Although I am of Italian and Polish descent, I have the luck ‘o the Irish when it comes to friends. I have always valued quality over quantity when it comes to friends, and my good friends hail from different times in my life, but I feel like I have known each of them forever.

Tonight I had an early dinner with a woman who was first a colleague at school who grew into a friend. Although we no longer work together, we have kept in touch via text with meetups as life allows.

It was so wonderful to catch up on each other’s lives. She wanted to know about my grandchildren, and I needed the rundown of her four children and what each was up to. I don’t know how it happened; we talked for two hours, but it seemed like only minutes. I am sure we had plenty more to talk about, but she is a busy mom of four and couldn’t stay as long as this empty nester.

I am not sure when we actually saw each other in person last, but today I realized how much I missed being with her in person. We promised to meet up again before the end of the school year. I can’t wait! Until then periodic text messages will just have to do.