BFFs

Best friends. What does that term mean? Who are your best friends? Are they the kids in the neighborhood you grew up with? Your high school clique? Sorority sisters?

Over the past year I have discovered a whole new meaning for the term best friends. A year ago I joined Ravelry at the insistence of my youngest sister who found her reasons difficult to describe but thought for sure I needed to be part of the Rav crowd. I spent a few months looking at boards, reading through forum threads, learning a lot about knitting, yarn, technique and adding many patterns to my qeue. I really liked Ravelry. And then I found The Bravo Whores a Ravelry group formed to dish on the Bravo network shows.

It's not every day you find a group of women with whom you have so much in common as the BWs do. We could collectively fill in "all of the above" when completing any survey. Our ages run from the 20's to the 60's, we are East coasters, New Englanders, Southerners, West and NW coasters and most places in between. We are of different ethnicities. Yet we have the same sense of humour, the same sense of integrity and a feeling of sister-like love for each other. We know and care for each other the way best friends do. Over the past year we have offered support during times of loss, offered advice about men and life, worried about each other's children, followed fellow BWs as they moved across the country while waiting as our friends came back from oversea adventures. We have shared gifts and stories, been silly and serious, given and received medical advice, stayed up for hours laughing with each other and yet would not be able to pick out one another in a line up.

I think the BWs are a new definition of best friends. Holla at ya hos!