The other day while I was reading content on one of my favorite sites I stumbled upon an article called, "Coffee Chat with LaLa Anthony". Because Carmelo Anthony is one of my top five favorite basketball players, I have taken to keeping up with his wife's television shows and whatever info I might read about the couple. This was no different. I read the article, however un-coffee-chat-like it may have seemed (the story just didn't feel conversational) and it occurred to me that I love a Coffee Chat!! Having a name for it made it all the more fun.
Typically, my Mom and I will have coffee and chat on the phone about nothing and everything. It was easier last school year when the kids were off to school a bit earlier, but we still do what we can when we can. My parents will be working on a missions assignment in Congo for two years beginning at the end of this year, and these Coffee Chats will be so very missed.
Other times, when my best friend is off on Mondays, we will meet at a coffee shop for our own version of a Coffee Chat. We typically make sure everyone in our household is doing well and find out about their goings on. Then we get to our own personal stuff and from there, who knows where it will head! Our Coffee Chats can last up to four hours - in which case Babe wonders what on Earth we have to talk about for so long - but that time with my besty is time well-spent. It's better than therapy for me because she knows me. She needs no back story on my 'issues', she knows my quirks well enough to know why my 'issues' are my 'issues'. This is the kind of friend who knows my silly personality well enough to know how to make me laugh when really, all I want to do is cry.
If more people engaged in Coffee Chats, the world just might be a better place. In my world, I know that the women closest to me are all-in for some girl time, laughter, even the not-so-pretty stuff when we can sit down together for something as simple as a cup of coffee.
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