Thankful Day 6

These girls.

 Sari's never had her own friends.  Not that she hasn't had friends...but they've always been the younger siblings of HER older siblings' friends.  Now, she has two sets of sister/friends in our neighborhood.  One homeschools, and they were our first friends here.  Sadly, I have no good pictures of the 3 of them together.  These other girls live a few houses down, and they've become like sisters to Sari.  That's the 3 of them huddled under blankets on our driveway this weekend as a cold front rolled through.  They saw me taking a picture and quickly buried themselves so they were invisible.  I'm so thankful Sari has friends of her own, developed independent of her siblings-just girls whose company she enjoys.  And the one set has also turned into babysitting opportunities for Mimi, so that's nice too.  So girlfriends for Sari-even when it means that Monopoly stays spread out all over our front room floor for over a week as they play through their game-that's what I'm thankful for.