Friends

So, I just finished reading my friend Betsy's blog and she had a really good post on there about making time for other people in your life, and letting them know how much they mean to you.

Well, it seems like forever since my really good friends and I hung out recently. Now, I have to be fair and say a decent amount of that time has to be attributed to a certain 4 month old boy, but I need to be better about just hanging out.

With that said, we are not getting the response that we used to get from people about hanging out either. Reading between the lines, I would say that people think that because you have a kid that you must WANT some time alone. They are of course correct, but with that goes also the need for adult interaction, too.

We went out with one of my work vendors the other night. He is from England, and a good bloke, and his wife is really pleasant and the four of us get along great. They have a six year old boy who had a sitter, but we brought jack along. Jack was perfectly well behaved, and a great kid. We went to an Indian place that neither couple had been to before and the whole experience was very pleasant. We were talking during dinner and actually came to realize that it was the first actual restaurant dinner we had been out to since Jack was born! Four months!! Of course, that doesn't count the odd jaunt to Baja Fresh or something like that, but it was so weird to suddenly realize that we were not getting out as much as we used to.

Like I was previously mentioning, we have several friends who don't come round as often either. Family commitments, children, injuries (!!) are all part of it, but we need to make a concerted effort to hang out more. I have created a 'guy' room now in the house which will has a pool table, a dart board, TV's and such. It is in the old garage so it is colder, but also has the ability to be rougher, and hence an ideal place for guys to hang out. We have the old couch etc in there and it will serve very well in the summer. As soon as I get a heater out there too it will be really nice!

Tomorrow, we are hanging out with Ryan and Kimber, too. They just got back from their honeymoon in Italy and we are going to see some pics of that which will be cool. Not sure where we are going, but it will have to be kid-friendly. Either way, that will be another opportunity just to get out and about.

So anyway, for those of you reading who used to hang out....we have a kid...not a disease!! Come on round. We miss you. Either that or we are just going to start crashing your place!!