Today was a play day. Work has been so hard, and so physical lately that today we ( me and my two friends) decided that we needed to have a girl day and just play.

We divided the day into three parts and formed our own sisterhood......the first part of the day was spent in sharing prayer request and praying for each other and each of our families.

Second part of the day was lunch and a movie. Since none of us had any money we decided the best way to spend our time was to pop in a frozen batch of Chicken Lasagna while we watched "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." I must admit to being the instigator for the movie and for the sisterhood we've developed.

I read the book several years ago while packing to move to Virginia. We had lived in Savannah, Georgia for 17 years so this move meant leaving friends and family behind. I was intrigued by the cover and the title and was really in to reading anything about the company of close knit circle of friends . I loved the banter and the plot and could easily understand why the book made the best seller list. The following year the sequel came out and my good friend Sandy gave me a copy as I had talked so much about the book. Last year the third book came out.....and naturally I read that also. When I discovered they would be making a movie Sandy and I decided that we had to have a movie date. (knowing full well that our misters would take a pass on a chick flick!)

The movie came out in June and we never did get to go see it together. So now that it is out on DVD we decided it was our time to watch it . It was a good movie and perfect for escaping the care and concerns of the day. My friends also enjoyed it and for a little while we were "carefree girls" again and not wives and mothers.

We ended the day with a craft project. We made Advent Ribbons. It basically consists of wrapping individual pieces of candy to look like a package and hot gluing them on to a ribbon. The person who receives the ribbon takes the bottom piece off for each day till Christmas. We personalized the candy gifts with an encouraging message about the person wrapped around the candy.

It was fun and inexpensive but a home made gift with lots of heart.

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