Friendships

Seems I'm having an abundant topics I could blog about:) Now if I can just remember them all. Topic today is friends! You have them right??? Do you have few but are close to the few you have? Or are you one that has many friends and stay in pretty good contact with them all?? Or how many of you have rekindled friendships via facebook, or met new friends via blogs, facebook, etc.

I'm one of those that has many people I call friends. Some are closer to me then others, but all in all those I consider friends I love getting together with, emailing, and would love to hang out more. I can pretty much go from coast to coast and find some friend to stay with if need be. When I worked, outside the home, I met many friends via my work. Many I have never met IRL (In Real Life) but know well enough I'd feel comfortable staying with them. I've also have a new friendship with Jen via Craigslist!! Who would have thought!? Well those that know me, probably aren't surprise. I love how God brings people in my life via places like Craigslist, Ebay, etc. Or places like Disney World:) Or my friend Laura (lives in NJ) to whom we sold two black labs to about 5 years ago?? We weren't only brought together by our dogs but God must have had a plan b/c she had been thru infertility when I had just started my IVF treatments. With no one to talk thru it all, or anyone I knew personally that knew what I was going thru, it was a God send friendship that blossomed.

OK so getting to the point!! Yeah I know from time to time I do have a point. Friendships with other couples is an entire different story. I know we're not the only couple that deals with this. DH and I were talking (again, on the way home from the lakes) what couples would we enjoy doing something with such as a quick trip to Vegas? or IF we got a camper, what kind of couple could we honestly go camping for a weekend with? (seriously ones that I wouldn't want to poke with my hot dog stick b/c of annoyances)

The girls I'm friends with doesn't necessarily mean DH could hang with there DH. Or vice versa. Probably more the vice versa for us:) What does one do?? How do you find friends where both the wives and husbands enjoy hanging around one another? I say 'enjoy' b/c you really need to enjoy them or hanging out just to do it becomes dreadful for one partner.

This past weekend we thought about going out. But who could we call to go out with us? Are we just at that point in our lives where hanging out as couples just isnt' possible b/c of children, finding sitters, etc? I look at DH's friends and most of them have grown kids.

Do you have friends that you and your DH both enjoy hanging out with? I'm thinking this is a fairly common issue, agree?? disagree?? What does one do?