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The best kind of friends?

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The ones where you are texting about nothing important at 4:30 on a Sunday and you think it’s such a nice day it would be great to have dinner outside and have a fire and why not invite your friends? And they say great, we’ll bring ribs, corn, and hot dogs—and I say perfect, we have beans and alcohol, see you at 6:30! We did a quick 20-minute pick up so they could get in the house, threw another rack of ribs in the sous vide to heat up, and that was it!

All the kids were super excited and we barely saw them all night! We had fun around the fire, ending the night with a few fireworks and s’mores.

A successful play date!

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My new friend that I met at the playground (LOL) invited us over today so that was right after the orthodontist. They live in a new subdivision in a huge new house and it really made me miss our new houses… And yes, I told her I kind of hated her a little bit. 🙂

The kids all got along—even with Katie! They jumped on the trampoline, played Xbox for a bit, played Legos, had snacks, then played board games.

Anna was really impressed since she said normal playdates only last about 20-30 minutes before one of the boys is done. So apparently Owen and Katie are magic.

Her husband happened to come home early and he was just as great and easy to chat with as she is and we had a great time. I can’t wait for them to meet Tom!

Oh, and you know how I said it was weird how similar we were? Look what she has?

We have the same exact secretary. I have only ever seen one other of these in person and it was at antique store. Bizarre. (Truth be told, I might like ours better if it looked like this. In its current state it is NOT my style.)

The time flew and suddenly it was 3 hours later…

PTA playdate at the new playground

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Katie’s school (Owen’s old school) got new playground equipment so the PTA had a playdate there. They do this playdate every year before school starts so hopefully the kids can find other people in their grade and make friends before school starts (each grade wears a different color shirt).

We ran into friends right when we got there…

And then I made a friend, too! It was really hot so I eventually sat on the bench next to another mom and we started chatting and just totally hit it off! We had lots in common (she just moved here, she’s an editor/graphic designer, we have the same sense of humor) and our boys hit it off, too (she has twin fifth graders). I was super excited to say the least.