A letter to the true friends

Remember as a kid how easy it was to make friends. You would see someone playing your favorite game at recess or doing something awesome and you would just run up to them and say "Hey, want to play with me?" Or "Hey, want to be my friend?" Usually, they would just say yes and you had a new friend!

As we get older though it seems like we just lose friends vs. making new ones. Becoming pregnant makes that really true! You learn who is really your friend and wants to be there for you and your new little family. Who is ready for more nights in and less nights going out. You may even get fewer invites to do things because you pregnant and can't drink or because you now have a kid. That's okay though because this leaves more room for our TRUE friends to shine.

Without those true friends, pregnancy and new motherhood would have been harder than it needed to be. Having support and people who could just be there for me was seriously one of the best things I could have asked for as a new mama!

So to all those friends that were there for me, this is a letter to you!

Dear Friend,

Thank you for everything you did for me before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and now that I am a new mama! Thank you for supporting me when I was hormonal and sad and didn't know why. Thank you for still inviting me over for game nights and mocktails. Thank you for letting me call you and dump all my feelings when I was scared. Thank you for celebrating all the exciting parts of pregnancy with me. Thank you for not giving me unsolicited advice (I was getting enough of that), but also for sharing your opinions when I asked for them. Thank you for calling and checking in on me those first few weeks postpartum when I wasn't feeling like my self or walking me through breastfeeding and all the things I didn't know about it. I really needed a friend like you through this new, scary, yet very exciting time in my life! You were there to love on my new little bundle of joy and this exhausted mama in all the right ways. You didn't take it personally when I didn't call you back right away, you knew I was tired and needed that nap. You were there for all the ups and downs and I don't know how I could ever repay you! I hope that you know I am FOREVER grateful for your friendship and I hope that I am at least a fraction of the friend to you that you were for me!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, friend!

If you have a friend who has been there for you, make sure you share your love and appreciation with them!

Love always, Macayla