Im blessed to have made those friendships and many more through out the years, and even more blesssed now that I have my own family of friends or shall I say Girlies?
Make new Friends but keep the old ones, One is silver and the other gold.
                                                           *Kiki