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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday I got to spend the day with my best friend for the first time in awhile, just her and I for hours, until our husbands joined us later in the day. We\u2019ve all been working from home for months now so it was a safe environment at her house. We lounged in the sun in her pool for hours and day-drank yummy drinks and chit chatted about every topic under the sun. Then later our husbands brought food and spent time with us too.<\/p>\n
What a lovely day it was! Perfection, really.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been a long while since it was just her and me. Usually there\u2019s other people around and that\u2019s not a bad thing. We both love those other people just as much as we love each other. There\u2019s something to be said for the simplicity of one-on-one time with someone you trust explicitly, someone who isn\u2019t related by blood or marriage and knows all of your flaws but chooses to love and embrace you anyway. That\u2019s my best friend and I\u2019m so lucky to have her. I can only hope that I\u2019m as good a friend to her as she is to me.<\/p>\n
Sometimes everything is so horrible in the world that I forget to look around at the circle of people that are mine, that I\u2019ve chosen to trust and love in spite of their flaws. I forget to look at my own house and the life my husband and I have built. I forget to count my blessings and remember how lucky I am to be where I am and with the people I\u2019m with.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m reminded of that Alice Morse Earl quote: \u201cEvery day may not be good, but there\u2019s something good in every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead of getting bogged down by the state of the world, and also without sticking my head in the sand and pretending that everything is fine, I\u2019m gonna try to remember to find good things, however small and however simple, to notice in the day-to-day.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m lucky. I\u2019m thankful. I\u2019m grateful. All of these things in so many aspects of my life. It only took the simplicity of a day with my best friend in the sun to remind me of that.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s me yesterday with no makeup, no product in my hair, just content as can be. I was chillin\u2019, y\u2019all!<\/p>\n
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