Family and Friends

This post won't be about running. Instead it's about friendship.

This weekend was our daughter's wedding. It was amazing and she was beautiful. Her new husband was pretty good looking too!

This is not the place to go into the details of the wedding and that is not my intent, but to say that day was hectic is a huge understatement. So much to be done starting at 10:30 in the morning to get the place decorated for the event. I thought that most of the day I would be worried and running around trying to get things done and would simply run out of time.

And there they were, my family and friends. I won't go into detail because it really doesn't do justice. What I will say is that friends who we rarely see now that we've moved showed up early to help set up, fix the bridesmaids and brides hair, and stayed late into the night to help clean up. Family who really have better thing to do were there to take over when it was time for me to play hostess.

Friends from college made their way to this wedding and it seemed like we were at a reunion, dancing, laughing, and catching up. And they too stayed to help us at the end.

When all was said and done what impressed me the most is that they were there for us. We all meet people early in our adult lives, people who at the time share common interests with us. Work, or kids activities, or a neighborhood. Slowly those people become friends years go by and things change. People leave to work elsewhere, kids activities change, we move to different cities and different careers, and yet in this time of celebration they were there for us. All of us together.

We laughed, we cried, we drank, we toasted. Sharing stories from college and then from our young married years. We danced alongside Taryn and her friends who are just now entering their young married years. We all know as we sit and watch what it will be like in their future with their young friends. And we all pray that like us they will all stay together and be able to enjoy the weddings of their children together. Good friends for the rest of our lives.