**Weekend Update**

Matty came home from work last night to find me curled up in a ball on the couch, bemoaning my outcast state.  He immediately knew what was on my mind and tried to make me feel better by saying that all the girls were asleep in London and therefore I wasn't missing out on anything.

I looked at the clock and laughed; it was 5:30 pm EST/10:30 pm London time.  Asleep?  Yeah, right - not my girls.  As a matter of fact, I had just finished texting with Karen and Abs and Gmailing with Yol while they were at dinner; I told him nice try but he would have to do better than that.

And so he did.

He sat down on the couch and told me that in just a few months, when springtime rolled around and Bebe was out in the world, he would send me abroad for a girls weekend and gladly stay with the baby or I could take her with me.

I have the world's greatest husband and yes, I'm going to take him up on that offer... especially after the text message I woke up to this morning from Abs, saying that she that she had some news and "was on the water for the girls weekend".

At first, I thought that meant that the girls were out rowing or boating on the Thames (Abs was huge into rowing for a while) instead of shopping (shocking!) so I fired off a quick text asking which they were doing.  Her return text began with an LOL and continued to say that what she meant was that she was off the wine.

That's when my mind began to spin... I fired back, asking for what reason and this is what she returned:

"the same reason as you!"

Abs is pregnant!!!! 

I burst into happy tears and screamed for Matt to come back to the bedroom.  He was super excited, too, and told Bebe that she was going to have a Scottish bff, just like her mom.  That began a long series of texts back and forth across the pond (to the tune of 25 cents each - incoming and outgoing) between me and all of the girls until we exhausted our pointer fingers and thumbs.

It meant the world to me that the girls "kept in text" with me all weekend without knowing how much I needed it.  They don't read my blog often or if ever (Karen tries to keep up but Abs and Heather and Yol are not Internet addicted like I am and prefer conversations in real time ) so it's not like they read yesterday's post and were prompted to show me extra extra attention this weekend.

I can't believe that Abs and I are going to have babies together; because our group friendship began when most of us were single gals and our thoughts were far from babies, I was so nervous about being the first. Having a partner in motherhood is the best news I could have received this weekend.

Hmm, Abs and I are 5 months apart in our pregnancies... now, if the rest of the girls could just follow suit, beginning with Yol and Lindsay, then Karen, and then Heather... well, that would be just about perfect!