The new place we call home

Although I still feel a little dull ache sometimes for our old home we are really happy with our new house and neighborhood. We noticed a difference immediately in the new neighborhood. In our old neighborhood we would wave at people as we drove by and sometimes they would literally just turn away. We only met a couple of our old neighbors and one that we talked to said they had been living their for 30 years and didn't even know most people's names! Crazy. We wanted something different this time around so we decided that we would take the first opportunity we had with each neighbor to introduce ourselves.

This worked amazingly well and most of the time we didn't even have to initiate. The young couple right next door came over to meet us! The older couple on the other side was very friendly and brought their grandson over to play the first week. We already knew two families, etc. We feel connected here already and it's been 3 weeks.

We want to make some treats for our neighbors and write a letter to introduce ourselves so hopefully we will be able to get that done in the next week or so. We also try to say hi to people who are out when we take walks. Hopefully this can be a friendly neighborhood and we can continue to feel like we belong here!