nice coincedence-- day 4

When a person goes to look at a house, it is impossible to really get a good feel of the neighborhood. You need to sleep in a house and sit on the porch for a week but real estate agents don't let you do that. After we bought our house we soon discovered we are surrounded by some serious neighbors. Cops cars, screaming, cop chases, domestic abuse and I won't even mention the fourth of July incident. It can be summarized to say there is just yelling from all sides of the house, all hours of the day and night. It is the soundtrack of our home and mildly frustrating at times. But I prefer the life and personality of living in the city opposed to the suburban house hiding. But after almost two years of living in our house our interactions with neighbors seem to be only as the occasion separator of fights. It's hard to pull myself from my suburban house hiding tendencies.  I've been praying for some common ground and that we could be friends with our neighbors who seem to be from another planet at times.

Old brick houses in the summer are like actual furnaces so everyone has been outside doing anything possible to stay cool. The blow up kiddie pool across the street was calling to me so I slapped a good swimmer diaper and sun hat on Jovi and there we were all afternoon. I don't want to negatively describe my neighbors, it is sufficient to say they really just yell all the time. But after some kiddie pool banter, my neighbor and I discovered we are gonna be good friends. We have almost the same birthday and we both turned 30 this year. We talked about how sad that day was and then immediately talked about something else. We shared how hard it is to be on one income but how much harder it is to imagine someone else getting paid to love our kids all day. She has a family member who is obsessed with King Charles Cavaliers, like me. She said she secretly loves my little dog and would love a puppy after I mentioned Bridget could have babies soon. We chatted all afternoon. This isn't a huge shocking coincidence but more the obvious repercussions of what happens when someone crosses the street and sits in someone else's backyard. But we just easily found so much in common and sometimes that takes a long time in conversations with a stranger.  I am just really thankful and excited to know my neighbors better and maybe have a new house soundtrack instead of daydreaming about house hiding out in the woods or burbs somewhere.