Ornament Exchange 2010

 It's one of my favorite days during the Christmas season...my ornament exchange! I love having girlfriends gather in my house for a few hours of Christmas cheer. Talking about what they are getting for their kids...their busy holiday schedules...their plans for Christmas...I just love it!  I just love them!

 There is just something about having a houseful of friends who you know you can count on...it just feels good..it feels warm inside. I am especially sentimental about my girlfriends this Christmas as one of the moms I have become friends with as school just discovered she is covered with cancer....just like that...all that she has she may have to say good bye to. She had surgery and is coming home for what may very well be her last Christmas with her kids...her family...her life.

 I usually say something at my ornament exchange...tell my girlfriends I love them and I am thankful for them...raise a glass...but not this year. This year as we sat in a circle getting ready to tear into the beautiful pile of ornaments...I just prayed for them..I prayed for them to be happy..and healthy...and to feel loved to their core.

It's always a fun night...of laughter..and friendship...and Christmas cheer...and I wish all my friends the Merriest of Christmases...and I hope they know I love them so very much...truly I do.

Ladies on the town!

We celebrated Felisha's birthday tonight in style...and truly we were a fashion statement in our fancy pink limo! Sarah Kate thought it was "the most car in the whole entire world"!


We  were ladies on the town so we headed to Corbits for cocktails......

Then it was another Limo Ride to Volare...and we laughed and danced all the way there!

At Volare we had a few drinks....yummy food and alot of fun! We presented Felisha with her birthday cake and sang to her...Happy Birthday and a little Stevie Nicks too!

After our fun time at Volare...the Limo ride to Molly Malones felt like a time warp to me....I felt free and fun...and that felt good to let go for a few minutes with some of my friends!

Molly Malones was a time of ups and down and a continued good time! Life was clearer for me at Molly Malones as I watched the young crowd swirl around me...and I felt old and out of place. I saw a group of girls watching as my friends danced around...judging them....and when I got the chance I told them that one day they might wake up and be married with four little kids and the nights out would be few and they would have to make the most of them.Their eyes softened and they smiled at us after that...we weren't cougars just hot momas out, on a rare occasion, celebrating a friend who needs a little celebration.... and it felt wonderful!

Happy Birthday Felisha!