Ok, so this is my third post in less than a week thats come up after midnight 🙂 Please forgive me! Take it as a sign that my life is good and full of love and friends, and that I am truly happy.
My other half, Hailey, and I decided a while ago that we needed to finally spend some quality time together, instead of running into each other by accident. So she and her husband and two boys came over for dinner tonight. I was so excited! I think I’ve laid out our history on here before, but the brief rundown is that I added her on Facebook 6 years ago because we had the same name and we’ve gotten frightfully close since then. We are shockingly similar, and tonight was a little twilight zoney even!
Brady and I prepped for the visit pretty much all day, haha! I honestly have dropped the practice of cleaning my house like crazy when people are coming over, because I really feel like people who are going to judge me based on the cleanliness of my house can eat my shorts, but the layer of dust in the corners of our rooms, and the week worth of dishes in the kitchen, and the suitcases still packed from the weekend, we figured we needed a tidy. So we got up and put the corn chowder in the crock pot first thing, and then tackled everything else. We sure didn’t get everything done, but it looked better than before, thats for sure! One little product endorsement is for those Scrubbing Bubble Toilet Cleaning gel pump things. They are amazing and everyone should use them. That is all.
I made my chocolate dipped, cheesecake filled strawberries in the afternoon and ran a few over to the neighbours. Felt very “Suzy Homemaker” 🙂 I even snuck in a shower before our company came.
What a great evening we had! We had soup and biscuits for dinner, and then moved downstairs so their four year old could blow off some steam in a bigger space with better toys. When the boys went upstairs to get dessert, we decided they were banished for a while, and Hailey and I got in some solid girl talk. Both of us have had similar experiences with friends coming and going, and for that reason, neither of us ever grew up with many girl friends, but turns out we click surprisingly well! And while we were having a great chat (which has been a loooo0ong time coming!) we could hear our husbands bantering about work and such upstairs, as if they’d known each other longer than a few hours as well. It was perfect. Felt like we’ve known each other forever!
When the boys were starting to really fade, we realized it was about 11:30! Time never dragged once, it whipped by in my opinion anyway. We had such a fabulous time! And if you’re reading and you don’t really care about my evening date with my friends, thats fine, but take this tidbit if you will:
Whether you’re married single, with kids or not, whatever life situation you find yourself in, find a few people that are in your same boat, and make relationships. Seriously! I’m not saying to leave out the people who don’t fit your mould, but I think its super important to nurture relationships with people in your same stage of life. You won’t realize its value until you have it, I promise! It is such a gift to have people you can relate to on so many levels! We are so lucky to have the friends that we have.
Hope our friends make it home safe, without any wildlife smeared across the front of their SUV. Rooting for you guy!!