Grilling

Have a barbecue to go to this afternoon.  It's with a couple my husband met through the internet, and their son loves our son.  I'm kind of neutral on the parents.  They seem nice enough, but they bicker, and the husband started to badmouth my hometown before I changed the subject.  I hope I'm not being immature about it, but it's quite a turnoff when someone does that.  It's not like we left home because we didn't like it, we left because we had job opportunities elsewhere.  I still miss home like crazy.  It's a great place to live and grow up, and quite frankly, my son is missing out by growing up here.  But I digress . . .

So I'm not excited about going, but hopefully it will be fun anyway.  Just watch the kids enjoy themselves.  And tomorrow we have company coming over to our place.  It's a couple and their 2 kids we feel a lot closer to--so far.  We don't know them too well yet.  But it's nice to meet some other southerners like us.  It should be fun.  I'm excited to have them over, for yet even more barbecue, and to have the boys play, especially since one of their boys seems like he might be gifted like my son is, and maybe they can relate well.  And it's nice to have friends who "get" you, and who understand the whole marriage-kids dynamic that a lot of people I've met here just don't understand.  Hopefully we'll get along, and hopefully we can become close, if it works out.  I'm just hoping for some close friends here, finally.

So even though I qualify everything with potential for disappointment, I'm actually pretty optimistic.  Looking forward to tomorrow and the potential for friendships.  And my son has his pinewood derby going on with the cub scouts tomorrow, too, which he is excited about.  He probably won't do well, since it was his first attempt at building a car, and it was a little bit light and the wheels are a bit crooked.  But he's excited, and who knows?  Maybe he will surprise us!  Should be fun.

Next week is our court date, for the small claims case we are defendants in.  Then WE will be grilled.  At least it will finally be over, one way or another.  Looking forward to the week after, honestly.  Nervous as all heck.    But then we'll know how broke we'll be.  Could be worse, I suppose.  Could have been regular court, instead of small claims.  Could have had to pay over $1000 for medical bills last month.  Maybe things will go our way?  Still nervous, but trying to be realistic.

That's it for now.  Lots of uncertainties, but potential for good things.  That's good.  Talk again.  :)