A Grown Up Cliche

You know that cliche that says "You know you're an adult when your friends become your family".... Yeah, we've all heard it, read it, maybe even applied it to our lives time and again.

I'm here to reverse that cliche and make a new one. This is something I've descovered after living in California for the past two years . Yes, California has showed me many things--tattoos are a fashion statement, flip flops are appropriate footwear anywhere and the Central Valley just smells like cow...there's no getting around that. However, I think the most important thing I've learned over the past two years, is a reverse to that popular cliche.

"You know you've become an adult, when your family becomes your friends."

I have spent the past two years getting to know my family all over again after having been away from them for over 10 years...and it is the most amazing and not to mention comforting thing to discover that the people who have known you since birth are also your best friends in the world. It's incredible to be drinking wine or margaritas around a bonfire, playing guitar and singing to great lyrics, having heart to hearts, and then look up and realize that you are related to all of these amazing people enjoying this evening with you. It's amazine to know that they will be there forever. They have to, they are family.

To all of these people, you know who you are, thank you for helping me realize adulthood in the best way possible, and for being my best friends. :-)

(ok, enough cheese. goat cheese? i love goat cheese!)