You're gonna love this. Remember the "Good Grief Gator" post--the one with our friends' moving van? (You can click here if you don't.) Here's the rest of the story.
When these friends sold their house, they noticed the buyers only lived about two blocks away from us. We knew who they were because their son had played baseball with Ben. So they moved out of our neighborhood.
On the first day of school Ben came home and told us about Colin. He was a new kid at school. He thought he would like to play with Colin. He had noticed that Colin rides his bus. (You know where this is going, don't you? Wait, it gets better!) Lee and Ben biked by on Saturday to check out our hunch that he was the new neighbor, and sure enough, there he was. Better yet, he also had a first grade sister, and very friendly parents. A matching family! (In fact, our matched kids were born just days apart from one another.) The kids and their mom just left after a nice visit. I didn't dare ask if they play dominoes...
I love Maria's quote from the reverend mother in the Sound of Music: "Whenever God closes a door, He always opens a window." Thanks, Lord, for this open window!
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