Relationships

As you get older you get busy with work, family, keeping up a house and everything else under the sun.  These commitments make it very hard to keep up relationships with friends.  It takes extra work to maintain friendships or those friendships will sizzle away and once you find good friends you want to keep them.  As everyone knows, good friends are very hard to find.  If you are anything like me, good friends are definitely very hard to find. 

I have found a group of amazing friends and I don't want those friendships to sizzle so I do my part (or at least I try...very hard) to maintain these friendships.  I am not the best phone person, OK, I suck at phone calls, so I utilize social media, emails and text messages.  I may not be the best at that either, but I certainly try.  There are also some friendships that will outlast any length of separation, but those can be even harder to find.

With that said, we don't get to see our good friends the Reitz's much.  Ok, not at all anymore since they live in Mexico (aka Tempe) and that is quite the drive from our house.  Plus, they have priorities, like Ella, their toddler...who is adorable by the way.  Anyway, they decided to have us over this past Saturday night for tacos and drinks.  I was looking forward to this since I never see them and I would consider them good friends.  We had such a nice night with them and another couple, the Smiths, eating Kim's fabulous pork tacos and drinking homemade margaritas.  Since they live in Mexico I only had one margarita so I could drive Andy home.  Kim's shredded pork tacos were so yummy that I definitely need that recipe.  The Smith's also have a toddler and to see Ella and Brady play together was absolutely adorable.  Surprisingly it did not scare me away from wanting to be a mother, like it always has in the past.  Maybe that is because both kids were very well behaved and played really well together, or maybe it's because I am getting older...and wiser.  :) 

Anyway, we had an awesome night with our friends and it's very important to maintain your friendships because it's hard to come by good friends these days!