THESE WORDS ARE SO TRUE....HERE'S TO MY GIRLFRIENDS.
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> I sat under an oak tree in Wyoming on a summer day, drinking iced tea and
visiting with my mother. "Don't forget your girlfriends", Mother advised,
> clinking the ice cubes in her glass. No matter how much you love your
husband, you are still going to need girlfriends. Remember to go places
> with them now and then; and do things with them, even when you don't
necessarily want to, And remember that girlfriends are not only friends,
> but sisters, daughters, mothers, grandmothers and other relatives too.
Women supporting and relating to other women is our responsibility and our
> gift. "What a funny piece of advice," I thought. "Hadn't I just gotten
married? Hadn't I just joined the couple-world? I was now a married woman,
> for goodness sake, not some young girl who needed friends!"
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> But I listened to my Mom. I kept in contact with my girlfriends and even
found some new ones along the way. As the years tumbled by, one after
> another, I gradually came to understand that Mom really knew what she was
talking about!
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> Here is what I know about girlfriends:
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> ***girlfriends bring casseroles and scrub your bathroom when you need help
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> ***girlfriends keep your children and your secrets.
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> ***girlfriends give advice when you ask, sometimes you take it and
sometimes you don't.
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> ***girlfriends don't always tell you you're right, but they usually tell
the truth.
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> ***girlfriends still love you, even when they dis agree with your choices.
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> ***girlfriends laugh with you and don't need canned jokes to start the
laughter.
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> ***girlfriends pull you out of jams.

> ***girlfriends don't keep a calendar of who hosted the other's last big
party.
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> ***girlfriends will celebrate for your son or daughter when they get
married or have a baby, in whichever order that happens.
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> ***girlfriends are there for you in an instant, and when the hard times
come,
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> ***girlfriends listen when you lose a job or a friend.
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> ***girlfriends listen when your children break your heart.

> ***girlfriends listen when your parents' minds and bodies fail.
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> My daughters, sisters, family, and friends bless my life! When we began
this adventure, we had no idea of the incredible joys or sorrows that lay
> ahead. Nor did we know how much we would need each other..... Pass this on
to your girlfriends/sisters/daughters.. I just did!

LC - Love the poem. By the way, I could use something for supper and all five bathrooms need a little work.

peggy you have 5 bathrooms???? ummm since school will be starting here soon is there anyway i could come over in the mornings and get ready for work??? i'll bring a casserole and i will clean up when i am done. we have THE smallest bathroom here and yes just one. there are 5 of us and 2 are teenagers!!! there is no hope of me getting in ours unless i start getting up at 4am.

lc i love this poem it is soooo true!! thanks for sharing.

Thank you for sharing that, Little Chick! It's right on. (male gay friends are great, too!)

My gosh, Peggy. I would DEMAND a cleaning person with five bathrooms! Our neighbours at the cottage have five bathrooms in their cottage, while we have a measly outhouse.

Jodi, you deserve another bathroom! I'm so grateful to have two. Particularly as the attic toilet is still dismantled. Waiting for me to retile the darned floor. Somebody give me a hundred grand, and I'll get my life in order.

Ellis - We are in the same boat with our bathrooms. We are rennovating our house to get ready to downsize - it needs work because it is looking its age. We have done 3 bathrooms already and have 2 left to do. They cost about 11,000 - 12,000 each, so it has been a slow process. Along with replacing doors, installing hardwood floors, redoing the woodwork in the house... Oh the woes of rennovating. However, when done, we will inform the kidlets still living in the house that we are moving to a 1 (yes, only 1) bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment and they are not welcome to take the bedroom as their own. One can dream, right?