Dinner as nomads
Today we were with friends. The kids really like this particular group of kids, which makes having 7 kids in one house relatively easy! Our hostess was incredibly kind and made us a hot breakfast before all the kids shuffled off to their kid things. Our girls went with them to Vacation Bible School while Judah discovered that it was trash day and spent a bit of time chasing the truck. He was appalled that the trash man spilled an entire bin of trash on the ground. That has convinced him that our new trash trucks at home are a wise use of funds. He is very opinionated about the matter of trash trucks.
When all the kids and adults gathered again, we took the kids to the community pool. 
By that time I was convinced that we would buy a house in Fort Collins before leaving town the next day! First, there were bikes lining the front of the community pool. Not just bikes, cargo bikes! And there were moms with more than one kid in their cargo 
hauler along with all the swimming gear. Second, many people came on foot. These were not people who came by foot out of compulsion. They walked because they WANTED to walk! Third, our friends kept running into people they knew at the pool. This was not an HOA pool, or an apartment complex pool. This is a truly a community pool anyone can join, and really interesting people join it, including our friends!
And these are really unique friends. These are friends who don*t make you feel like some appendage to your husband, or some kind of domestic help tagging along. These are people who get it that some things are serious in life, and other things are not. These friends struggle through the journey of religious practice just like we do, and who, like us, and not content to settle for what is common or easy. These are the kinds of friends we want to live next to. But buying a house in an day on the basis of yearning is impractical and unwise, for some reason I have not thought a lot about (but it must be true, right?), so we satisfied ourselves with searching Zillow while the kids swam.
What a fun pool!
The kids swam until dinner time.
Later, Kiki said, *Thank you for not making us eat vegan for dinner!* Oh my!
What men do when women sew.
After dinner, we went on a tour of Fort Collins Old Town, in case we needed any more convincing that dropping our savings on a house immediately is a great idea.
The icing on the cake for this day was helping with making a skirt for the big sister of the house. I was overjoyed to have such a project, way more overjoyed than my friend, I think, and I got to wallow in getting sewing machines up and running, I played around with a vintage Kenmore, got some sewing in, and was just thinking how awesome it was to hang out while all our kids slept when I realized it was midnight and some people in the house had work in the morning!
What kids do while women sew
Well, that ended that fun.
Sara sewing, and doing a beautiful job of it!
The skirt was finished, and we all went to bed. (I think Sara might have believed the adventure would never end, but she was a good sport the entire time, and was a wonderful student!)
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