{thirty days of thanks} old friends

our two recent trips to dallas have served to remind me of exactly how lucky i am to have such good good friends. the fact is that i lived in texas for twenty years and you just don't escape something like that without a few really meaningful relationships. i have friends that i've known for five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty. we've been there for each other through boyfriends, break-ups, bad hair, crazy classes, crappy jobs, not-so-crappy jobs, road trips, weddings, new homes, babies, in sickness and in health, till death do us part. we've laughed together and cried together and given advice and ignored advice and loved each other through it all. we may go months or longer without seeing each other but whenever we do we just seem to pick up right where we left off. there are no words that can express the ease and comfort of an old friendship. it just feels like home.