A pair years in the past, I invited just a few pals over for Galentine’s Day…
I set out a cheese plate and requested everybody to deliver a candy deal with to share, since, as Julia Baby mentioned, “a celebration with out cake is only a assembly.”
We additionally received an enormous container of Spanish potato chips as a result of life is brief, you guys!!!
Then we sat at my eating desk and made heart-shaped notes for individuals we adored, together with pals, mother and father, companions, kids, one another, and ourselves. We had an expansion of development paper, scissors, glue sticks, stickers, extra stickers, beads, ribbon, letters, extra letters, and glitter pom poms. We laughed and instructed embarrassing tales, and afterward, I received a dozen texts from pals saying, “That was so NEEDED.” I felt the identical.
As Emily Rapp Black wrote years in the past: “Right here’s the reality: Friendships between girls are sometimes the deepest and most profound love tales, however they’re usually mentioned as if they’re ancillary, ‘bonus’ relationships to the actually necessary ones. Girls’s friendships outlast jobs, mother and father, husbands, boyfriends, lovers, and typically kids.”
Ideas? Would you throw a Galentine’s gathering? What different actions or snacks would you counsel? I’d love to listen to! My buddy Susan as soon as had girls over on Galentine’s Day to look at Clueless, which made for a enjoyable night. Possibly this yr I’ll play PEN15 on mute within the background.
Facet observe: After I was flipping via my cellphone for these images, I got here throughout a snapshot of a web page from Lindy West’s e book of film recaps. Nonetheless makes me snort.
P.P.S. The key to feminine friendship, and the love story I by no means thought to inform.
