166: SV community

I can't say enough about how much I love the community that we have found here. I feel so SO lucky to be a part of such an amazing group of people. Everyone is so nice, so friendly, so genuine, and so accepting. I'm not sure that I have ever felt so much at home, especially when I've actually been away from my home and family. While I'm excited that we get to go to the beach for the summer, I'm honestly a little bummed that we won't be here to hang out with everyone in the best weather of the year.

This morning a few of us got together in the community room for another workout - this time it was to one of Jillian Michaels' "shred it" videos. The kids were running around, ocassionally joining in an exercise or two, having snacks, and playing much more independently than last time which allowed us to do more of the video (still only probably about 60%, but that's much more than last time where they were hanging all over us, crying, arguing, blah blah blah). Afterwards, Abbey suggested that we do a potluck dinner since we had the room for the rest of the evening. We invited a couple more girls and their families, we all made a little something to bring, Kinsley picked out a couple of kids' movies to bring, and we had a great time. I sincerely enjoy the company of all of these people. We ended up having seven families in total. The kids decided on Madagascar for their movie. I think that was just what I needed for the evening. Some real adult interaction while the girls were able to run around with their friends. I wish I had brought my camera because the kids did so amazingly and were so cute together. I did have my phone, but only one picture left ...

Not that she ever does with two older sisters, but Baby Rosey was definitely not starving for attention :)

 It was a very last-minute deal, but it was such a fun evening. I hope we have many more of these to come.