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Love Letter to “The Girls”

~ branolive ~ Leave a comment

Just submitted our ticket request for The Martha Stewart Show for our NYC girls weekend! It made me a little weepy to write it, so I thought it might be worth posting.

“We’ve all been friends for 10 years or more (some since birth) and we’ve been through it all together! High School Graduation, College, bad boys, bad choices, bad jobs, road trips, 21st birthdays, broken hearts, good men, engagements, first apartments, kitchen fires, weddings, babies, dogs, first homes you name it, we’ve lived it and always together! 

I think it speaks to our strong bond that we are all in different life phases; we each fall into one or more of these categories the show gave:

Soon-to-be Mom, New Mom, Mom of a Toddler, Bride-to-be, Newlywed, College Student,Young Professional

 and we are all still close friends. Martha is my domestic inspiration and all my best recipes (girls night staples include mac and cheese, tomato soup and pound cake) are secretly hers (shhh… everyone thinks I am an amazing self taught cook.)”

Quote ~ ~ branolive ~ Leave a comment

there’s a smorgasbord of unspoken poisons
a whole childhood of potions
that are all bottled up
and so one by one i am dusting off labels
i am uncorking bottles and filling up cups
so go ahead and have a taste of your own medicine
and i’ll have a taste of mine
but first let’s toast to the lists
that we hold in our fists
of the things that we promise to do
differently next time

marrow

ani difranco