Mia's Mama

Mia's Mama is a friend I met while working at a law firm downtown Manhattan. We didn't work together too long, maybe about a year and half but we shared a large cubicle with another girl and from the first day we met we were friends. She is a funny loving person, a great mom, her girls mean the world to her and since I've known her everything was always about her family, good and bad, family comes first. As much as her parents help her out now since she and her husband work full time, she helps them too, does so much for them and she's a wonderful example for her own children. Maybe more than being funny we connected on that level, family comes first for me.

Theresa, Mia's Mama, and I have talked pretty much every Saturday morning since we met. We both are early risers and at about 7:30 or so in the a.m., one of us is answering the phone imitating her mother's Italian accent. Her mom would call the office when we worked together and I loved the way she would ask for Theresa when I answered her phone, I've called her Theresa the way her mother said it since and now Theresa says my name with that beautiful accent, it sounds like a different name!

We talk about everything, what's going on in our lives, job problems, men problems, we talk about her kids, our families. We're so lucky that we have this time, by 8:15 or so she's got to get into her day with her children and I'm off and doing my thing. I don't even get to talk to my sisters on such a regular basis. We just don't have the same schedule.

There are many times when one of us is in crisis mode and we reach out during the week. we both know it's something important when those calls come in. From just a short time working together on a daily basis a beautiful friendship emerged. I saw her 2 years ago because I made the chocolate bar wrappers for her daughter's christening, but even that was a quick cup of coffee and we both had to go back to our busy lives. And before that I hadn't seen her in six years as she lives upstate and stopped working in Manhattan shortly after her first child, Sophia, was born.

There are many people I've met during my life that I wish I could talk to every once in a while, but we all have such busy lives, especially parents, always running here and there taking their kids to their practice or clubs, whatever. It's not easy.

For me Facebook has been a wonderful way for me to say hello and share time with friends I love and have missed. Life changes so much, you move out of the neighborhood, you change schools, you marry, have a family, work, spend your precious time with your family, time goes by way too fast! So me and my friends may not talk to each other every day on Facebook, sometimes nothing after the initial contact of "hey! hi! I remember you", but we're friends all the same, we've acknowledged to each other that we shared a part of our journey through life together.

I know Facebook can also cause problems for some people, maybe for kids more. What they write will be there forever, will define them as they get older and may be a big impact on their relationships, their careers. What a different world! Good and bad, huh?

The chocolate bar wrapper pictured below another design made with love. I copied Anne Geddes work. Anne Geddes is an amazing artist. I think most people have seen her work and know her name, but if you don't, she is known for her pictures of babies or young toddlers dressed as pea pods, or butterflies, flowers, fairies, the most beautiful pictures. Check her work out on line if you by some strange change have not seen her pictures and even if you have, you just smile in your heart when you look at her work. A tremendous talent.

Again, I copied this wonderful women's idea. Though unlike Anne, I didn't take pictures of Mia in a flower pot, just cropped her beautiful little face and built everything else around her. Mia's Mama loved them and it gave us a chance to actually sit and chat face to face for a short time, but we have our Saturday mornings, a highlight of my weekends!