We moved into our house 30 years ago this month. 9 days before Christmas, on Friday night after work, we had 2 friends show up with their truck and helped to move our washer, dryer and refrigerator. Then came back for our sleeper sofa, chair, coffee and end tables. We did not ask, they just showed up. The next day Eric's best friend came to move our bedroom suit. My sister and 2 nieces came the next week and spent the day organizing our pots and pans, dishes and linen closet. Throughout the years, we have been blessed to have had friends who would drop everything to help us out. Picking our 2 sons up at school at the last minute, watching them when school was cancelled for snow days, etc... We had friends and family cook for us when our children were born. We had offers to babysit on Christmas Day so I could make arrangements for my dad's funeral. So many people who have been our friends along the way and we never really let them know how much they meant to us. Some of them are gone now, I wish I had said 'thank you' more often. I hope they knew how much we treasured their friendship.
And I hope the ones who still count themselves as my friends today, know that I will never consider myself a 'failure'. With you beside me, I have succeeded in life.
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