"PRESERVING THOSE GIRL POWER MOMENTS"
For the past seven years, three of my girlfriends and I have spent President's Day weekend at a mountain cabin in Island Park, Idaho, cross-country skiing, snow-shoeing, snowmobiling and snow boarding. We pack all kinds of junk food—Ding Dongs and Diet Coke are a must—and bring a box of DVDs (usually at least one or two featuring George Clooney).
Each year, we get a little older and the mountain seems to get a little steeper. In the past seven years there have been career changes, surgeries, a wedding and babies, but our friendship and tradition has endured. One woman even made it a condition of her engagement that her fiancée understand and support her participation in our annual getaway.
This yearly trip is more than recreational. It's therapeutic. It allows us to reflect on what has been and share inspiration for the future.
This year, I captured the spirit and memories of our past adventures in the accordion-style Family Fold Out card, and I made a copy for each girl. I can't tell you how thrilled they were to have their very own heirloom!
Throughout the weekend, each of them periodically unfolded their copy, gazed again at the pictures, and re-lived those moments.
Now, home from another one of our action-packed weekends, I am once again a quiet, mild-mannered office worker. But with the family-fold card on my desk, I now have hard evidence of my bold, adventurous self
.—E. Black
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