Ladies Who Lunch

I'll admit, I all too easily allow myself to get sucked into the vortex or work and home. I know no other way of being, at least not right now. My focus on work and home, although good intentioned, leaves me feeling a bit one dimensional. I know this is the theme song for so many parents. Too tired from a long week to even begin to think about plans outside of the mandatory.
I hit a new low after running into an old friend at the Costco food court on Saturday night with kids in tow. Here we were chatting over $1.50 hotdogs, simultaneously wiping hands and mouths and it felt GREAT.
Thankfully, on occasion you get pulled out of your vortex by friends, who praise Jesus, have enough energy to piece together an outing. You have lunch, you laugh, you reminisce about the ridiculous and you leave feeling energized, alive and ready to make more plans. You leave feeling that your life as a parent is both chock-full and isolating all at once but you are not alone. You leave knowing that the next time you see them, although it may be months, you will pick up right where you left off and you will leave feeling whole again.