The lowest level are front yard friends, those that you see in the yard and say hello and that is it. Minimal conversation and very superficial relationship.
Then there are foyer friends, those that come in the front door but conversation is news / weather level. They really don't fully come into the home.
Next are living room friends, they come in sit down and talk a while. The relationship is a bit deeper.
Then the deepest level of friendship is the kitchen friend. They come in and sit down at the table with you in the kitchen where the life of the family is. These friends have a cup of coffee or tea, grab a bite to eat and the conversation is very deep and the friendship is very close.
Our kitchen is where life happens for us. It is where we spend time as a family every day as we try to eat together every night and the kids all have breakfast together every morning. It is where we have talked to our kids. Where our kids have sat with their friends. It is where we have played countless games of canasta and Texas Train Dominoes with our friends. It is where we have shared many meals with close friends. It is where we spend time with our boys when they are home.
We are blessed to have a number of kitchen friends and are thankful when they come over and share a meal with us and chat around the kitchen table. This weekend we took it to the next level. We are currently in the process of repainting all our kitchen cabinets and trim and to say the least the kitchen is a bit of a mess. So what does my loving wife do, she decides we need to cook a turkey that we have in the freezer and that two of our good friends that are single moms who have each adopted 2 daughters from China should come over to spend the evening with us and that each of them needed to bring their mothers along. We dearly love these two ladies, their daughters and their mothers and were so thankful for the time together. They came in jumped right into the kitchen to help get things ready no body even cared about the messy construction, the missing cabinet doors etc. and we had a great time of fellowship and food, the girls played together, watched a movie and just hung out for a few hours.
So I believe that the saying about kitchen friends is very true and I am thankful for friends that are close enough to come into our under construction kitchen and share a meal with us.
In other news yesterday was the 6 month anniversary of meeting Shaun in China. 6 months have flown by. We have seen Shaun mellow out a lot, he has grown taller, stronger, his face has filled out a lot. He is still a bit behind on talking but can name most of the family, is constantly saying Mom or Dad. He loves us paying attention to him. Overall he is a mommy's boy but he loves for daddy to be the one to help him with eating. He still can be a stinker and get into lots of things but he has also learned to sit down and play and not constantly be on the move. I believe he is going to have great sense of humor, if you ask him his name he will look at you, smile and say Rar ra (Laura) and then just laugh at you. He absolutely loves to go bye bye and hates it if either of us go anywhere without him. We are thrilled that he is part of our family and love watching him learn and grow.
We are blessed to be his parents and are so thankful that we were able to bring him into our family.
Well back to painting and completing the project at hand.
A little look at part of the kitchen that is done. Imagine this side Sunday night with no doors and partially painted.
If you don't have many Kitchen friends I encourage you to invite a friend over, have a cup of tea and a snack and turn a foyer relationship into a living room or kitchen relationship. You will be thankful that you did.
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