One of my greatest friends (who I got to know when I was made her visiting teacher) comes over every Wednesday night and it is a blessing to both of us. My husband is always gone until late, I don’t get very many opportunities to spend time with friends, she lives alone, and we both love to cook together.
Sometimes we’ll take turns cooking and when it’s her night, I take advantage of the fact that I don’t have to plan dinner by getting some chores done around the house. Usually I buy the ingredients and send her home with leftovers too. She was out of work for a long time, being laid-off immediately after returning from medical leave. As she still searches for a full-time job, it’s a blessing to her that she gets two meals a week she doesn’t have to pay for. I am thrilled that I have a night where I don’t have to cook or to have a better meal than we normally do. It’s hard to make anything wonderful with three rowdy boys and a baby girl.
Most of all, it is just fun. We watch movies, we play games, we share our hopes for the future, we give each other encouragement, and laugh our heads off.
I don’t think she understands how much she blesses my life. I went through a really hard time a couple years ago – not something I can share with most people and she had no idea how difficult Wednesday nights are for me. With her here, I find myself thinking less about the trial I went through and this night has become a positive instead of a negative. We started this tradition almost two years ago when she offered to come cook me dinner for my birthday. We had so much fun, she started coming over more often and then it became a tradition set it stone. We don’t give up our Wednesday nights with each other unless one of us is sick or out of town.
Last year she blew me away making me a chocolate cheesecake garnished with chocolate covered strawberries. It was absolutely amazing! We feel like we’re family. To me, close friends are like the family you choose.
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