as you may have noticed from my last post, i’m sick. as a dog.
a new friend of mine also noticed and brought me home made chicken soup with corn bread tonight.
i was amazed and honored and grateful. instead of eating what was stewing in my pot (trader joe’s instant mac & cheese) i got to slurp down big squishy noodles with carrots and potatoes and celery and chicken. not to mention the corn bread. A__’s favorite was by far the corn bread.
somehow, during my lifetime, i often end up living somewhere very far away from all of my friends. in this town, i’ve been trying my best (which is hard work for a shy girl) to make friends with people who live around here. if my neighbors would actually talk to me when i say hello, i would count them in my circle of friends too. but even with reluctant neighbors, i’ve found a lovely group of women, all with young children, who have become something of a support system for me.
several of them babysit for me, including some swaps so i don’t have to pay. which is always a very nice treat for my bank account. we have play-dates and go out for girls nights. just the other day one of them called me and said “i haven’t seen you at any mom’s nights out. i know you don’t get out much so pick a date soon and we’ll go on a girl’s night out.” their very presence reminds me that we are all just a bunch of girls who are suddenly (or not so suddenly) moms.
but tonight’s gift went above and beyond anything i expected.
and, of course, true to the nature of blogging, i am thanking her with this post…besides which, the clever lady found out i was sick by reading my last post..
Thank You CellophaneJane! Your friendship warms my heart; your soup makes me less snuffly.
(if you don’t get the title reference, go watch this video.)
Hey, you know… I’m just glad I finally have a true-fan of my soup. Everyone else complains that it doesn’t have enough salt. Or that I put the noodles in too early. So, I’m just glad to know someone actually likes it.
And, you know…I actually didn’t figure out you were sick from your blog. It was just what you mentioned in your email last week “I have been fighting it and finally lost”. That was a red flag…I thought “Uh oh, soup SOS”. 🙂
The new friends we’ve made over this past year or so, I agree, have been so key. Especially you, for me, my dear. Hope you and A__ are both hale and strong soon. Hugs…
oh, drat…and here i though my last post was so delightfully pathetic that it made your heart get all gushy.
oh, well.
So sorry to hear you’re sick! Hope you get to feeing better soon. Being a single mom and sick has to be just the worst combination. Ugh — Been there, done that, and hoping to make it through this cold/flu season without doing it again.
I, too, have found that a circle of girlfriends/mommy friends is invaluable. I would not have made it this far without them. And for all the judgemental people out there (you’re a single mom? what did you do wrong to make your husband leave you?….), I remind myself of the people who truly care and will bring me a pot of soup if I do end up sick. I’m so glad you have some of them!!!
~liz
Moving is rough. Might I suggest starting a book club. Took me 3 years to figure out that I could start a book club, now I wish I’d done it as soon as I moved in.
Ugh! Truly, few things stink worse than being so incredibly sick…and also a single mother. Throw a sick toddler into the mix and it gets about a hundred times worse! I hope you’re feeling better!
Where would we be without mothers? I’m glad you’re getting some support while you’re sick, must be extremely difficult as a single parent at times like this,