How often do you get to join up with friends from your past? Do you make a point to keep the relationships of the past in full swing throughout your life? It seems that we all have people in our lives who come and go, but there are those remote few people who you just click with and you want them there with  you through it all.

A couple of my life long friends are Amy Bee and Serena Martin. I met these ladies in my college days in Nashville and we have been through it all together. Although one lives in Adamsville and one lives in Nashville, we still make a point to get together every once in a while and catch up.

Hardly a month goes by that we don’t send a little note of encouragement or text to see how each other is doing. We only see each other about once a year, so we like to set apart this time for some real girl fun.

We set this time apart for each other over this past weekend, and although it was a hurried visit, we made the most of it. I’m not sure if men are like women in this, but we can do absolutely nothing but talk for hours at a time, which is about all that we did Friday night. There were a few college style pranks that, although we are now in our 30s and it’s not so cute, were pulled.

In college our conversations were a lot different than our conversations now. We used to talk about boys, classes, body figures and goals and plans for our futures. Now we talk about kids and husbands and all the things we said we were going to do that we didn’t.

Both of my friends married the guys that they dated in college, so they are always a topic of conversation… good, not bad. And the more I think about it, the more I see that our conversations are still about the same kinds of things, but with a totally different spin. While they are still talking about the same boys that they talked about in college, it’s totally different when it’s your husband of 12 years.

And we are women, so there was still plenty of talk about our figures… the good, the bad and the ugly. Like most women, we have never let go of wanting the perfect body for our body types, and it doesn’t look like we will stop talking about that anytime soon.

We also took time to talk about our goals and plans for the future. We talked about how we want things to change and how there are still things that we never want to change. We still have plans that have never been accomplished and those are the things that we continue to discuss year after year.

With any good girls weekend, there was plenty of food and laughter involved, but it’s the conversation and relationship that makes it so great to get with these ladies.

When life throws us curve balls, we know that we will always have each other. We may not always agree, but we are always there for each other and it is so important to have people like that in your life. People who won’t always tell you exactly what you want to hear, but will always tell you the truth. Friends are so important to our lives. Make time this week to contact one of your old friends. Who knows, maybe you’ll end up doing lunch together and planning a girls weekend of your own. I promise you won’t regret it. Good friends are hard to come by, so hold on to the ones you have.