i just spent the most incredible weekend celebrating St. Paddy’s Day in Chicago with friends from college, and per usual, left feeling lighter and filled with so much love!!!

it felt like we were back in college on a fraternity formal, and they made me laugh so hard that i’m convinced five years were added to my life.

highlights included hearing about everyone’s lives, getting (non-deep dish) pizza, seeing Chicago’s architecture via boat, going to a karaoke bar, and spending the entirety of Saturday together in green.

trips like these make me realize how important it is to have joy be a consistent part of the day-to-day. i feel like i don’t laugh even half as much as i did a couple of years ago. and i believe a large contributing factor is because i no longer get to see these lovely people on a daily basis!!

the comedown of such a fun weekend has included PSYCFD (post-seeing-your-college-friends-depression) and a mean case of goopy throat (a cough that you don’t want to know the details of).

and as if the theme of the week wasn’t already green, Emma and I coincidentally showed up to our FaceTime in the same pair of pjs.

*side note – we got these for Christmas from GAP, and they’ve come out with an adorable iteration for summer!*

it’s weekends like these that remind me how lucky I am to have friendships that feel like home — no matter how much time passes, we pick up right where we left off.

💘, Hanna