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Oct. 17th, 2004 04:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckLast weekend, Scott and I had our new neighbors over for dinner. It was a pleasant experience for us (and I hope, for them as well). Delia wasn't really sure what to make of another toddler in her space, but things never got really tense. The other couple seem to be nice people, and they didn't show any surprise or discomfort on seeing our DVD collection or GURPS books (our scarier gaming books are in storage till Delia's older and we have time to play again). I had been a little concerned because we knew nothing much about their background, so we couldn't guess if they'd consider role playing, anime and the like as interesting hobbies, eccentricities, or signs of possible moral corruption. (It's a question that comes up whenever we socialize with people we don't much know, but we've always previously been in a position to ignore the occasional people who find us morally dubious. We don't have that luxury with the neighbors who have kids Delia's age. We're all kind of stuck with each other.)
The visit was good practice for Monday when we hosted playgroup for the first time. Then, she ran around quite a bit trying to assert ownership over her toys and books. Every time someone else finished looked at a book, she brought it to me so I could read it to her. I think that it was a good start on teaching her to share and that hosting again will go further in that direction. We're almost certainly going to host again because the group's been having difficulty that way. Two of the families are trying to sell their houses, one has two large dogs and another a baby born in May. Up until I hosted, that left one family able to accommodate the group, so we'd been meeting at the public library, at parks and so on.
This afternoon, I plan to write up some sort of invitation for the other mothers of toddlers in the neighborhood to come over Friday morning. I was considering Tuesday, but I didn't get my act together to invite them. Two days seems inadequate notice. I'm going to do the written invitation because it's easier for me than using the phone would be. Not to mention that I don't really know one of the other mothers... With luck, we can set up a regular play group for the four kids so that we'll all have some sort of social contact once the weather gets really bad. I consider that particularly important for me and Delia because I suspect that bus trips will become more miserable as the weather gets colder (I still don't have a winter coat that fits, after all).
The visit was good practice for Monday when we hosted playgroup for the first time. Then, she ran around quite a bit trying to assert ownership over her toys and books. Every time someone else finished looked at a book, she brought it to me so I could read it to her. I think that it was a good start on teaching her to share and that hosting again will go further in that direction. We're almost certainly going to host again because the group's been having difficulty that way. Two of the families are trying to sell their houses, one has two large dogs and another a baby born in May. Up until I hosted, that left one family able to accommodate the group, so we'd been meeting at the public library, at parks and so on.
This afternoon, I plan to write up some sort of invitation for the other mothers of toddlers in the neighborhood to come over Friday morning. I was considering Tuesday, but I didn't get my act together to invite them. Two days seems inadequate notice. I'm going to do the written invitation because it's easier for me than using the phone would be. Not to mention that I don't really know one of the other mothers... With luck, we can set up a regular play group for the four kids so that we'll all have some sort of social contact once the weather gets really bad. I consider that particularly important for me and Delia because I suspect that bus trips will become more miserable as the weather gets colder (I still don't have a winter coat that fits, after all).
