For girl night tonight we met at Nicole's house and made cake platters using two plates and a candlestick holder. When Kelli arrived and everyone saw her darling plates that she had found at Target from the new Liberty of London collection, we all decided to head to Target to buy some new plates.
They were so simple to make and turned out great.
They took all of five minutes to do and then we had the rest of the night to spend talking until the wee small hours of the morning. It is interesting to me how we came together this group we call "girl night". Heidi, Laurie and I all lived at Aix La Chapelle by each other and wanted to start a Bunko group. So we all invited a few friends to join us once a month, on the second Thursday, to have dinner and play a fun game. We all were either pregnant with our first babies or just had them. So Olivia came every month and her sister came a few times. Nicole was always there and even when we didn't have enough people coming regularly to play Bunko we would still all get together. When Laurie's sister Kelli moved here from Texas she came every month with her best friend Carol. Perhaps this is what a friendship gives us. The real mirror of your life and soul is your true friend. A friend helps you to glimpse who you really are and what you are doing here. So sometimes, inexplicably, we'll meet someone who is a kindred spirit. And for a little while, in their company, we don't feel alone, we don't feel like a stranger. This person seems to know us so well - our interests, concerns, values. He or she shares our passions. There's an easy familiarity, an intimacy in an hour that takes years with others, if it's ever achieved at all. We've met one of our people, and he or she is a friend to our soul. A pal so fabulous that we feel like twins separated at birth. Another like us.
A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. We may find a soul partner in many different forms of relationships. It is a rare form of intimacy, but is not limited to one person or to one form.
- T. Moore
