neighbors

We have lived in our house two years now and haven't made any kid friends in the neighborhood. It's an old, inner city neighborhood with sidewalks and lots of kids, but since we don't go to school or church actually IN the neighborhood, we haven't met kids, though we have tried a little. We do know a number of our adult neighbors and very much like the neighborhood in general, but the kid-friend thing has been lacking.

Last week a new family moved in across the street and I was heartened to see bikes and scooters on the front porch. It turns out they are a very nice Catholic-attachment parenting-homeschooling family, with three girls, ages 11, 9 and 17 months.

Tonight I chatted with the very nice parents while their kids and mine, plus my niece and nephew played like crazy in our house, the new neighbors' house and both yards, plus they all zoomed up and down the street on bikes, scooters and skates. They climbed trees and jumped rope and pulled the baby in a wagon up and down the sidewalk.

Then mine fell into an exhausted stupor after the neighbors left.

This is a most excellent development!