It is so nice to be home

All ten of our children (plus a visitor), and us girls.
Last night my family had the chance to meet with some people that I had grown up with.
People with whom I had spent a great deal of time with during my teenage years. People who had a great influence on me and the person I grew up to be.
It was so great to be able to introduce them to my family and show my husband a bit of my past. On the way home he commented on how impressed he was with my friends and on how I must have had a great childhood surrounded by friends like that.
And he is right, I was lucky enough to be surrounded by great friends who were almost more like family at times. It was nice to be there with those who have seen me at my best and at my worst and stiill accept me and welcome my family with open arms.
some of them I hadn't seen for three years others I hadn't seen in ten, yet we sat and talked as if nothing had changed. We have added spouses and children, but aside from that it is true, some things never change.......thankfully.