Got friends?

Let me tell you a little something about me.

I need people around to make me happy, keep me laughing and see the positive in life.

When we moved to Tracy a year ago, I was still on my high from doing thee most exciting things with thee most exciting girls in Oregon. I mean, a girls week in Portland is the ultimate way to spend summertime with your girls. Dancing til 2 AM, eating anything and everything, being on the Oregon Coast. It was bliss, I tell ya.

Then we moved to Tracy and I stayed busy for a few months. Setting up the house, getting the family on a schedule, learning about Tracy. Skyping nightly with my girls.

Before long, I was back up in Portland, hanging with my same girlfriends, holiday shopping, eating buckets of movie popcorn, watching the same movie over and over again, ooohing over the "Sexiest Man Alive" Issue of People magazine.

A month later I was headed to Vegas with my bestie for a quick weekend of dancing til dawn (it's my favorite) and lazing around.

After the fun dust settled, I started getting lonely. WAH? I want my girls. I want to sing, "Shake It" and "Burning Up" at the top of my lungs with The Farmer, as we fly on the highway to here, there and everywhere. I want to sing "All the Single Ladies" and re-enact the dance in Lou's living room. I want to laugh when The Canadian shares with me that they have loonies and toonies for coins and us all wondering where the pole dancers put their tips? Where can I get that friendship high again? I wanted it. I needed it.

So then I started looking for other stay-at-home mamas. I mean, I was new to this stay at home mama-ness. Where are these other ladies hiding? Come out, come out, wherever you are.

In the late Winter, some messed up paperwork had Ella switching dance classes. And I had the chance to meet some awesome mamas. And we had girls the same age, and we were all crafty, and we all were kind of on the same level. And at first it was just, "see ya next Tuesday." And then it turned into rapid fire FB messages on each others walls, random text messages, phone calls and now it's turned into hanging out on non ballet days, and summer music in the park, and, and, and, I got my friend high back!

It's a new season of friends in my life and I am so grateful that they are here! So grateful for the giggles they bring to my daily life, and the mama lessons they have taught me so far.