New Babies

This blog is a little late but I've been (im)patiently waiting for Bono to send me pictures so that I could write about the new baby! Most people know that I've had the same group of girlfriends for years. The nine or so of us have been friends for as long as we can remember. Some of the girls met in kindergarten, some of us in second grade, a few of us in middle school -- but by high school, the nine of us were a group. We rarely went places without each other. We did group trips where most, if not all, of us would travel together to places like Florida & Montreal. I was very lucky to have met such wonderful girls. As time goes on, we continue to grow up and do different things and go different places and separate but I think the one thing about us is that when you put us all in a room together, it's like we've never left each others' sides and we're all still 15. I love my girls very much and I hate that we're growing up and doing different things.
Some of us have moved away. Mariel went to Washington State for a while, I lived in South Carolina, PJ lives in Tennessee, Marissa in Providence, RI. Some of us moved back. Marissa is a doctor now. Beth is a nurse. It's weird to think that some of us are so grown up. PJ was the first of us to get married back in 2006. Now, she's the first of us to have a baby. Abigael Jeanne was born on July 5th. Joe, her husband, was able to come home from Afghanistan to be there for the birth of their first child. Abigael is absolutely beautiful and I could not be more happy or proud of PJ and Joe.
It's a scary thought - us growing up. I still can't believe sometimes that I'm getting married or that I own a house... forget the fact that PJ has a husband and a baby! Life goes awfully fast but hopefully we're still taking time for one another in 20 years like we do now.