This is only a few of my college girlfriends and I'm sad to admit that I have no idea who is in the middle. But I'm thinking about them. Not only because the baby is in college but for where we are in life.
One of the friends in this photo is a widow and now raising two girls without her beloved. Another is getting married for the first time next month and about to become a step mom -- a position I highly recommend.
We're all roughly the same age and we're all in different places. Some have young children; some have grown children. Some have fabulous careers; others have picked and chosen, whether right or wrong.
There are several friends missing from this picture but the essence is there. Young women embarking on it all ... careers, marriage, motherhood.
I hope we were toasting our parents for giving us this opportunity but I doubt that's what was going through our minds.
