When it comes to the Sex in the City series... I was a LATE bloomer. I just watched the whole series...maybe even my first episode for the first time last summer. It was after I saw Sex in the City the movie. Everyone said the series was better, and since i was IN LOVE with the feature film, i knew I would love the series. Boy was that just too true!! I would say I'm a combination of Charlotte York and Carrie Bradshaw. But seriously, i just love all the girls! As I was sitting down to my picnic with MY girls in park slope I realized how lucky I am to have the best girlfriends anyone could ask for!
Two years ago when I moved to NYC I remember praying to Jesus for a very strange thing...not just girl friends...it was deeper than that, i prayed for Bridesmaids. Huh? Well see, I realized that most of my life I had my best friend, my boy friend, and then GUY friends. My only friends who were girls were kinda my friends just because we had the same close relationships with the same guys? I know that's somewhat typical for a high school girl but my eyes were opened when i went to my friends wedding the summer before i left and saw that she had a full wedding party of all her girlfriends. i thought, gee--- i have a maid of honor, but i def. don't have any bridesmaids...
So i began praying for not just a group of girls, not just close friends, but a group of girls who knew me inside out so well and loved the core of me so much that I would want them to be by my side for the most important day of my life; my wedding.
My first week in NYC, a group of girls were in an elevator and we were all chatting loudly to someone next to us. Finally we realized we ALL were talking about being hungry, so on a whim we all went to lunch. The two girls sitting next to me were Ellie, and Emma.
Then I got into this class I HATED but needed the credit for. One night I was praying for God to provide me a way out but as I was praying the image of this blond girl in my class kept coming into my head. Okay, i thought. So I'm supposed to be friends with this girl. The next day she invited me to a dance show with her, we had a date~ fell in love, i introduced her to Ellie and Emma and it was fate. The four girls, Jillene, Emma, Hillary, and Ellie were born into friendship ~ we're not exactly sex in the city...but our lives are just as creative, just as interesting, and just as much a TV show.
God has timed life out where i have gotten to know each girl personally one on one as well as enjoy them in our group or at parties. First, I was very close with Ellie for we connected with our belief in God and our Musical theater past. Then when she got the Mumps, Emma and I began to walk to school together since we lived a block away and we grew tight tight tight to the point of going to Scotland together(last summer)! Then when I moved into Hillary's building we got to see each other more and more. My friendship with these girls continue to cycle in waves of all of us being together and having special moments with one another. I love them individually in the deepest way i know how and i love when we are all together enjoying life as a group!
My first year it was us four almost everynight having a different party, tea date, movie night, you name it and now it's not just my 3 girls, I have amazing girlfriends From Courtney my amazing photographer and writer, to Callie my Musical theater Goddess. From my justice fighting Elana, to my caring Public School teacher Emily. Numerous girls from my church I'm falling in love with more and more every time I'm with them...and friends I have yet to meet in the NYU CAP21 summer program. It's gotten to the point that not having enough bridesmaids is not the problem, but how will I ever choose between them? Will I have a wedding party of 20 girls?!
As I sat with my friends at Prospect Park with the elegant Vegan food we had each made and brought for our dinner picnic I couldn't help but feel eternally grateful for the beautiful, amazing, talented, and smart girls i was breaking bread with. Only a God who knows me better than I know myself could have painted this picture i call "my life". Because i am just not that brilliant of an artist to create the masterpiece I walk in everyday.
I have gone through some crazy aspects of life with all of them. I think for all of us some of the most imporatnt things that have happened in our lives have occurred in these past 2 years. Between our selves, our families, boys, and career- we all needed eachother. What would we have done without eachother? As I sat with my friends, i couldn't help but wonder... why have I waited so long to make friends with girls? Do you have a close group of friends you would die for, I do.
*** click on their pictures on the left to see what they're about!
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