Friendship. I love that word. It embodies so many memories and makes me grin, ear to ear, thinking about all the friends who define what friendship is to me. I know you have those people in your life as well. But life, well, it is insanely busy, and if I am not careful, I can neglect my friendships, or I might wait around waiting for someone else to plan the fun. Fostering friendship is a must to keep the connection alive. Here are my go-to favorite friend dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Life goes to a whole new level of busy when becoming a mom, and the play date is a fun way to have time with girlfriends without arranging childcare. It has the added plus of giving your little people important friendship building time as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meet at the park, fast-food play area or at a home, but be sure to meet in a place with kid-friendly play areas for optimum friend bonding time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have moments etched into my memory where time with friends was just plain silly and fun. I cannot walk into a Michael\u2019s without smiling because of an afternoon I spent giggling with a good friend. There was no specific purpose to the Michael\u2019s trip, apart from being around each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just be silly together. It is essential in the development of friendship. If you cannot laugh with your friend over how uncontrollable laughing makes you pee your pants a little, can you be completely honest?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or morning or afternoon. It doesn\u2019t matter the time, but gathering a group of girlfriends together does matter. Get a pedicure or go to the movies or go out for a fancy meal. For a tight budget, you can do DIY pedis or a movie night at home or do potluck style fancy meals. Whatever it is, just have fun together, and have a moment to eat your meal hot while talking only to adults for a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plan a walk or a hike or a meal together, but when I am craving one-on-one connection with a good friend, I create space allowing us to both take a deep breath and talk about all the big and little things that make friendship great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am an introvert by nature, so the one-on-one time with my girlfriends matters. A place where I am not distracted and can just be without small talk is a gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Friendship. I love that word. It embodies so many memories and makes me grin, ear to ear, thinking about all the friends who define what friendship is to me. I know you have those people in your life as well. But life, well, it is insanely busy, and if I am not careful, I can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,102],"tags":[32,218,229,198,29,36],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun","category-relationships","tag-friendship","tag-gather","tag-girlfriends","tag-life","tag-mikkee","tag-relationships"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themom.co\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}