Women power

hi,
today had gone for a friend's bday....basically she had called us for brunch type of celebration. it felt really nice....everyone had dressed up nicely, got a gift and had food and of course some light gossip :)

i realized that after marriage and esp after kids, the connotations of bday celebration really change. after marriage, esp in the first few years, its about celebrating as a couple, romantic dinner etc. later, maybe it becomes a celebration with friends, but mainly with couple friends . when kid/s arrive, the cake is cut with the child, or mainly the child cuts the cake! (so is it her bday??)

in all this, we forget the bdays we spent with friends, we forget those carefree days when girlfriends were the only part of the celebration. mostly now, even at own bday parties, the woman only cooks, arranges for everything; and actually gets happiness from it!

does it mean that when the women marries, becomes a mother, she stops being a girlfriend? or does it mean that girlfriends lose importance and other people gain more importance? whatever the reasons be, I just know that today when we celebrated my friend's bday in 'girlfriend style', we really had fun; we went back to the times when we were just girlfriends for someone.....and not a wife or mother!

.....till it was time to pick up the kids from school! :):)

ciao