Good things
Watching Abby’s kids is easier than watching just my two because they’re keeping each other entertained. Thanks Abby! Thanks for loaning your kids and thanks for volunteering to make Obama our next president by helping out at the rally!!!
I used to think I couldn’t even bother to try to make friends with Abby because our kids didn’t match up right. See, when it comes to parent-friends, if your kids don’t match up right it’s not worth hanging out because the kids will just clash and make the grown-ups miserable. Abby’s daughters are two years younger than Noah and her youngest daughter is a year older than Madison. Age and gender, I assumed, would keep us apart.
But! Fortunately boys mature later than girls and Noah has never been hung up on gender as a prerequisite to friendship so eventually the big kids discovered each other and lo! A friendship was born. I believe video games is what brought them together but maybe it was Neopets. I can’t really remember.
Anyway, they are bestest friends now and Noah’s day isn’t complete without at least one speaker phone call with them.
Then Maya, her youngest, is willing to play with Madison (even though Maya is more mature — she is, I’m not being facetious) so that means both our big kids and our little kids happily playdate, which means the moms can playdate, too! Oh joy!
Now Kristen, I’ve know her for 11 years now — she was my La Leche League leader. I was at the first meeting she led solo (I remember they gave her a mug filled with chocolate to honor her new leaderhood the day I came). Her oldest, Jake, was then her only and he was two. I remember this because she said, “This is my son, Jake. He’s two and he is all of that!” meaning that he was the two-est two he could be. (This was true! Jake has always been the most Jake-est that he could be!) Noah was about eight months old. So there, too, I thought, well, I love Kristen and we’ll be friends but I won’t see much of her because our kids don’t match up right.
When Molly was born two years later, they still didn’t match but then Ginger came along about six weeks after Madison’s arrival and our daily friendship was cemented! And as it happens, the boys mature late thing works for us there, too, because Noah likes hanging with Molly now, which is something that didn’t happen until they both his these tween years. (I mean, they’ve known each other all of their lives but it’s only been this summer that Molly and Noah have had anything to say to each other and now they’ll happily spend the afternoon just hanging out.)
Becca asked where this spate of socializing came from and I wrote her back and explained it so I thought I’d explain it here. Although Thursday has always been Thursday because that’s when homeschool gym is and so there’s a lot of meeting up at parks after or trading kids or carpooling. And before THAT we used to have a rotating playdate at people’s houses and that happened to be on Thursdays, too.
I guess Thursdays are just my days. (And I like Thursday, too, because of the T and the R, which make it a nice purpley-green color in some stable but friendly serif font.)
Sorry, you are mistaken. Thursdays are a warm, chunky, chocolate milk brown. Like a Hershey’s bar. Duh.
Tha’s funny, because the t and r make it a purpley red colour for me. Though without the r the s would certainly bring it back towards green…
Aw, this post made me smile the whole time. I can’t remember what brought Noah and Lena and Liberty together at first, either, but I’m quite certain it was something electronic. Darn kids. I always thought Madison and Maya had a shot, though. What with both of them being so sweet and girly and precious. And inappropriate.
Hey, I just read an article on synesthesia (I didn’t click on your link until I’ve come back just now) and discovered that only about 5% of people have that colour-number/colour-letter (etc) association. How odd, I guess I just thought everyone did that.
Remember when you got Maddie and I was so overly pregnant that I frightened Brett, and we decided at that point that our kids would be best friends? Or maybe it was a couple of months later when we sat their completely opposite color, sizes next to each other on my couch to take photos of there funniness! I am so happy that all of my kids have really close friends that they really love. And that I do too!! I love you! God-you even went to comfest and missed a presidential debate for me! gush gush