And hearing great tunes!
Tonight we were invited to the high school basketball game. Just like that. Day six and already we are folded into invitations for basketball games and ice cream afterwards. Life is very different here.
Back east, as I've decided to call our former life, it felt like we weren't good enough to be invited to things. Oh, we'd hear all about the dinner dates with groups and basketball games and even the joint vacations. Rarely, if ever, did we get invited.
The hubs and I used to sit and wonder what it was about us that made us so uninvitable (yes, I'm very aware I just made up a word lol). We only lived 45 minutes from our church. We drove it all the time so clearly we would make the drive if asked. But, it always seems like people didn't want to drive to where we were either. Almost like we lived in a foreign country. Dude, it was Indiana not Afghanistan.
We made plans with friends for dinners dates but more often than not people declined our invites out to Disser Manor. We often felt like the not thought of after thought.
Then we moved to a small town. And grant it, we are the shiny new toy in the kindergarten room, something tells me the invites won't stop. I'm kinda looking forward to it. I want to be enveloped into the community. I want to feel apart of all the things.
And then Cait gets invited to the dance by a bunch of friends. Just like that. Jer and I were hesitant. I mean she's the really pretty, shiny, sweet new toy in the toy box so we're worried about kids taking advantage of that. We've both been the new kid more than enough times to know just how kids really can be.
But, maybe that's the perk small town life. Things move loads slower. Everything is five minutes away. Seven of more than two cars are at a stop sign. Days stretch longer. Everybody knows everybody. Everybody calls you friend. (If you know the one reference, we can definitely be friends)
Day six of the new year was a good one. Today was a good day.
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