...dont you have a life at all?

I was in Perryton for Christmas last week and a bunch of my little brothers friends were out at Rodeo Nights, so Ron and I took him out there and went in to have a drink when I ran into a person I went to HS with. I would have, at one time called him a good friend but I see now that life has taken us on two completely different paths.
I stood there talking to my old friend, it was fun at first then it got a little uncomfortable for me. Here's why.

I live in Shawnee OK which is about 30 miles from OKC. When I was talking with my hs pal, I told him we lived close to the city and he pointed out we should go out one night. I said ya that would be fun. This is where the roads separates us. lol. I was thinking "go out" dinner, catch up maybe a couple drinks after. My friend however started naming off just damn near every bar in OKC asking me if I had been here or there or whatever, and I was like nope never been there.. or I have heard of that place...... for a minute I was back peddling and about to make excuses then I stopped when he said. Damn Mindee don't you have a life.

Don't you have a life??

I just laughed and thought my how the twists and turns of life changes us all, and thank God they do. I do have a life. I don't go party all weekend every weekend, that isn't MY life. My life includes a very active, light hearted 2 1/2 year old and a wonderful husband. My weekends are spent with them! I center everything that I do, around them, and you know what... It works for me. That is just who I am. It doesn't make me right or wrong.. Just different. Yet the same.
When I go to the lake, I pack an ice chest of Capri sun, fruit roll-ups, ham and cheese sandwiches and diet coke (every now and then a 12 pack of Coors) When they go to the lake they pack a change of clothes and 2 or 3 cases of beer (liquid diet). We do the same things, we just do them different.
I am a wife, and mother first and foremost. THAT is my life. I clean and cook and get dirty, and I love every single minute of it. Being parents to our little Anderson is by far the best gift that I have been given we have been given and I know that I am right where I need to be, and that is a good feeling for a person to have.

I hope that all of my friends are doing well and in what ever they are doing they are enjoying it. Whats the point in being alive if you aren't living? Every day is a new day and an adventure for us in this crazy thing we call LIFE!!