I remember singing as a child, "Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other is gold." As I sang that I wondered what that all meant and how I would never, ever have the need to have "silver" friends because I would never move beyond Shelley Street [the street I grewup on] and neither would any of my "gold" friends. Oh, I was so naive. Well as life has it, I grew up, went to college, got a job, moved, moved again, moved again, got married, and had a baby. Needless to say, I am a long way from Shelley Street today and now am a mom and a wife.
As a mom, I have had the fortune to have met and found some truly fantastic women. They are each uniquely intelligent, beautiful, hysterical, and loving. Along with all their many positively wonderful characteristics, they each come with their own little ones, who are equally as unique and amazing. I am thrilled to be able to see all these babies grow up and lay (which they are doing now), then crawl, then walk, then talk alongside Mae. I know she will value friends as much as Pearson and I. She, too, will realize that some days, you feel like wearing gold and other days you feel like wearing silver but being able to wear both is the mark of a great woman.
Photo of Mae last Thursday with her friend Edie at Madrona Playground.
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