Day 36 of 365 Days of Being Thankful

     Today I am thankful that I went to dinner with my dinner group friends! We meet every other month for dinner.  It is always nice to have the dinner to look forward too!  My friend Candy arranged the dinner and just started a Facebook page for our group! All of the women in the group are so nice!   I have never heard one woman in this group ever say anything negative about another person unless we're criticizing our own husbands! There is something special about being with a group of all women in roughly the same age group from the same area and school district history.  My older kids went to school with their kids. Candy and Carol, die hard Eagles fans, were decked out in their Eagles gear. Half the people in the bar next to our room were decked out in Eagles shirts and hats!  Every once in awhile we could hear them shouting E A G L E S!
   It was so nice to sit at a round table because we could all see and hear each other. So many things have changed in all of our lives since we first met. Most of us have grandchildren.  Some have gotten divorced, some have medical problems with their children or spouses, I lost my daughter Amy, and some have lead charmed healthy lives.  There really is so rhyme or reason why some things happen. I, for one, do not think that everything happens for a reason. My friend Jackie just found out that her daughter is pregnant! And sadly, tonight I found out about a family that just lost their second daughter.  I don't know them well, but it is just such sad news. The ONLY thing worse than losing a child is losing more than one.

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