The Kindness of an Overseas Delivery

"Where would you be without friends?  The people to pick you up when you need lifting?  We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family.  There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend.  Nothing."
~ Jennifer Aniston

My steadfast friend travels quite a lot for business and as luck would have it, she is traveling to where one of my other friends has recently moved -- literally, the other side of the world.  Without my asking, my steadfast friend offered to take anything we wanted to send to my other friend.  My children and I wrote notes and sent a couple of goodies, including roach tablets (which my overseas friend had been lamenting about not having after seeing her first cockroach).  My steadfast friend is making a couple of stops before she arrives where my other friend lives, so she will be carting around our gifts for about a week before they make it to their final destination.  Traveling these days is enough of a hassle without having extra stuff to drag around.  I was so incredibly touched by my steadfast friend's generous offer.  And no doubt my other friend will be delighted to have her best cockroach defense.