davidandmarta.blogspot.com: friend time

i met a group of very smart and pretty young ladies when i was in college. one of them i met on my very first day, in my very first act as a college student: walking into my new dorm room. that was jackie. she was my random roommate. a year later, i met the friend of a friend, who turned out to be the neighbor of my then boyfriend (still with me here?), and we became friends. that was kate. kate and jackie became friends. later, kate went to london for a semester and met a girl from uw. that is steph. they came home, and we all became friends. and also, kate met a girl who was friends with her then boyfriend, and then we all became friends. that was stacy.

everyone has these stories from college. if everyone is lucky, they still have these friends. i am very lucky. (also, i think a take home message is this: college boyfriends are a good source for girlfriends.)

these friends of mine (jackie, kate, steph, stacy) have stayed friends, and we all manage to see each other as a group at least once per year. we have lived as far away as new zealand, we have gone to graduate school, completed medical residencies, dealt with long distance relationships, gotten married, struggled with hardships, had some babies, changed jobs.... you know, life. and through it all, we are still there for one another. having friends who stay constant and consistent from age 18 to now and into the future make it easy. we just pick up where we left off when we are together.

so all this blather about my girlfriends is due to our recent weekend together. it was tremendous fun.
we spent the day in the glorious madison sunshine at the terrace, walking along state street, having dinner together, and laughing our way into the wee hours of the morning. some husbands were there, and a few brothers and a sister in law, and we all had a blast.

the next day, we had a baby shower for kate, who is beautiful with that baby bump. look at those grown ups.

but we weren't always so grown up. sadly, i don't have any pictures available to me at the moment of our lives in the pre-digital photo era (which, for me, ended in 2005). but here are a few, dating since the birth of my digital photo library.

2005