All I Need to Know About Life,

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Valentine for My Girlfriends
or
All I Need to Know About Life I Learned From My Girlfriends
(Playing ~ "Remember")

I am so blessed to have many girlfriends. Each one has added a dimension to my life that
is indescribable. Many of us go way back to our early years together at church, community
or school; others of us bonded in college, or later at work, after marriage, and in a new city.

As girlfriends, our friendships are so different from anything that men usually
share or can even understand. We have laughed together, cried together, sung together,
talked about everything and anything on the phone together, prayed together, gone on trips together,
shopped together. We have given and received support and, in general, allowed each other a
comfort zone for "letting our hair down." I am grateful for the love and friendship of each one.

This page is dedicated to all my girlfriends, wherever you are.... I love each one of you !

All I Need to Know .......

Good times are even better when they're shared.
A good long talk can cure almost anything.
Everyone needs someone with whom to share their secrets.
Listening is just as important as talking.
An understanding friend is better than a therapist and cheaper, too.
Laughter makes the world a happier place.
Friends are like fine wine, they get better with age.
Sometimes you just need a shoulder to cry on.
Great minds think alike, especially when they're female.
When it comes to bonding, females do it better.
You are never too old for slumber parties.
Girls just want to have fun.
It's important to make time for "girl things".
Calories don't count when you're eating with your girlfriends.
You can never have too many shoes.
Gems may be precious, but friendship is priceless.

~ author unknown

Get Some Girlfriends

Young and newly married, I relaxed under a pecan tree on a hot Texas Summer day, drinking iced tea and getting
to know my new sister-in-law, Estelle. Not much older than I, but already the mother of three, Estelle seemed to me
experienced and wise.

"Get yourself some girlfriends" she advised, clinking the ice cubes in her glass. "You are going to need girlfriends.
Go places with them; do things with them."

What a funny piece of advice, I thought. Hadn't I just gotten married? Hadn't I just joined the couple-world?
I was a married woman, for goodness sake, not a young girl who needed girlfriends.

But I listened to this new sister-in-law. I got myself some girlfriends. As the years tumbled by, one after another,
gradually I came to understand that Estelle knew what she was talking about. I remembered that she had said the word
"girlfriends" with emphasis.

As I went along, I discovered the subtle difference between friends and girlfriends.

You go to work with friends, go to dinner with friends, go to church with friends, belong to clubs with friends.
You send friends greeting cards.

You need friends in your life; all girlfriends were once only friends. But a girlfriend is different.
I offer this praise of girlfriends.

Here is what I know about girlfriends: Girlfriends don't compete. Girlfriends bring casseroles and scrub
your bathroom when you are sick. Girlfriends keep your children and keep your secrets.

Girlfriends give advice when you ask for it. Sometimes you take it, sometimes you don't. Girlfriends don't always
tell you that you're right, but they're always honest.

Girlfriends still love you, even when they don't agree with your choices. Girlfriends might send you a birthday card,
but they might not. It does not matter in the least.

Girlfriends laugh with you, and you don't need canned jokes to start the laughter. Girlfriends don't talk about you
behind your back. Girlfriends pull you out of jams.

Girlfriends don't keep a calendar that lets them know who hosted the other last. Girlfriends will give a party
for your son or daughter when they get married or have a baby in whichever order that comes!

And girlfriends are there for you, in an instant and truly, when the hard times come. Girlfriends listen when you lose
a job or a husband. Girlfriends listen when your children break your heart.

Girlfriends listen when your parents' minds and bodies fail. My girlfriends bless my life. Once we were young,
with no idea of the incredible joys or the incredible sorrows that lay ahead.

It makes all the difference.

~ author unknown

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words,
but pour them out, just as they are, chaff and grain together,
Knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keep what is worth keeping,
And then with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Remember When ...

Our giggles and smiles and silly adventures
found homes in our hearts forever.

We discovered the treasure of friendship
too good to be forgotten.

Old songs and best friends still take us
back to believing in dreams again ...

We crossed our hearts,
and promised each other
to always cherish
the laughter, loving, sharing ...
the treasure that is our friendship.

~author unknown

Being a Girl

Being a girl is where it's at.
I'm proud, sometimes loud,
and I know how to have fun.
I am who I am (and then some) !

I may be small, but my dreams are BIG !
Helping people, being strong and
always staying true to myself.
My future lies in my own two hands,
not in a crystal ball.

Being a girl is awesome.
Girlfriends share bubble-gum,
bear hugs, and lots of super-secrets.
My friends are like my clothes ...
I can't have enough of them !

Being a girl is about letting
loose and trying new things.
Wearing make-up, getting dressed up,
hair back, down or up ...
I am as unique on the outside
as I am on the inside.

Being a girl is really cool.
Open heart, latest shoes ...
I'm always going someplace special
with something important to do.

I am a girl in my heart
and I will be,

FOREVER !

~ author unknown

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