Girl's Night Out

* new story at Cassie today.

I had another great weekend.  Not with Nick, he’s gone golfing.  Maybe next weekend we’ll spend it together, but I really enjoyed this one anyway.  Friday night I did something I’ve wanted to do for a long, long time.  It’s one of those things you think about, but often never get around to actually doing.  I had a girl’s night out – but not your typical one.

I asked my mother’s three best friends out to eat.  My mom passed away nine years ago last month.  She was the oldest of her close friends – all we kids were about the same age, but mom had me late.  Mom would be ninety-three now, all these ladies are in their mid-eighties.  They were all school teachers for more than thirty years.  In fact one was my first grade teacher.  One walks slowly with a cane now, one is recovering from a stroke and the other one just lost her husband two months ago.  But as we sat eating and visiting I didn’t think of those things. 

We had a ball!  They all still go to my church – in fact seven of my teachers from 1^st – 8^th grade went to my church and both of my principals in elementary and high school.  I had no choice but to behave myself at school!  We talked about everything!  Sometimes there were a few tears, but they were the good kind.  We talked about Mama some – two of these ladies had come to see mom less than 12 hours before she passed. One had brought her a frosty and they remembered Mollie sitting on her bed feeding it to her.

It was a good evening.  They had all seemed surprised when I’d called and invited them.  But by the end of the night they were all saying that that evening had been exactly what they needed, they just hadn’t known it.  I got three good hugs as I took each of them home.  I’m glad I did it instead of just thinking about it until it was too late.  I care about these  ladies and it was as close as I could come to having dinner with my Mama.