Monday, April 04, 2005

girlfriends

One day a while back, I sat on the porch overlooking a beautiful mountain lake on a summer day, enjoying a glass of wine with my Mom. Older than me, experienced and wise. "Get yourself some girlfriends," she advised, swirling the wine in her glass. "You are going to need girlfriends. Go places with them, do things with them." What a funny piece of advice, I thought. Hadn't I just gotten married? Hadn't I just joined the couple-world? I was a married woman, for goodness sake, not a young girl who needed girlfriends. But I listened to my Mom and I got back in touch with my old girlfriends of years long gone. As the years tumbled by, one after another, gradually I came to understand that Mom knew what she was talking about.

Here is what we need to know:
Girlfriends bring casseroles and scrub your bathroom when you are sick.
Girlfriends keep your children and keep your secrets.
Girlfriends give advice when you ask for it. Sometimes you take it,sometimes you don't.
Girlfriends don't always tell you that you're right, but they're usually honest.
Girlfriends still love you, even when they don't agree with your choices.
Girlfriends might send you a birthday card, but they might not. It does not matter in the least.
Girlfriends laugh with you, and you don't need canned jokes to start the laughter.

Girlfriends pull you out of jams.
Girlfriends don't keep a calendar that lets them know who hosted the other last.
Girlfriends will give a party for your son or daughter when they get married or have a baby, in whichever order that comes!
Girlfriends are there for you, in an instant and truly, when the hard times come.
Girlfriends listen when you lose a job or a husband.
Girlfriends listen when your children break your heart.
Girlfriends listen when your parent's minds and bodies fail.


these are my girlfriends. my best buds through thick and thin, ups and downs, happy and sad, heartaches and heartbreaks, getting a boyfriend or getting married.

Image hosted by Photobucket.comImage hosted by Photobucket.com

(L-R) Dionne, me, Anne, me again, Cri-c; not in the picture are Cathy, Mem, Lalaine (is in UK) & Mai (is in CA)

Image hosted by Photobucket.com

(L-R) Meg, Myra, Erly, me, Ellen (in front L-R) Pinky & Kateh

Image hosted by Photobucket.com

(L-R) Irene, me, & May

Image hosted by Photobucket.com

(L-R) me, Shego & Yang (not in the picture are Chincha & Netski)

4 comments:

jk said...

awww...
=)

ikaw din girlfriend ko, nde ko lang pwede mashado sabihin ng malakas lalo na pag madaming tao... baka mapagkamalan tayong... toot. hehehe...

=)

dionne said...

not exactly my most flaterring picture.. harhar! thanks girlfriend! :)

Beej said...

at least payat ka pa dyan sa pic na yan. btw, have you found a class we could enroll in?

dionne said...

yabang! :P

ala pa actually eh... may fitness first na sa rob place, kaya lang mahal eh.. lam mo naman nagtitipid lola mo. :)