Gratitude #21

Catching up with long-lost friends.  Like this week, I went to Mi Ranchito at 3:00pm one day to meet up with Jill -- a friend from when my children were very small.  Prior to this week's visit we had seen each other only once in the past 16 years.  We ate, we talked, we laughed, we cried, we remembered, we caught up.  We dished on our spouses, we rehearsed the ups and downs of motherhood.  Most importantly, we made plans to meet up again. It won't be another 16 years.  It'll be next month for Christmas Cookie Day at my house. She was the first (and only) non-family member to ever do Cookie Day with me.  It's time we did that again! By the time we finished at Mi Ranchito, we had gone through two shifts of waiters and I was pulling out of the parking lot.  It was 8:07pm.