Friends ...

I consider myself extremely lucky when it comes to friendships. I have a vast and very diverse group of friends. There are the childhood friends, high school friends,college friends,mommy friends ect ect...
I think that strong and true friendships is one of life's greatest blessings. Even if you don't see or talk with people as often as you wish you could, friends are those people that you know will always be there when you need them.

This past summer I did the Susan G. Koman 3 day walk for the cure in Boston with a group of women from all over the country. It was a life changing 3 days to say the least, walking 60 miles in 3 days was the least of it. The range of emotions, the touching stories, the people lining the streets cheering it was like nothing I can ever explain. But during those 3 days I built some amazing friendships, some of these women I had never met before these 3 days have now become like family to me. We are there for each other during the daily ups and downs of life, they are the first ones I call or text with news(either good or bad). I know that if I needed them these women would stop at nothing to be there for me. There are very things in life as precious as true friends, so take the time to tell those people you truly cherish just how much they mean to you.

Promises Promises

In life we constantly make promises, to our kids, to our partners, to our jobs, even to ourselves. The problems start when we can't keep all of our promises. Sometimes we make promises and life gets in the way of keeping them, sometimes we make them and then realize that they were a mistake, sometimes we make them and then it just becomes to hard to keep up or end of them. Each week,month,year,day I promise myself I will eat better, I will work out, I will stop eating junk. I do okay for a few days(or hours but who is counting) and then I go back to my old ways.
I promise myself I will leave my phone alone at night when I am home with my family and my kids, and then I check it quickly and lose myself in it for hours at a time.

8 years ago I promised my husband in front of our friends and family that I would love,honor,respect and love him till death do us part. I haven't always kept up my end of those promises. I am not saying I don't love my husband or the life we have together, but some where along the way I stopped putting in as much effort as a marriage requires. Life gets in the way of promises and unless we make them a daily priority it can spiral out of control. Recently I have noticed I take my husband and our relationship for granted, I stopped putting in the effort, we stopped making our marriage a priority. This isn't good for us and it isn't good for our family. So this month I am going to make the extra effort, each week I am going to try and do something(be it something small) to let me husband know that our marriage, our family, our life together is a priority to me. That the life we have built means more to be then he will ever know....