The Steel Magnolia's

Once...when I was young, I had the best friends any one person could ask for.  We did everything together.  Church, School, sharing baby sitting jobs, riding bikes around the neighborhood, just hanging out.  There were five of us, each different in our own way, yet also so much alike.  We shared our hopes and dreams, our plans for the future, our secrets.  Never did we ever believe we would be without one another, we just thought we would always be around.  But time and life have a way of changing even the best laid plans.  And so it was that we drifted apart, one going this way, another that way, each in a different direction.  Life gave us each what it had planned for us, and some of it was not always good so it seems.  But we have survived this life so far and we have proven once again how strong we really are.  We all got married, most of us had kids, and now our children are having children, yes, time passes on.  But then a miracle happened, and thanks to modern technology we found each other again and like there had never been any years between us we struck up right where we left off.  Friendship is like that you know.  It's a kinship between souls, an unseen bond that defies the test of time.  I love these women with a love I can't explain, they made me smile when I was blue and they still do.  We were there for each other through thick and thin, and I can promise you it will be that way still.  This weekend we are getting together for a long overdue friends reunion.  The reunion of the Steel Magnolia's.  Coming from all over to be together and share our dreams once more.  Plus, share our heartaches and blessings from the past.  It will be a great time I am sure, one of many reunions to come God willing.  I look forward to hugging my old friends and laughing and crying and doing all the things we used to do.  Friendship...is there anything more wonderful in a persons life.  This lady loves her friends, and you know...she knows they love her back.  Yes life is good...and all is right in the world again.