Just what I needed

After a day like today, I just needed to get out of the house, laugh and relax. 

My day wasn’t "horrible," as in anything huge or really bad happened, but just a bunch of tiny little things that piled on eachother made me sooo irritable.  Ok, mainly it was slow drivers and me having to drive all over the county of Jackson. 

This morning my mother-in-law wasn’t feeling well, and I was able to get ahold of Leslie and she was willing to watch P-man on such short notice for me.  Not a big change… Leslie lives just 5 minutes past my the school where I work.  Somehow I ended up being 15 minutes late for work this morning, after being stuck behind every slow driver possible.  (thank goodness teachers don’t have to clock in! I’d be in trouble when I get a full-time job… HAHA).  And that was the story of my day… I felt like all I did was run run run. Run to school, run to get Porter, run to get Aria, run home to feed Porter lunch.  I hate being so rushed all the time.  And, of course, everywhere I went I got stuck behind a slow driver going 10mph under the speed limit. When I’d get out from behind them, there was another slow poke waiting to frustrate me.  I was ready to have a tantrum like a two year old. 

My patience was running out, I was irritable and just wanted to take a nap. Had NO patience with Aria today and Porter cried for over an hour trying to go down for his nap.  Once Aria left, I headed right to bed to sleep for a few hours before meeting the girls for drinks at Darryl’s.

Let me tell you this- I feel SO lucky to have this group of girlfriends.  We met for drinks and food, and laughed, and joked and shared stories for nearly 3 hours. Most of our conversation was about the kids, pregnancy and labor and delivery (fun stuff, I know..), as three of us have babies under a year and Leslie is expecting.  It is so so SO wonderful to have friends who you can relate to and share stories and drama with.  At one point this evening I just sat back and though "WOW…. I am incredibly lucky to have such great friends who know exactly what life for me is like right now…." We are all in similar boats and it is just so great to have them to go through this journey of motherhood. 

When I was pregnant (I am sure I posted about this somewhere)… I was so worried that I wouldn’t have anyone to have playdates with.  A lot of my friends either already had kids who were a few years old, or didn’t have kids at all.  No one I was close with had babies… or were expecting.  I looked desparately for playgroups in my area and scoped out the other couples in our Birthing Classes at the hospital.  I wanted to meet people who knew what life for me was like, who were going through the same things I was going through.  I ran into Katie at the hospital when we were touring the L&D floor with our Birthing Class.  We had a college class together years ago (in my first year of college), but other than that we didn’t really know eachother all that well.  After I had Porter, we began hanging out.  And through Katie I met Heather.  And when Leslie became pregnant, she just fit right in, and we try to fill her in on all the excitement to come.  I am amazed that I went from being worried that I wouldn’t have anyone to talk to about baby stuff, to having this little group of girlfriends whose lives are so similar to mine right now.

Wow… I’ve gone off on a lost trail here haven’t I?  I just have to tell you girls, I am thankful for each of you.  Thank you for turning my sucky day around and being just what I needed!  You’re the best!