Friday evening, Jen and Brian came over and we went out to dinner, and then after Matt and I got the kids tucked into bed, we sat around talking until nearly midnight. It was really quite lovely -- they're the kinds of friends that you fall in with immediately, even if you haven't seen them for a while, and we have this fantastic Venn diagram of interests that overlap significantly but not completely, so there's enough common ground to start a conversation, peppered with plenty of those wonderful "I never knew that" moments to keep it from being a rehash of things we all already know.
We're thinking of starting a small, once-a-month game, if we can settle on a system and a GM. I'm kind of excited -- it's been years since I was in a tabletop game, and as much as I love KT's email games, there's something visceral about being face-to-face with everyone and having to think up your responses on the fly.
Saturday we went down to Chesapeake to celebrate Kevin's birthday. That was wonderful, too, despite KT still feeling a little bit under the weather from a cold. Penny and Jess were thrilled to pieces to be together, we ate lots of wonderful food, and Alex was even reasonably cool, considering he'd only taken half a nap before we went.
And Sunday we went to my parents' house for an early Easter, since they're leaving this week for Cancun. We arrived just as my parents were finishing up hiding eggs in the yard for Penny and Alex, so it wasn't long before we were out there taking pictures and trying to get Alex to play along. (He was pretty game for the first four or five eggs, and then mostly lost interest.) But the weather couldn't have been any nicer, and we had both kids dressed in their Easter clothes that my folks had sent for them, so it was wonderful.
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