Awesomeness!!

Okay, this may be a little mushy with a side of cheese but I've been thinking about this and wanted to put this out in the universe to show my gratitude for what I have.

Today I had lunch with a bunch of awesome friends, one of which is visiting from Australia so we all got together to catch up-yeah, I'm internationally known...its awesome!! Anyhoo, growing up I didn't have all that great of luck with friends. My best friend in elementary school moved away in the 4th grade and then I had nobody that wanted to play with me. (cry cry) I did have one friend after that, we had a common interest in playing Barbie's which got pretty intense, very serious stuff-one time Barbie's ex came back and he tried to kill her by putting her head in the dishwasher while it was running. That was good times! That went on till about the 8th grade and we were in different grades so we kind of grew apart-still friends just not hanging out much. I found a group of friends to play with but through middle school they would often decide that I needed some humbling and tear up our BFF cards, ignore and/or call me names etc. It often got to the point that I was border line suicidal, didn't want to get out of bed much less go to school. It happened more than once, unfortunately. High school was much better, I had some good friends, one of which is my bestest friend ever in the whole wide world and we will probably be buried together whether she wants to be or not...creepy.....High school ended and everyone went their different ways and I was very lonely. I read my old journal the other night and wow! I was lonely and sad. Sorry, I didn't mean for this to be so sad- onward to happy things....

As some of you may know from reading an early blog (see: 100 things about me) I went on a trip to Mexico with a bunch of relative strangers. Out of that trip I gained some awesome friends and from then on I seemed to always have a group of the greatest friends! I don't know how or why this happens I am frankly surprised people even like me since I am pretty high on the dork factor. But somehow they get paid or shockingly enough see through the dork or love me in spite of the dork I don't know what but it is awesome. As I have been thinking on this I realized what a gift this was from my Father in Heaven. I had so little of what I needed (friendship) growing up that he is giving it to me now 100 fold when it really counts. The friends I had when I was little are not apart of my life now except for my bestest friend in the whole wide world but we met when I was 15 so I wasn't so little. my point is...what is my point....Oh yeah, friends are more important to me now than they have ever been-we help each other, make each other laugh, hug when we need a good cry and share the burdens of life in ways I don't think any of us ever really understood in high school. And now is when I have the BEST friends ever!!! Today was a great reminder of that! Sometimes I feel like my childhood was preparatory for the awesomeness of my life now so I'll never forget how it was.

I'm just so grateful for what God as given me! I have everything I always wanted-my awesome hubby, beautiful girls that drive me to drink but make me laugh and smile on the way to the liquor store, and I have the greatest friends in the world! I don't know how I got so lucky but boy howdy I sure did! Thanks, friends!!