It’s a common cliché to hear that “diamonds are a girl’s best friend” but after spending two weekends in a row with my mom (which has not happened since I moved away to college 4 years ago…), I have decided to re-write that line. Diamonds are nice, but mothers truly are forever.
My mother visited to Athens two weekends ago for our last mother/daughter sorority brunch we will ever experience together. We split our time half in Atlanta and half in Athens so she could experience the world’s largest aquarium first-hand: The Georgia Aquarium.
It’s easy to pretend you’re five years old in that place with so many tanks, fish, interactive videos and diagrams to run around being curious about. I don’t think I have never seen my mom’s eyes grow so big so fast and so many times in just two hours. It was a wonderful experience to be two grown adults acting like children together, not as mother and daughter, but as two girlfriends. I really never thought moments like this were possible once you reached a certain age/point in your life, however, it seems that this is when those exact moments begin.
Here we are posing with a starfish we found plastered to the glass:
Our weekend as girls, not as a mother and daughter pair, was an unexpected and incredibly pleasant eye-opening detour. Thus, I look very forward to more experiences with my mother as two friends. She is a wonderful woman and I can only look up to her. I was anxious to be with her the next weekend in Wilmington, North Carolina to play some more!
