In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families and friends the centre of our lives and the top of our priorities. I am fortunate to have a loving, caring and friendly related family of friends and a solid, loving and faithful family of chosen friends, all of whom add happiness to my life. How lucky can one be?
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Recently, one of my granddaughters became engaged while she was overseas and last week my daughter, her mother, came home for a month from France where she lives. I decided to celebrate both these events with a luncheon for my female friends - I would have included the men but I don’t have the room and I know that they would rather be playing golf.
Having issued the invitations, I set myself to wondering what I would give them to eat. My good friends all said “Make it easy” so I did – with help from my friends and family. Salads, quiches, slices, coffee/tea and grapes and wine, water or orange juice with the meal, easy peasy – I even ordered the quiches from Thyme to Taste – yummo!
But enough of the petty details - the food was not really important – especially so close to the food-saturated Christmas celebrations.
What really mattered to me on this occasion was the ‘getting together’ of my close family of female friends to have some fun. We talked, played silly games and had a competition to see which team of four could make the best wedding dress from newspaper – kindly donated by Yass Newsagency. The photo shows the results of this keenly contested affair. Diplomatically, the judges (three male relatives who arrived in the nick of time) awarded each group of dress designers a prize for different aspects of their work.
You don’t really need an excuse to get together for a bit of fun. We, our lot, often have games nights where we play such games as Pictionary, Trivial Pursuits or Fictionary Dictionary. And, although we all try to win, no-one really minds who wins – the fun is in the playing. We just eat finger food and play all evening, laughing and joking all the time. It is so good for us.
We also seem to celebrate anything we can – and if we cannot think of anything real to celebrate we declare it Queen Boadicea’s birthday – or wedding day- or whatever day you like – and celebrate it with a bit of fun.
Without my friends and family my life would be very poor indeed. They care about me, understand me, rejoice with me, suffer with me and accept me as I am. They give me strength and loyalty. In turn I try to show them how important they are to me by being there for them myself, helping them out, respecting them and being considerate of their feelings. I am aware how lucky I am and hope that you are as fortunate.
