My friends and I had done a really good job for several years to plan monthly Girls Nights Out.  We would gather in a restaurant for hours recapping kid issues, stories about family and how we were balancing work/life or stay at home mommyhood/life.  I loved that night month.

Then life happened and we got away from it.  We would all say we needed to do it but there would be kid parties, family obligations or plans.  But we found a night.  And decided no restaurant wanted us as long as we were planning to gab.  I got home at 1:30am that night.  So needed.  And so in sync are we that two of us brought the same dessert to celebrate finally getting together!

The next day was a college reunion of sorts.  My two great college friends and I got together with our husbands and children for a BBQ.  There are six kids among us and 16 years of friendship- the kind of friends you can pick up right where you left off.

It was the kind of weekend I needed!