The Welcome Wagon!

If you have been reading my blog for awhile you know my old neighborhood was not very Gay friendly. In fact, they down right hated us! But, things are much different in the new neighborhood.

As we were moving in the lady behind our house (we sit on a corner at an odd angle so our next door neighbor is more behind our house than beside it) was on her porch with her two beautiful dogs and made small talk through my window. She was so nice. We talked about our dogs, my kids, and the neighborhood. I thought it was a nice start to a new neighborhood.

The weather has been getting nicer and we have been out more. We walk the dogs a lot and have had no issues with people (teenage boys with too much free time) shouting rude things or making threats. In fact, neighbors have come out and made small talk as we pass.

Yesterday, was a beautiful day. We headed to the park a block from our house and watched the kids play. They know a lot of the kids as they go to school with them. We met some of the other parents are were once again impressed with just how nice everyone was. One family even sent their number home with my youngest so we could arrange “play dates”. I was so excited. Could we have finally found just the right spot for this couple of Luppies? (Luppie….a Lesbian Yuppie….my very own creation!)

Then the most amazing thing happened. We were sitting down watching TV. Talking about how much fun we had at the park when the doorbell rang. The last time the doorbell rang and it wasn’t a friend coming to visit it was an old neighbor telling me someone had spray painted horrible stuff on my garage. So, who was this new person, in the neighborhood knocking at my door….and were they coming with words of kindness?? It was one of our new neighbors we had yet to meet. And they had a gift. A welcome to the neighborhood gift! Can you believe it? And she talked and told us about her and her husband. She got to know us and we invited her and her hubby for dinner next week. When we went back inside we opened our gift. Many different kinds of chocolate covered strawberry's. I am in heaven!! She owns her own business in chocolate! (The best kind of neighbor to have lol!!) Check out her site at www.chocolatelegacy.com

I love our new home. We have been painting and decorating and it just has all turned out really well. I wasn’t sure I would get to a point where I could start to heal over the things that happened in our old neighborhood. However, I have.
Sometimes bad things happen. But with those moments can come the current we need to get to a much better place in our life. When a storm rolls in we dread having to get in the rain and wind. But that fresh air smell, the feel of warm sunshine on our skin, and chirping birds after it….can be an amazing moment. I weathered the storm.