It was just for one night, but I don't know why we don't do this more often - leave our husbands and our children and come together as women for a day of relaxation, of talking with one another, of laughing and reminiscing and playing catch-up because life is going by so fast.
I needed this weekend. I have been looking forward to it for weeks. I needed to be near my sisters - to soak them up; I am lonely without them. I needed to hug my mom. I don't get to do that enough. I needed to see my aunties and my girl cousins. I needed to stay up late and sleep in. I needed to put on my calendar, along with those fabulous women around me, a date for this summer to get together again. Another girls' weekend to look forward to; something to sustain me as we dive head-first into the end of this school year and start filling up the long and busy summer ahead. It is written in pen; so it shall be.
My sweet and darling cousin is getting married in June - a June bride, is there anything more romantic and lovely? Soon she will be a wife; maybe someday she will be a mother. As her life inevitably picks up speed, I hope she remembers takes time for herself. I hope she remembers to rely on the women who surrounded her this weekend to shower her with love and support, because that's really what we women - sisters, mothers, aunties, cousins - need to do for each other more often: give each other love and support as much on the days that are plain and ordinary as we do on the ones that are momentous.
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