I always have grandiose plans of meeting all my neighbors shortly after moving in by bringing them a freshly-baked-something and this opening the doors to us being great neighbors. This of course, turns the neighborhood into a friendly community and we all get along splendidly and have block BBQs in the summer.
Well.
It's been 2 years.
This past week I introduced myself to the first neighbor that 1) does not share yardspace and a laundry room with me, and 2) does not go to church with me.
And in exchange for some freshly baked cookies, I got fresh figs off her tree! She's already learned my children's names by heart, invited us into her home, thinks it's great I'm a full-time mom, and smiles whenever we see her.
So the freshly-baked-something tack does seem to work. It helps that I have dang cute kids, too.
2 comments:
I'm glad to see i'm not the only one that thinks I'll get to know all the neighbors within a week and that we will all be ultra-uber-chummy.
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Ah. So that's how we got to talking about figs!
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