January 3

I don't usually try to crash my kids' friend-outings, but I knew Abby was meeting Gracie at the Mother Ship this morning and it was unusually busy there, so I stuck around after I'd finished my coffee to hold a table.

The two of them have been friends for quite a long while now, so when I saw them together again for the first time in quite a while, it took me back in time to when they were younger; to when I was younger, too.

They're both wonderful young women now, but that little whiff of the way things were was a blessing on a rainy Friday morning.