If You Build It....

There didn't seem to be many kiddo's in our neighborhood. Prior to moving we were told by the neighbor I was emailing with that they were all over. Our section of the subdivision we live in has about 40 houses. Most of those houses have playsets in the backyard so we figured that there would be many kids all over. However, we weren't seeing them at first. Thinking if we didn't meet any this summer it wasn't a big deal (because there are so many people visiting) then when school started friendships would click - we let our minds move onto other things. On a drive one day I mentioned how creepy it would be to live right next to the corn. Some of the houses here back up directly to the field. Then you think about the movie "Children of the Corn" or "Signs" - yuck yuck yuck. BigGuy, however, pointed out that living near a field of corn could turn out to be our "Field of Dreams" - I did agree that was a positive take on living near corn although I am still quite happy that we live near the cows and not the corn. A few days later he built our new trampoline. Most of the way done with the building of it we had a knock at the door. Two of the neighborhood boys had come by to introduce themselves. They said that they saw the kids in the backyard and the trampoline and they thought it would be the neighborly thing to come and introduce themselves. It was very sweet. After that we joked that even if the corn was just a smidge around the corn our trampoline would be the field of dreams - since we built it they have come. We now have four kids in the neighborhood becoming friends.