Well I'm back! At least for a little bit... If you didn't already catch on, I've been posting a little more regularly over on The Ging Twins with my lovely and exceptionally talented little sis :) But December has been good to me so far and I wanted to make sure and capture it all here on my first online home! xo
My friends and I have determined that your 20s are just destined to be a bumpy ride full of really high highs (late nights in the city with friends that you know you'll never forget) and balanced out with some devastating lows (heartbreaks you feel like you'll never recover from... spoiler alert: you will!). One thing that has remained a constant as I've gotten older though, is that with every passing day, my mom becomes less my mom and more my best friend. Gone are the days where we fight over my curfew and here are the days where she and 9 of her friends kill 12 bottles of wine in my apartment and call it happy hour...
Every year in December her and the girls come up to San Francisco for a girls weekend. Shopping, eating, drinking and general debauchery ensues. And not only do I get a front row seat, but I become part of the gang! Friday night we had 6:30 dinner reservations and since none of the gals had seen my apartment, I decided to have everyone over at 5 for some wine and apps!
First up - decadent burrata and the infamous creamy dream of a cheese, Mt Tam by Cowgirl Creamery on top of some dressed arugula (olive oil, a squeeze of lemon, pinch of honey, s&p) with some crunchy bread to soak it all up...
Herbed goat cheese topped with roasted red pepper, basil, and red onion on crostini...
Mamma testin out my treats...
Many of the mamas hadn't met Ian yet and were dying to. Like the true gent he is, he showed up and braved them all with a friend in tow!
With no room to do the sorority squat, some of the mamas climbed onto the couch to squeeeeze everyone into the pic...
This picture holds some of the smartest, funniest, bravest, most beautiful women I know and I admire each and every one of them. Even though this is a tradition they started to get away for a weekend and spend time with each other, I have come to cherish being a part of it and look forward to it every year! I used to feel weird about being called a young woman, it just has such a cheesy ring to it. But spending time with this group has made me proud to be a woman - of any kind!
We were having so much fun hanging out that we decided to cancel our dinner reservations and ordered in a bunch of pizzas! Not to mention, we had a lot of work to do on those 12 bottles of wine!
Already looking forward to next year!
xo
LOVE!
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