Old Friends & New Friends

I've had the fortune of reconnecting with an old friend. We connected in high school the first time. She was one of my sidekicks for doing church music. We enjoyed clowning around together - literally, we were in a clown troop. We wrote a song together. We performed twice in the state fair together. We gallivanted through Europe together. Then, distance and time separated us.

Now, over the past year and a half, she's adopted a 5 year old son from Kazakhstan, gotten married, lived over an hour from her husband while fulfilling her teaching contract and living the single mom life, and gotten pregnant. She has finally been able to move her family to one house... a house closer to ME!!!

We haven't really been able to meet Andre, her son, as we wanted him to adapt to his new language, new family, new life. Now that they are living so close, we're barging on into his life!

Yesterday we spent the day at the Children's Museum with him - the kids crawled through caves, discussed dinosaurs, peered at the planetarium, and cavorted on the carousel.

Today we went to their home for a play date. We were greeted by five chickens. It took the kids a while to get out of the car because, I suppose the chickens must have seemed six feet tall to them. Thomas has just held a baby chick days before. He didn't even want to let it go.

Never fear, the gracious host Andre to the rescue! He chased the chickens away when he discovered what was going on. By the end of the afternoon, Veronica and Thomas were thrilled to gather an egg and watch the chickens eat what was leftover from their lunch.

The kids hit it off again. Quite comfortable with each other. Comfortable enough to close themselves into a stuffy tent and "camp" in the heat!

I'm excited to pick up where we left off and embark on new adventures with Jill - and our families!!