Nurture your Friendships

Your Momma never told you...friendships need to be nurtured over time.

Ladies...I just got back from a beautiful resort hotel in Atlantic City where I had a fantastic spa getaway with a girlfriend from college. We decided to just get a room for a night...spend time talking, getting treatments, laying by the pool, drinking cocktails, eating fine food, shopping, and catching up on old times.

It took a lot of planning and coordinating of kids,schedules,family, pre-planned vacations, and work...but we found a date and stuck to it. I can not tell you how I was looking forward to seeing her and hearing about what is going on in her world....while laying by the pool of course. We spent hours and hours just talking about life, our children, our past, our disappointments, our families, our successes, and hopes for the future. It was amazing....I learned so much from our conversations.

My point...ladies...if you want to keep your friendships intact....you have to be willing to put the work in to keep them going. No matter how long you have been friends with someone...it is important to make time to sit down and spend time with them. A text here or there...or an email here or there...does not cut it. You have to commit to getting together face to face in order to maintain and nurture a friendship. You never know how much you may need them...or how much they may need you.

Ladies...we get so busy in our lives with our children, homes, husbands, and families...that sometimes forget to show how much we value our frienships. We simply forget to nuture our friendships with our girlfriends. So ladies...get to work and start to make spa dates, movie dates, dinner dates...without the kids...without the husbands...and take time to be a true friend to a friend.

Till Next Time Ladies.....