Grabbing the Moments

It would have been so easy to head home tonight, I had plenty of justifiable reasons to do just that.  It has been an incredibly busy week and my days, normally long, have stretched even longer this week.  Tired and tired of changing clothes yet again for the fourth setting of the day, I wanted to go home.  I wanted to crawl into my pajamas and curl up with my dogs, shutting the world out.  I was too tired to even feel excited about seeing old friends, friends I had not seen in way too long.  
The rational side of myself knew that as much as I longed for the comfort of my jammies, I would regret not going and would miss out on a great time.  
My rational side was completely correct and even though I was caught yawning a few times, it was an amazing time.  I laughed until my stomach hurt, my face hurt and I was tired from laughing.  I walked away feeling incredibly blessed and grateful to have such incredible people in my life, people I get to call friends and people who I love to spend the moments with.  I could have used a little more sleep, and maybe a healthier dinner. But the memories and laughter from last night, the love of friendship will get me  through being tired today and was so very worth it.