Shirley, Linda, & Me - Summer 2008Have I told you about my great neighbors?
We moved in two years ago in March, and a few days later Chris and Linda (our immediate next door neighbors) showed up at our door with brownies. Shirley and Mark moved back into their house two houses down that August.
We have fun with our neighbors, you need neighbors like them too. We've done a progressive dinner, poker nights (I'm trying to get them to start wagering stuff like candy, cookies, or acts of service, i.e. lawn mowing, weeding, dinner - no high rollers in this group), we do girls night out, helped each other out with kids, or cups of sugar, go shopping together, we walked together last year, Linda started spinning with me, and other fun things like camping has been on the agenda for a while... Last year I had an anniversary dinner to celebrate our one year of being neighbors. "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood..." was on the front of the invitation. Rolls of toilet paper were the favors (first year gift is paper).
This is the sweetest... I came home a few days after my mom's funeral to find Chris mowing our lawn. Isn't that the nicest thing ever? Linda and Shirley also bought me some beautiful azaelas. Then, while I was in Hawaii, Shirley's son mowed our lawn! They thought John looked so tired from watching the kids for so long, and knew he hadn't had a chance to do it, so they mowed our lawn! (I told them even if they mowed it because they were embarrassed our grass was so tall, I still appreciated it!!!) They have done other random acts of kindness too! Also, because my kids are the youngest I benefit from great hand-me-down toys. My other neighbors immediately next to us occassionally weed eat around some of our house, usually always around the sand box. (John has had a weed eater for one year, and never used it, because it won't work for some reason, it may be an operator error...) They also gave us all of their old Disney movies for Trevan, and some shelves they were going to throw away to use for my business. They are so nice too. Three houses up is a couple who go to the same church as us, so it's fun to have even more friendly faces on the street. Our neighbor across the street is a painter and he helped John paint our stairwell that was too high for John to paint.
Seriously, I have the best neighbors. They aren't allowed to move, unless I do first, then they have to move where I do.
Don't you want to be our neighbor?
5 comments:
i am jealous! sounds like you got lucky. our immediate neighbors aren't that friendly and never leave their house. But the people we meet when walking the dogs are great!
I'm crossing my fingers to one day have awesome neighbors too.
Also crossing my fingers that you move next door and make all of my good neighbor dreams come true!
Aaawww.. you are so sweet, we love you and don't know what we would do without you Ms. Holly. We are just as lucky to have such wonderful neighbors as you and John and Mark and Shirley! We wouldn't change it for the world.
Big hugs to you!
becky, if you don't move so far away, maybe our neighbor dreams could come true... :)
Linda you can not move!!!
we have some great neighbors but they are all much older than us. then we have one crazy neighbor next door to us that is the same age but she is too crazy to for a GNO.
so you are very lucky!!
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