Girls Weekends: Then and Now

As little as five years ago, a girls weekend away would have included:

• Several shopping trips before hand


• Enough dress up outfits for a month away from home


• More makeup and hair products than Hobo the Clown uses


• Huge, really really HUGE, earrings and assorted jewelry


• New sexy “come here” perfume


• Practicing up on dance moves

Not that we were being bad. We were just being “hot” and young. Having men want us was all that mattered; not that we wanted them back. We just needed to feel like we were still attractive.

This weekend away includes:

• A shopping trip to pick up special stickers and papers


• Three suitcases of scrapbooking items


• A tiny backpack of t-shirts and stretchy pants


• No makeup


• No jewelry


• Night cream


• Hours of sorting through papers and stickers to bring just what I need

Now it’s all about us and what we enjoy. Men . . . are there any on the planet?