Friendship, what does it mean?

I used to laugh at people who told me that the friendships I had when I was a kid would be the longest lasting and truest friendships of my life. If I could I would apologize for my "know it all attitude" and tell them how right they are.

Since high school I have had several acquaintances, but as of now few true friends. You see as I get older I now realize what true friendship means. It means that you do not have to agree on every subject, think alike, dress alike, worship the same, nor discipline and raise your children the same way. You could be complete opposites. What matters is that you respect those differences, and you truly care about that persons feelings and well being.

Now this is were I have to say that the friendships I have made during my adulthood differ than those formed during my youth. My best friend in the world and I do not agree on every aspect of life, but she still cares about me. We know we are different but that doesn't hurt our friendship. I have always thought it is what makes it better because we balance each other out.

Why is it then as be become adults that people become so judgemental. They feel that you must think like them to be their friend. I thought for years that my solitude has been because I am not from here and people in this area are very cliquish. But I now wonder if it doesn't matter where you live. It is just a fact of life that as you get older you realize that you have few true friends and the rest are just people you know.

Please don't take offense to this if you are a friend or acquaintance. This is just something that has really been on my heart as of late and today a situation occurred that brought it to a head. My husband overheard a "friend" saying a very unkind comment about me to other "friends". He had to just get up and leave. It really angered him because he knows how much I just want to be accepted for who I am. Yet, he knew that I would not want him to say what he so much wanted to say. I would rather just let it go. Whether he said something or not the words still hurt the same.

Lazy days

Yes, I admit it I have been lazy this week. We started out with a not so good beginning and we haven't improved much. TT has his usual spring time sneezing mess. He has been on every kind of allergy meds, like I have and not much works. Needless to say we haven't felt like doing much, but we have put in a good effort.

Since the medicine makes us all groggy in the morning we have been having to wait until late morning to do most of our school work. But it has worked out pretty good. We have been stopping earlier than usual to enjoy some of the nice weather before it starts raining again. That's what I love about homeschooling it works for our lifestyle not our life having to work around it like public school.

Anywho, the kids are still enjoying the Y. They have both surprised me with their swimming skills. TT is now swimming the whole length of the pool. It has really improved his confidence. We have one more session until summer. I am so glad we decided to give the Y a try.

Well, Jane Austen calls. Have a great week.

We have SUNSHINE!

Or at least we did today. It was the first time in days and days since we have seen the sun. It has rained here for so long I can't remember the last sunny day.

We spent the week working and watching it rain. The rain effected our sleep due to late night storm warnings and Poogie didn't get to swim at the Y Thursday because it was storming. Her class got to do tumbling in the gym so she was happy anyway.

We didn't get as much done as I would have liked in science and social studies but we will catch up this week, I hope.

I did get some time to myself Friday, even in the pouring down rain. I had a doctors appointment so I left a few hours early to just enjoy myself. I may have enjoyed myself too much. I ended up buying myself a new digital camera. I have been debating the last few weeks on getting a new one. The one I have still works but the quality of the pictures have not been very good as of late. I really thought I wanted a new DSLR but after a lot of thought I decided to just get a good digital. I already have a great Nikon SLR my hubby got me a few years ago and I never want to part with it. Since my hubby bought it for me it means a lot to me and it takes beautiful photos, but it is too big to take everywhere. Plus I am not so good about getting film developed and I develop most of my digital stuff at home.

So I decided to get a Sony Cybershot H7. I am very happy with my purchase. I now have 2 times the mega pixels and 5X more zoom than my last camera. I love my hubby's Cybershot he uses for work but it doesn't have much zoom. The software that comes with the Sonys are great too. So now we both have a great camera.

We also went to see Nim's Island last night. I went for the obvious reason (Gerard Butler is in it), the kids wanted to see the animals. It was a delightful movie, even my hubby liked it. Jodi Foster was hilarious. If you get a chance do see it.

Finally as of last Monday I had lost 4 pounds on my diet. I am hoping for more this Monday when I weight in. I don't think I have lost as much this week because I didn't work our hardly any. I need to get on the ball this week and just do. Yet, that is easier said than done when it comes to finding time. I guess I will see Monday.