Today I had lunch with an old friend. She's the friend that's known me most of my life and still loves me. We have spent time when we talked all the time and time when we went without talking for months. Either way, we are still friends.

We met for lunch and talked about our kids. We had kids roughly the same time and the same number, I have 3 boys and she has 3 girls. We have moved and moved back, and we are now close enough to meet for lunch whenever we want. The problem is, she works and I travel and we still find it hard to connect. So today was a nice treat.

We talked about my latest trip, our kids sports woes and her granddaughters. We just talked. Do you have a friend like that? It really is my sanity lock. I can tell her anything and I don't have to be in a good mood unless I really am.

We all need friends like that. Friends that love us, don't judge us, are always there for us, understand us and never leave us. We can fight but we never leave for good.

I also have a group of friends, The Goddesses. We are the same way except we do it collectively. We have times when it's all of us and times when it's just a few of us but there is always one of us available for another. The group is called into action when ever needed, right now it's needed. When one of us hurts, we all hurt. We love our friend and she is hurting a lot. So, we all hurt, a lot. Because we love her and her family.

My hope is that you all have friends like that, we all need them.