Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

My friend is coming today for a short visit, and it's been a while since we saw each other.  It was last May.  We used to visit each other, but now we usually plan a trip and do that instead.  However, she has been a champ about attending my kids' weddings and before that graduations and such.  I attended her son's wedding, but I've got three more kids than she does so she ends up doing the lion's share of traveling for events.  And in the fall we have the final kid's wedding here, so once again, she stands in as aunt and sister and best friend.  I appreciate it and her, and I'm going to remember to tell her today.  At least this time, her purpose is another's friend's birthday, so I benefit when she visits that friend as well, because she'll be here and then drive there for the event and visiting the town where she lived until she retired.  Gratitude.  I must remember to express it, and not just think it.